Cascade Rail Foundation Photo Gallery

Help Make A Dream Come True

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:07:09 GMT

This photo isn't real, but that could change. Read about the 5057 Project by the Cascade Rail Foundation and help make this dream a reality.
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Feb 01, 2012

Milwaukee Road's Olympian

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:08:13 GMT

One of 42 electric boxcab locomotives built by General Electric for the Rocky Mountain electrification that crosses four mountain ranges and 656 miles. It is seen here in Montana Canyon taking passengers on The Olympian anxious to see the wild West that they'd only read about.
Wish that was still possible today.
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Oct 20, 2011

Tunnel in Montana Canyon

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:51:25 GMT

Could you imagine the time it took to put a tunnel through the mountain or riding through it behind a steam locomotive with all the smoke ?
Can't read the date on the postmark, but probably from the mid 1920's with a two cent stamp. A son wrote to his mother back in Mass. to say he'd found work in Bangor, Wisconsin. At least he didn't ask that she send money.
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Oct 16, 2011

C.M. & St. P. RR in Montana Canyon

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:14:23 GMT

Postcard sent from Terminal Station in Seattle, Washington on August 27, 1926. The cancellation on the is of a biplane and it says. "Airmail Saves Time".
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Oct 16, 2011

C.M. & St. P. Train Crossing Spokane River

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:49:22 GMT

A postcard published by the Brouhgton-Robbins Company of Spokane, Washington that was postmarked March 3, 1921. A nephew wrote to his Aunt Emma back home in Indiana.
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Oct 16, 2011

The C.M. & St. P. Olympian Bipolar Electric

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 09:49:27 GMT

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Oct 16, 2011

C.M.&St.P. Railway Electrification

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 06:51:11 GMT

"Famous transcontinental train Olympian in the Cascades hauled by General Electric high speed gearless passenger locomotive"

- Compliments of General Electric Co.

Early 1920's postcard that appears to be at the base of Kendall's Peak near North Bend, Washington.
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Oct 16, 2011

Olympian On The West Slope Of The Cascade Mountains

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 05:56:55 GMT

Tinted postcard from the early 1920's showing the Olympian pulled by a boxcab electric through the Cascade Mountains in Washington.
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Oct 16, 2011

New Olympian Open Observation Car

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 01:15:59 GMT

"The freedom from smoke, soot and cinders in the electrified regions of The Milwaukee Road enhances the delight of travel in open observation cars. From these cars one finds thrills anew in the glorious scenery and in the zestful mountain air."

A passenger named Grace sent this postcard to a friend or relative back in Kansas City, Missouri in June 1936. She comments it's been raining a lot and seems the rain comes in both sides of the open observation car.
I guess getting wet didn't enhance her delight of travel, but she didn't get any soot or cinders.
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Oct 15, 2011

C.M. & St. P. Electric Engine #10102

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:37:51 GMT

Early 1920's tinted postcard published by the Broughton-Robbins Co. of Spokane, Wash.
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Oct 15, 2011