I'm glad Ike posted his response on this subject. Since 2013 I have been the Archivist with the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway Archives located at the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive at Burien

Bruce, Yes the power cars were on standard gauge trucks and were swapped out with 5' gauge trucks when loaded on the ships. The standard gauge trucks were originally sent back to the factories buildin

Hi All, The material Paul Hobbs used in creation of his article came from the SP&S Railway Historical Society Archives and this comes from SP&S File 272-17-3 "Exports to Russia". I have attached a few

Had a request for Rock Island, here are some of them. Will try to find time to scan the others, in the middle of laying up a quarterly magazine. Rich Wilkens

Here are the CGW interchanges. Rich Wilkens

Had a request for the MN&S and Minnesota Western, here they are. Richard Wilkens

Had a request for St. Cloud, MN, here they are. Richard Wilkens

I had a request for the M&StL interchanges and here they are. Richard Wilkens

This past weekend the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive (PNRA) at Burien, WA processed a donation of a study made by the Great Northern. This study covered perishable carload traffic in 1954 for cars

Is anyone working on rosters of Frisco freight & MOW cars? The Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive in September received some material transferred from St. Paul and this includes ledgers from the Frisc

I have attached a photo showing a New York Central stock car as well as a couple Northern Pacific, and at least one Great Northern, can't identify the other cars. This is at Wishram, Washington on the

Here is a sequence of views of transformers and runner being delivered on the Seattle City Light Skagit River Railway in early 1950's. View 01 - Here we have Skagit River Railway center cab diesel No.

Photo of runner for Ross Powerhouse generator No. 41 on C&O 80977 well car. Photo taken at Rockport, WA on Great Northern after the Skagit River Railway was abandoned and runner was delivered on lowbo

Here are four more photos of Great Northern well car GN 60002, including closeup of well. These were taken in October 1958 and shows runner for Diablo generator No. 32. Rich Wilkens

Continuing the well car / depressed center car threads. These are various photos from the Seattle City Light Skagit Power Project. PRR 470031 with runner for Seattle City Light Ross Powerhouse, car on

The Railway Engineering and Maintenance Cyclopedia for 1926 shows weed mowers, burners, and sprayers ranging from hand held to freight car size. A full page ad for herbicides for the The Reade Mfg. Co

Those are 1/4 ton jeep trailers, on one of them you can see the stepped top. The 1 ton trailers have a large stamped steel landing wheel which would be visible. I have a 1945 Ben-Hur one ton trailer.

As this is a photo from a newspaper archives that doctoring is typical for newspapers of that period. This gave a stronger contrast to the photos when printed. You will see the edges of the truck side

Mention of the whale from the Portland Oregonian Richard Wilkens Oregonian, April 13, 1930 WHALE IS TO MOVE ON Car With Embalmed Mammal to Leave Portland Monday. The embalmed whale on exhibition at th

U.S. Army Tank Car USAX 16503 at Taylor Yard in Los Angeles on May 24, 1958. Wonder what nasty stuff was in those tanks? Richard Wilkens