Mansfield Siding ROW Track Plans

Original date produced  c. 1906-1908.  Revised date 1920's.  ROW track plans for the Mansfield Siding area and section of track coming into Mansfield.  

Sheet 1 of 4
Mile Post 59

Sheet 2 of 4

Sheet 3 of 4
Start of siding and Mile Post 60

Sheet 4 of 4
Depot, engine wye and Standard Oil Company Spur

Waterville Railway Bridge at Douglas

Aerial photo of bridge location

This bridge wast located on the northeastern leg of the engine wye at Douglas.  Photo provided by the Skykomish Historical Society 

Steam Locomotive #299 parked at Douglas

Waterville Railway Co. Steam Locomotive #299 parked next to the Douglas Depot. Date unknown.  A 4-6-0 locomotive built for Fairhaven and Southern as #2; sold to Seattle and Montana Railroad and renumbered as #299 in 1898.  Great Northern Railway purchased it in 1907.  It was a class E-4 locomotive that GN then sold to the Waterville Railway Co. in Feb. of 1911.  It was retired in May of 1934 and scrapped in Jan. of 1935.  Here is a picture of this Steam locomotive plowing snow about 1914.  Another picture of it parked at the Waterville Depot with the Douglas County Courthouse in the background.

Inside the tunnel today

April 2009 pictures of the south portal end of the tunnel.  There is just enough of the tunnel exposed to peek in and see inside.

Waterville Railway Co. Track Alignment: Date unknown

Sheet 1 of 3

Sheet 2 of 3

Sheet 3 of 3

Blown up area of engine wye at Douglas

Blown up area of Waterville

The Wenatchee World: c. 1986

GNRY Blueprints dated 1968

1968 Great Northern Railway Blueprints of the sidings at Palisades, Alstown, Douglas, Supplee, Withrow, Touhey and Mansfield.

1 of 3 of Palisades
Bridge #7 in this sheet 

2 of 3 of Palisades 

3 of 3 of Palisades

1 of 3 of Alstown
Bridge #37.5 in this sheet

2 of 3 of Alstown

3 of 3 of Alstown

1 of 5 of Douglas
Bridge #40 in this sheet

2 of 5 of Douglas

3 of 5 of Douglas

4 of 5 of Douglas
Picture of the siding tracks 

5 of 5 of Douglas

1 of 4 of Supplee

2 of 4 of Supplee
Picture of boxcars on this siding in '84

3 of 4 of Supplee

4 of 4 of Supplee

Picture of this grade crossing in 2010

1 of 2 of Withrow

2 of 2 of Withrow

1 of 2 of Touhey

2 of 2 of Touhey

Bridge #42 in this sheet

1 of 6 of Mansfield
Picture of the switch area show in this sheet

2 of 6 of Mansfield

3 of 6 of Mansfield

4 of 6 of Mansfield
Engine wye

5 of 6 of Mansfield
Southern leg of the wye

6 of 6 of Mansfield

Picture of the end of the line back in '83 

The Spokesman-Review: August 5, 1948

Speeder Between Bridge #15 and #16

Area Map

Speeder parked in a rock cut between bridge #15 and #16 .  Bridge #15 is visible in the picture.  Looking on the down grade.  Picture taken March 8, 1986 by Ryan Reed.

Rock cut between bridge #15 and #16 looking on the up grade.  The rock cut on the right is the one Ryan was standing on when he took the picture of the speeder.  Nov. 2007 photo 21 years later.

Switching Action in Alstown

Locomotives switching with loaded boxcars at Alstown on the afternoon of October 28, 1983.  Another one from a post a while back.  Bridge #37.5 visible in both pictures.  Photos by John P. Henderson.   2009 photo of this area.  Here is a picture of the same train early in the morning of the same day on its way up the line.  And one more.

The Withrow Banner: Feb 6, 1914

"Last Train" orders

Orders dated March 1, 1985 for "Last Train" to run the MB Line the next day.

Bridge #25: A Difference of 26 years

March 8,1986 photo showing a speeder car at the north end of bridge #25 parked next to a little shack still wearing Great Northern paint.  The line had been abandoned almost exactly one year when this trip occurred.  Looking on the down grade.  Picture by Ryan Reed.  

May 2012 picture of the same location, except the above picture was taken on the other side of the rock cut.  Here is a April 2008 picture of the rock cut I was standing on when I took the above photo.  Looking on the down grade.  Here is a 2006 photo standing at the south end of bridge #25 looking on the up grade. 

The Republic: April 8, 1909

The Wenatchee World: June 16, 1988

Tunnel being sealed up on the abandoned MB Line

Here is a 2009 picture of the north portal entrance as shown in the above article.