

Northwest
Railroad Depots
This page features railroad depots in the Pacific
Northwest. These are only a few of the many depots in Oregon and
Washington. Some are still active train stations, some are preserved as
museums and some are closed or used for other functions. This page
includes links to historical photos and information from the
Oregon State
Library, the Oregon
Historical Society, the
Washington State
Historical Society, the
University
of Washington Library, the
Salem
Public Library,
Multnomah
County Genweb,
HistoryLink.org, RailPictures.Net,
RRPictureArchives.net,
shastaroute.railfan.net,
The Friends of SP 4449,
Tom
Robinson's HistoricPhotoArchive.com,
E. O. Gibson's WX4,
and the Washington State
Railroads Historical Society.
Oregon
Albany


The Albany depot was completed in 1909 for the
Southern Pacific Railroad, replacing a previous depot, and has remained
in continuous operation. It is currently served by
Amtrak's Coast
Starlight and
Cascades
trains. An $11.5 million renovation project began in May of 2004 and the
depot was dedicated in April of 2006.
Historical Photos:
Train at old Albany depot, 1895
(Salem
Public Library)
Train at old Albany depot, 1900
(Salem
Public Library)
Horsecar at new Albany depot, under construction, 1908
(Salem
Public Library)


The
clock tower was constructed in December 2006 and January 2007 at a cost
of $140,000. It is 60 feet tall and the base is 6 feet square. The
4-foot-diameter clocks were donated by the
Greater
Albany Rotary Club. The "ALBANY" letters are 2


feet
tall. The tower has a steel frame with a masonry veneer, including about
2,500 ornamental, sand-colored bricks.


The
adjacent 1,500-square-foot Railway Express Agency building on the east
end of the depot is currently vacant and was last used as offices and a
dispatch center for the Union Pacific Railroad.
It is to be restored and renovated to serve as the


offices
for the
Albany Transit System.
Astoria

The Astoria & Columbia River Railroad was completed
to Astoria on April 4, 1898, with the first train on May 16. The
Spokane, Portland & Seattle took over February 24, 1911. This depot was
built in 1924, which incidentally turned out to be the peak year for
rail travel in Astoria. Passenger
service to Astoria ended in 1952, but
the depot was used by the railroad for other purposes for many years.
Eventually even the freight rail traffic disappeared, and the SP&S's
successor Burlington Northern donated the depot to the
Columbia River Maritime Museum. Today, the museum uses the depot for storage.


The
tracks to the depot are now owned by the
Portland & Western
Railroad,
though there is no freight rail business in Astoria and except for the
Lewis & Clark Explorer during the summers of 2003 to 2005, no trains
have come this far in a


long time. Though the Lewis & Clark Explorer stopped in front of the depot, the
building itself has remained closed, and is in need of serious repair.
The tracks through Astoria are now owned by the city, and are used for
the Astoria Riverfront Trolley, which stops near the depot.
Brooks


The
historic Brooks
railroad depot was originally built by the Southern Pacific Railroad in
downtown Brooks. It was moved to
Antique Powerland in 1986 and is now
the home of the Brooks Historical Society's museum; it is being
maintained in its original condition and is full of historical
artifacts.
Canby

The
Canby depot was originally built in 1873 by the Oregon & California
Railroad and was originally located at North First and Grant Streets. It
is the oldest railroad depot in Oregon. The railroad was taken over by
the Southern Pacific in 1887. Additions were made to the depot in 1891
and 1907. The depot
closed
on August 4, 1976, and in 1978 the Southern Pacific Railroad offered the
building to the people of Canby with the provision that it be moved off
railroad property. The building was moved to its current location on
August 4, 1983 and the 1907 addition was removed so its materials could
be used to restore the rest of the building. The Canby Depot Museum
opened on
October
6, 1984. It is home to the
Canby
Historical Society. Several other railroad artifacts are here as
well including signals, a speeder shed and a caboose.
Related Links:
Canby Depot Museum History
Canby Depot, July 4, 1974 from E. O. Gibson's WX4
The Dalles


