Especially interesting if they wye anything there these days. Perhaps if there's a need for any m-o-w or snow removal equipment to be turned? Was this a recent photo? I can't tell if there is any snow on the hills beyond.
Now that's premium real estate for a railfan! Or not so much for those who move in to a house next to the tracks and then complain that trains go by. I'll trade with them any day!
I believe they still do turn the MOW and plows on the Snohomish wye. Photo was taken in Nov 2009 and as I recollect, there was no snow at that time. Bing earth shows the wye tracks are still in place. The stub runs in behind a few houses into the woods.
That would be an awesome place to be! Got these two pics out of some bad video I took at Sioux City, IA on my way home. This street had businesses and housing on the other side of the street with an excellent view of this yard area!
Here's a photo I ran across and knew immediately where it was. When I was a kid, I had he opportunity to have ridden in the cabs of the Milwaukee Road with my relatives and this photo is taken of a westbound train descending Pipestone Pass into Butte, MT. The locomotive can be seen above the box car. i usually saw the train looking back from an eastbound locomotive looking back at the caboose.
Actually this is an eastward train, on the east side descending in the loop east of Cedric, above Vendome.
I stand corrected. I knew it was somewhere on the way to Butte. Guess I'm getting old and have oldtimers disease.
Well, I trip and fall enough myself these days. We're just weeks shy of the Railroad being gone from out west for 36 years now. Some memories are fading.
It was the yard on the north central part of town, around Floyd Blvd and 24th st. Is also where I saw the UP unit a few blocks north, so I'm not sure whose.
Here are a couple of pics I took this a.m. while checking out a home I babysit near Hodges, MT. I have always thought this would be an awesome place to live....it's a siding about halfway up Beaver Hill east of Glendive.
