Washington (State) -- Cheney -- History; Northern Pacific Railway Company -- History; Railroads
Photograph of an early 20th Century train, probably the Spokane - Puget Sound Local of the Northern Pacific Railway, heading westbound out of Cheney, ca. 1912.
Photograph of the F.M. Martin Grain & Milling Co., an early mill located on the north side of the Northern Pacific Railroad tracks in Cheney, Washington. Photograph shows Northern Pacific Railroad cars, horses and wagon, bags of grain, and...
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Canyons; Grand Coulee (Wash.)
"The Grand Coulee is about ten miles wide where it opens on the Columbia River at its northern end, which is a hundred feet above the water, and gradually widens toward the south; its walls, eight hundred feet high are formed of solid basaltic...
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Mount Baker (Wash.); Cascade Range
"Mount Baker is one of the loftiest and most conspicuous peaks of the northern Cascade range; it is nearly as high as Mount Rainier, and, like that mountain, its snow-covered pyramid has the form of a sugar-loaf." Plate LXX.
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Lightning Lake (Mont.)
"Lightning Lake is a very beautiful sheet of water, so called from the fact that during Captain Pope's expedition, while encamped here, one of those storms so fearfully violent in this country occurred, during which one of his party was...
Great Northern’s Republic branch crossed the Columbia at Marcus on this bridge. The GN was relocated and the town of Marcus was razed to make way for Lake Roosevelt.
Great Northern depot at Marcus, Washington. This was the junction for the Republic branch, leading to the left of the photo. The main line to Nelson, BC curves to the right. The railroad was relocated and the town razed to make way for Lake...
Great Northern depot at Marcus, Washington, junction for the Republic branch. The railroad was relocated and the town was razed to make way for Lake Roosevelt
Structures which were to be inundated by the reservoir were removed before the lake started to fill. The photo appears to show the destruction of one of the piers which supported the Great Northern bridge across the Columbia at Marcus, Washington.
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Great Northern depot at Marcus before the town was removed to make way for the reservoir behind Grand Coulee Dam.
Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction; Scrapers (Earthmoving machinery) ; Horse-drawn vehicles -- History
Construction of the temporary railroad from Coulee City to the dam site utilized methods common a half century earlier when the Northern Pacific built its branch to Coulee City. Horse drawn fresno scrapers are being used to grade the roadbed.