The
City Transportation Center in The Dalles hasn't served trains since
Amtrak's Pioneer
was discontinued in 1997 and it now only serves buses. I'm not sure if
it's an historic depot that was moved from its original location and
renovated or if it's a newer building designed to look like an old
depot.
Hood River
The
Hood River depot was built in 1911 for use by the Oregon-Washington
Railway & Navigation Company, a subsidiary of the Union Pacific Railroad.
It replaced a Queen Anne style depot that was built in 1882. When new,
the 1911 depot's amenities included a women's restroom, a men's smoking
room and a large enough waiting room for 120 people. The depot was
listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. Today the
depot serves as the headquarters for the
Mount Hood Railroad
and accommodates the passengers of the railroad's tourist trains.

Lebanon
The Santiam Travel
Station is the former Southern Pacific Railroad depot in Lebanon. The Albany-Lebanon
Railroad was completed in September 1880, and a depot was built north of
Sherman Street. In October 1880, the railroad was taken over by the
Oregon & California Railroad. On May 12, 1887, the
Southern Pacific
Railroad took over the Oregon & California Railroad. This
new
depot was
built in 1908, to Southern Pacific’s design number 23.
In 1984, the
Southern Pacific depot in Lebanon closed. It had been many, many years
since passenger trains had served Lebanon, but the depot had still
served as an office for an agent to handle freight business. In March of
1993, the Willamette Valley Railway
leased the line from Albany to Mill
City from the Southern Pacific (now
Union Pacific), and in May of 1998, the line to Sweet
Home was purchased from BNSF. The railroad has operated as the
Albany & Eastern
Railroad since 2000.
The Lebanon depot was placed on the
National Register of Historic
Places on
June
13, 1997. It is one of two Southern Pacific No. 23 depots in Oregon
remaining in its original location. It was renovated into the Santiam
Travel Station and was dedicated on October 22, 2003. It is now cared for by the
Lebanon City Parks Department, and is used as a council chambers and
community center.
Oregon City
This building was the
Southern Pacific Railroad's freight depot in Oregon City. It is not in
its original location and may have been moved out of Oregon City at some
point and brought back. It has been in its current location since at
least the mid-1990s. It is currently used as an office building and is
known as "The Depot," housing
Bill R. McCracken
Accounting and Tax Service,
Applied Handing NW,
Inc., and Farmers
Insurance. It was scheduled to be moved in 2007 to be used as
Oregon City's Amtrak depot, but this has yet to happen.
Oregon City's original
passenger depot was located downtown, right next to the municipal
elevator. The depot was owned and operated by the Southern Pacific
Railroad. The passenger trains of the Southern Pacific ceased stopping
in Oregon City in 1954, though they would continue to pass through, even
after being turned over to
Amtrak in 1971. The unused passenger depot
disappeared, and no trace of it remains today. Even the Southern Pacific
itself disappeared into the Union Pacific Railroad in 1996.
The city of Oregon City
wanted passenger trains to stop there again, and so the city built a new
passenger platform across Washington Street from the
End of the
Oregon Trail Interpretive Center. On Friday, April 16, 2004, the new station
platform was dedicated and
Amtrak's
Cascades trains began stopping in
Oregon City. A plaque at the depot features a 2005 depiction of an
Amtrak
Cascades
train at the Oregon City station by Darla S. Cole. According to the
plaque, the platform was dedicated in honor of John F. Williams, Jr.,
who was mayor of Oregon City from 1999 to 2002. The project was
conceived during his administration and completed during the
administration of Alice Norris. The station was designed by
David Evans and
Associates and built by Bill Erickson Construction. The plaque also
includes the names of City
Commissioners
Edward Allick, Bob Bailey, Derrick Beneville, Gary Hewitt, Dan Holladay,
Tom Lemons, Jack Lynch, and Doug Neeley, Members of the Urban Renewal
Commission Bill Packus (Chair), Andy Busch, Debra Jones and Wende
Sanchez, City Managers Brian Nakamura and Larry Patterson and Public
Works Director/City Engineer Nancy Kraushaar.
Portland


