So, just where in the west was this photo taken?
Jim - Lawton, NV MP 236
This one is the hardest yet. I’m kinda guessing but I’ll say CW switcher in Portola ?
Right outside the Diner! See the wood for our cookstove and the tracks? And the cab looks empty, cuz the are inside eating!
Moo
Chad,
Its not in California.
They were at beans Mookie, but not in the depot, but at the bar uptown. The bar was the only place in this village to get food. The depot was then being used for a senior citizens center.
Jim
I saw the signal shown in the pix at the Centennial/Olympia train station so where ever it is it is ex BN [8D][:D][:)]
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Originally posted by SP9033
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I’m guessing again.
Is this on a branch out of the Columbia river george around White Salmon,Wa.
I’m guessing somewhere in Washington or Idaho.
You know I was in Rocky Mount WA & there is a loggers RR there that crosses a river on a trestle. I think it is run by Weyerhauser. Maybe this is at the other end of that RR? [:D][:o)]
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Originally posted by SP9033
Hmm…the switcher is number 502, can’t get the name off the side. looks like Washington or Oregon to me, guessing oregon.
?? on the Stampede pass line ??
My guess is Avery, Idaho early 1980s St. Maries River Railroad after MILW quit.
It would be the St. Maries RR cause that is a MILW style T/O signal and that is how they painted their motors. I don’t think it would be Avery, but might be. Since ther are no wires or supports visable, may well be up toward Potlatch on the WIM.
We have a winner here! Good go Jeff. More later…but this was July 1984.
Jim
Congrats for being so wise [:o)][:I]
To bad you missed being the winner by about 16 minutes [:I][:o)]
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Originally posted by kenneo
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Here are some links to St Maries photos.
Log cars:
http://home.att.net/~lassen.logger/3foto-08.htm
MK builder’s photos:
http://home.att.net/~lassen.logger/2foto-11.htm
http://home.att.net/~lassen.logger/2foto-12.htm
Its interesting to note, that when the St Maries was created after the MILW pull-back from the west. The portion of main line from St Maries to Avery, ID was never a part of the then newly created St Maries River Railroad, but was carried on the books as an industrial railroad. Also of interest, Kyle Railways was the operater of this line at the time the photo was taken.
Kyle’s flagship shortline was the Yreka Western. The goose in the oval!
Jim
Sad to see whats becoming of that “Flagship” railroad.
Kyle died some 5 years ago or so, maybe longer, time flies when you get old. His shortline empire and the Yreka Western, the goose in the oval, have been sold off…
And it is the “NEW” owners that might lose this former “goose in the oval” flagship shortline.
Jim
Thanks, but wise is kind of a stretch.[:)]
The buildings looked right but that train order signal thru me for a while. I’ve never been to Avery[:(] and the only pictures I have seen in books and magazines were during the electric era when Avery was a division point and there was no TO signal then. I had read that the substation had been torn down and the St.Maries River Railroad ran to Avery (BTW, when did that end?)for a time.
It then struck me. After the electrics were retired, the MILW changed crew change points and ran thru Avery, so they would’ve added the train order signal.
Jeff
Are you talking about the company or the man? I thought the man died about the time San Joaquin Valley Railroad was formed, early 1990s. I seem to recall the local papers having an article about how Kyle was originally from somewhere in the area that SJVR is in, so he was finally going to have a railroad by where he grew up. It also seems like he died just before it started operations. Maybe I am confusing two stores together.
I think five years ago sounds about right for Kyle Railways. I know SJVR was owned by States Rail in 2001.