Portland
Union Station was conceived in the mid-1880s by Henry Villard, president
of the Northern Pacific Railway when it reached Portland in 1883. An
early design would have been the largest railroad station in the world.
This more modest Richardsonian Romanesque proposal was

designed by the Boston/Kansas
City architectural firm of Van Brunt & Howe. The station was built by
the Northern Pacific Terminal Co., beginning in 1890. It opened as Grand
Central Station on February 14, 1896. As other railroads
started using it, it became known as Union Station. In the
1920s, the depot served five railroads and over 120 arrivals and
departures a day.

The
150-foot tower's Seth Thomas clock, made in Thomaston, Connecticut in
1895, features 14 foot diameter opalescent glass faces with bronze
hands, a 14 foot pendulum and 1,000 pounds of counterweight that drops
almost 50 feet over 7 days. The neon "UNION
STATION GO BY TRAIN" signs, added in
1948 & turned off in 1971; were restored in 1985 by the efforts Rich Carlson.
Historical Photos:
Early Photo of Union Station
(HistoricPhotoArchive.com)
Union Station (Oregon
Historical Society)
Postcard View of Union Station, circa 1910 (University
of Washington Library)
Postcard View of Union Station
(shastaroute.railfan.net/)
Postcard View of Union Station
(shastaroute.railfan.net/)
Postcard View of Union Station
(shastaroute.railfan.net/)
Postcard View of Union Station
(Multnomah
County Genweb)
Postcard View of Union Station
(shastaroute.railfan.net/)
Postcard View of Union Station
(Multnomah
County Genweb)
Postcard View of Union Station
(shastaroute.railfan.net/)
Postcard View of Union Station
(Multnomah
County Genweb)
Postcard View of Union Station
(shastaroute.railfan.net/)
Postcard View of Union Station
(Multnomah
County Genweb)
Postcard View of Union Station
(shastaroute.railfan.net/)
Postcard View of Union Station
(shastaroute.railfan.net/)
Aerial View showing Union Station, March 4, 1959
(HistoricPhotoArchive.net)
Union Station, June 27, 1962
(Salem
Public Library)
Freight Train at Union Station, June 3, 1971
(RailPictures.Net)
Southern Pacific Daylight steam engine #4449 at Union Station in
1984 (Friends
of SP 4449)
Southern Pacific Daylight steam engine #4449 at Union Station,
April 28, 1991 (RailPictures.Net)
Southern Pacific freight train at Union Station, June 20, 1993
(RRPictureArchives.net)

Union
Station was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
Union Station is the oldest major railroad passenger terminal on the
West Coast and is one of the oldest continuously operating railroad
passenger stations in the United States. It has been owned by the
Portland Development
Commission since 1987.
Though passenger train service has decreased
dramatically since Union Station's heyday, there are still a number of
trains arriving and departing from Union Station throughout the day.
Union Station is served by Amtrak's
Coast Starlight, Empire Builder and
Cascades
service.


The
main concourse was renovated in the 1930s by Pietro Belluschi. The walls
and floor are covered with travertine marble, giving the waiting area an
Art Deco look. The south wing retains more of the station's original
Victorian Renaissance Revival architecture.
Historical Photo:
Postcard view of the Union Station News Stand (now the Ticket Counter)
(shastaroute.railfan.net/)

Part
of the 1930s renovation of the waiting room included a built-in clock in
the wall at each end. The clock above the ticket counter at the west end
is no longer functional and has lost its hands, but the one above the
doors to the platform still tells the time.


The
main waiting room features neon directional signs that may
have been installed when the interior was renovated, but more likely
were added in 1948 with the neon signs on the clock
tower. The sign for Amtrak's Metropolitan Lounge for sleeping car
passengers is a more recent addition.
The
shelters over the passenger platforms were built in 1904. They were
saved from demolition in 1990.
St. Helens

The
St. Helens depot was built in 1923 by the Spokane, Portland & Seattle
Railway.
There was no passenger service on the Astoria line after 1956, but the
depot was still used by the railroad as a base of operation for train
and maintenance crews for decades. The depot was donated to the city of
St. Helens in
the 1990s, and was renovated into the city's
Chamber of
Commerce in 2000. The St. Helens and Astoria depots are the only two
depots remaining on the Astoria line.
Salem
The Oregon
& California Railroad was the first railroad built south from Portland
toward California. It reached Salem on September 27, 1870, and opened a
depot here later that year. Salem's residents of the time complained
that the depot was too far from town.
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A large crowd gathered at the Salem depot in August 1899
to welcome home Oregon’s 2nd Volunteers from the Spanish-American War.
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Salem's
first railroad depot was destroyed in a fire in 1885. Soon after, a new
depot was built by the Southern Pacific Railroad, which took over the
Oregon & California in 1887. When it first opened, it consisted of a
two-story passenger-section only, but a single-story freight section was
soon added on the south end. (Note: the photo at left is of a 1:64 scale
model of the old Salem depot on the Oregon State Capitol Holidays
Layout.)

In
1917, the passenger section of Salem's depot was destroyed by another
fire. The fire was put out before it caused significant damage to the
freight section, which was saved and repaired as a stand-alone freight
depot. This 1800's freight depot still stands today as the oldest
freight depot in the state of Oregon, and it retains many of its
original architectural details. It has recently received a new roof
(donated by
Withers Lumber, Larry Epping


Building
Co., Fidelity National
Title,
Associated Properties Real Estate Sales & Service,
Portland General Electric,
JDC Homes, LLC,
Washington
Federal Savings,
Freres Lumber Company, Inc. and the Marion-Polk Building Industry
Association) and is wrapped in
Typar plastic until
funds for a complete restoration can be raised.
Historical Photos:
Old Depot
(Salem
Public Library)
Old Depot, 1889-1890
(Salem
Public Library)
Train at Old Depot, 1889-1900
(Salem
Public Library)
Old Depot, 1899
(Salem
Public Library)
Old Depot, 1890-1910
(Salem
Public Library)
Old Depot
(Salem
Public Library)
Old Depot
(Salem
Public Library)
Old Depot, 1908
(Salem
Public Library)
Train at Old Depot, circa 1911
(Oregon
State Library)
Old Depot, 1913
(Salem
Public Library)
Old Depot, 1915
(Salem
Public Library)
Train at Salem Depot with Oregon National Guard soldiers for Mexico,
1916 (Oregon
State Library)


In
1918, the Southern Pacific Railroad built a new passenger depot in
Salem. The depot was designed by J. H. Christie, an architect for the
Southern Pacific Railroad, and was built by Stebinger Brothers of
Portland at a cost of


$25,000.
The depot featured Beaux Arts Classical architecture with Ionic columns
and large Roman arched windows and a 1500 square foot passenger waiting
room with a 24-foot ceiling, two 30-inch globe light fixtures, marble
wainscoting and and Terrazzo marble floors.

By
the 1950s, the depot had been "modernized," with a low suspended ceiling
in the waiting room, and the large arched windows blanked over. As
passenger rail service declined from the 1960s onward, maintenance was
kept to a minimum and the building deteriorated. The
Oregon Department
of Transportation

took
possession of the depot property in the 1990s. In 1998, a three-phase
restoration project began that took nearly two years, restoring the
interior's arched windows, high ceilings and marble floors,
recreating the original light fixtures, and building a new brass and
black marble ticket counter. A new roof, HVAC, plumbing and electrical
systems,
paving
and landscaping were also part of the project. The restored depot was
rededicated on May 19, 2000.
Amtrak leases the
depot from the Oregon Department of Transportation for $1 a year, and is
also responsible for cleaning and maintenance. The depot is served daily by Amtrak's
Coast Starlight and
Cascades
service.
Related Links:
Salem's Railroad Depots at Salem Online History
Salem's Passenger Rail Station at Salem Online History
Salem Railroad Station at Salem Online History
Historical Photos:
Depot and Freight Depot in 1929
(Salem
Public Library)
Depot, 1940s-1950s
(Salem
Public Library)
President Eisenhower & Governor McKay on train at depot, October 7,
1952
(Salem
Public Library)
Depot in 1960
(Salem
Public Library)
Depot, Unknown Date
(Salem
Public Library)
Depot, 1977
(Salem
Public Library)
Troutdale


Troutdale's
first depot was built in 1882 by the Oregon Railway & Navigation
Company. It was a two-story depot with living quarters upstairs for the
agent and his family. The original depot burned in 1907 and this depot
was built to replace it. It was
originally
on the north side of the tracks about two blocks from its current
location. Passenger service in Troutdale ended in 1965. In 1976 the Union Pacific Railroad
sold the building to Troutdale for $1. The depot was moved in March of
1976. It is maintained by the
Troutdale
Historical Society.
Related Links:
Troutdale Depot Rail Museum Gallery
Washington
Bingen

The
Bingen Amtrak depot, officially called Bingen-White Salmon, is in a
corner of this BNSF maintenance building. The Amtrak depot reportedly
opened in 1992. I don't know if that is when this building was built, or
just when the Amtrak depot moved in. There are no services or Amtrak
staff at the depot; just a waiting room.
Historically, the depot in Bingen was called White
Salmon, due to the other nearby town's prominence and better-known name.
This did not sit well with the people of Bingen, and in 1930 the depot
was renamed Bingen-White Salmon.
Historical Photos:
White
Salmon Depot, 1912 (Washington
State Railroads Historical Society)
Centralia

The Centralia Union Depot at 210 Railroad Avenue was
built by the Northern Pacific Railway in 1912. This brick depot was the
Northern Pacific's third Centralia depot, following wood depots built in
1880 and 1905. An extensive restoration between 1996 and 2002 has resulted
in this beautiful stop for
Amtrak's
Cascades and
Coast Starlight.
Historical Photos:
Old
Centralia Depot, 1905 (Washington
State Railroads Historical Society)
Centralia Depot, unknown date
(Washington
State Railroads Historical Society)
Chehalis

The
Chehalis-Centralia Railroad Association is in the process of restoring the
Milwaukee Road's Chehalis train order station. The depot had been
vacant since 1980 until 1995 when it was donated to the CCRA and moved
here. When completed it will serve as the depot, ticket office and gift
shop for the tourist train.
Kelso
Rail
service first came to Kelso in 1872, when the Northern Pacific Railway
built north from a river connection at Kalama, Washington toward
Seattle. This brick depot opened on February 12, 1912, replacing an
earlier wood-frame depot built in the 1800s. By the early 1990s, the
depot was locked up.
Amtrak trains still
stopped at the station, but there were no personnel at the station and
passengers had to wait outside. Tickets had to be purchased in advance,
either from a travel agent, or from another station with Amtrak
personnel.

In
September 1994, after years of neglect, a major renovation and
restoration of the depot was started to turn the depot into a multimodal
transportation hub for Cowlitz County. The renovation included the
addition of a clock tower and putting a full basement under the depot,
which had never had one before, to be used for

retail space. The
renovation was completed and the depot was dedicated as the "Kelso
Intermodal Facility"
at 2:30 PM on September 23, 1995. Since then, the depot has become a
Greyhound bus station in accordance with the multimodal plans, but
the basement has never had a tenant and while Amtrak trains continue to
stop here, no Amtrak personnel are assigned to the

station. For a time
it was possible to buy a Greyhound ticket but not an Amtrak ticket, but
an automated Amtrak ticket machine has since been installed. NOTE: The
clock tower does not have a permanent pointed spire on top of it; in the
photos that shows it, it is a temporary holiday decoration (though I
think it makes the clock tower look better).
The renderings below were used for the invitations to
the Grand Opening of the Kelso Intermodal Facility and the "Keeping Kids
on Track" festival on Saturday, September 23, 1995. There are a number
of differences between these renderings and the finished project,
including the covered platform and the design of the clock tower and its
base.


Historical Photos:
Kelso
Depot, 1920s (Washington
State Railroads Historical Society)
Passenger Train at Kelso Depot, August 21, 1972 (RRPictureArchives.net)
Freight Train at Kelso Depot, August 22, 1972 (RRPictureArchives.net)
Vancouver


The
Vancouver depot sits at the end of the 1908 drawbridge over the Columbia
River, in one corner of a "wye" arrangement of track forming the
junction between the north-south line between Portland and Seattle and
the east-west line down
the
north side of the Columbia River Gorge leading to Spokane and points
east, putting tracks on both sides of the depot. The depot was built at
about the same time as the bridge and originally served the Great
Northern, Northern Pacific and Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railways. The
Union Pacific
began
serving the depot as well in 1910. Today, the depot serves
Amtrak passengers,
with the
Cascades
and Coast Starlight stopping on the west side of the station and
the Empire Builder stopping on the east side. The interior of the

Vancouver depot was renovated in late 2008 and the depot reopened in
mid-January, 2009 with a more open floor plan resulting in a much larger
waiting room.
Related Links:
Train carries James J. Hill across the new Columbia River Railroad
Bridge from Portland to Vancouver on November 5, 1908
(HistoryLink.org)
Railroading in Vancouver & Southwest Washington
(HistoryLink.org)
Historical Photos:
Postcard
View of Vancouver Depot, circa 1914
(Washington
State Railroads Historical Society)
Postcard View of Vancouver Depot, circa 1915
(Washington
State Historical Society)
Vancouver Depot, August 22, 1972 (rrpicturearchives.net)
Vancouver Depot, September 20, 1994 (shastaroute.railfan.net/)
Wishram

Wishram's
Amtrak depot is in this BNSF maintenance building. Wishram was once
named Fallbridge but was renamed to honor a local Native American tribe.
The town was an important crew change point for the Spokane, Portland &
Seattle Railway, located halfway between Vancouver and Pasco, and to
this day this section of the railroad is called the Fallbridge
Subdivision.
Historical Photos:
Fallbridge
Depot, 1925 (Washington
State Railroads Historical Society)



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On the east side
of the Wishram depot is a monument to the pioneers of the
Pacific Northwest, who are listed on a plaque which reads as
follows: |
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TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE
DAUNTLESS PATHFINDERS AND
PIONEERS WHO FOLLOWED THE
GREAT THOROUGHFARE OF
THE COLUMBIA AT THIS PLACE.
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AMONG THEM WERE |
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Meriwether Lewis
William Clark
David Thompson
David Stuart
Robert Stuart
Donald McKenzie
Robert McLelen
Donald McLennon
John Reed
Wilson Price Hunt
Ramsay Crooks
Alexander Ross
Gabriel Franchere
Ross Cox
Alexander Henry
Peter Skene Ogden
John McLoughlin
George Simpson
Jedediah S. Smith
David Douglas
Nathaniel Wyeth |
Jason and Daniel Lee
Cyrus Shepard
P. L. Edwards
Thomas Nuttall
John K. Townsend
Samuel Parker
Pierre J. De Smet
Marcus Whitman
Narcissa Whitman
Henry H. Spaulding
Eliza Spaulding
William H. Gray
Francis N. Blanchet
Modeste Demers
Robert Newell
Joseph L. Meek
Elijah White
Jesse Applegate
Peter H. Burnett
James W. Nesmith
John C. Fremont |
|
Also near the depot is a small park housing former
Great Northern Railway steam locomotive #2507. This locomotive was one
of 28 Class P-2 4-8-2 Mountain-type locomotives delivered to Great
Northern by the Baldwin Locomotive Works. They were originally assigned
to passenger service and were the initial power for the Empire
Builder when it was inaugurated in June, 1929, but were replaced in
Empire Builder service in 1930 by 14 new Baldwin Class S-2 4-8-4
Northern-type locomotives that pulled the Empire Builder until it
was streamlined and dieselized in 1947. The Class P-2 Mountains were
then assigned to freight service until their retirement in 1955.

After its retirement, #2507 was put into storage in
Minnesota instead of being immediately scrapped. Meanwhile, the Spokane,
Portland & Seattle promised a steam locomotive to Klickitat County for
display at Maryhill, only to end up having no steam locomotives left;
#700 had been given to the city of Portland, #539 to the city of
Vancouver, and the rest sold for scrap. To save face, the SP&S purchased
#2507 from parent Great Northern, repainted it with SP&S lettering, and
donated it to Klickitat County in 1962.

For 30 years, #2507 sat on display in Maryhill in
SP&S paint. An attempted restoration saw #2507 painted back to GN in
1992, and in 1994 it was moved from Maryhill to Pasco to be restored to
operation. No restoration ever occurred however, and eventually
Klickitat County decided to put the locomotive back on permanent
display. Track realignments had made a return to Maryhill impractical,
so a new site in Wishram was chosen. The locomotive was given a complete
cosmetic restoration and a structure was built to protect the locomotive
from the elements. BNSF donated the locomotive's move from Pasco to
Wishram, and it was dedicated at its now home on October 10, 2003. The
locomotive is displayed with its original plaque from Maryhill and a new
display with a brief operational history and technical details, but no
mention is made that the locomotive was in Maryhill, or of why a Great
Northern locomotive is displayed along the tracks of the Spokane,
Portland & Seattle.
Below are the specifications listed on the new
display and the test of the original plaque.
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SPECIFICATIONS
| Wheel
Arrangement |
4-8-2 |
| Length |
102'-7/8" |
| Drivers |
73" diameter |
| Weight on
Drivers |
242,000 lbs. |
| Locomotive
Weight |
365,600 lbs. |
| Locomotive &
Tender Weight |
617,000 lbs |
| Cylinders
(diameter x stroke) |
(2) 29" x 28" |
| Boiler
Pressure |
210 psi |
| Tractive
Effort |
57,580 lbs |
| Tender Water
Capacity |
15,000
gallons |
| Tender Fuel
Oil Capacity |
5,606 gallons |
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THIS BALDWIN
LOCOMOTIVE
NO. 2507 WAS
PRESENTED TO
KLICKITAT COUNTY
IN 1962 BY
THE SPOKANE,
PORTLAND AND
SEATTLE RAILWAY
COMPANY AS
A LASTING MEMORIAL
TO THE
DAYS OF STEAM
LOCOMOTIVES AND
THE MEN WHO
OPERATED THEM. |
Related Links:
Railroad Station Historical Society
Great
American Stations
Old Depot
Photos from the Washington State Railroads Historical Society
USA Rail
Guide
Also See:
TriMet
Westside Express Service
Oregon Wig-Wags
ORHF Holiday Express 2008
Amtrak's Pinch Hitters
Lewis & Clark Explorer
Farewell is not Forever
4449 - 844 Doubleheader!
4449
and Friends from the Brooklyn Roundhouse
Northwest Railroad Museums
Northwest Short Lines
Mass Transit Pictures
Diesels of the
Oregon Pacific Railroad
Steam on the Chelatchie Prairie
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PORTLAND PLACES - South Waterfront & Aerial Tram
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PLACES - Lebanon, Oregon
PLACES - Antique Powerland, Brooks, Oregon
PLACES -
Kelso-Longview, Washington
PLACES - Salem, Oregon
PLACES - Stevens Pass, Washington
PLACES - Havre, Montana
PLACES - Minot, North Dakota
PLACES
- Illinois Railway Museum


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