I took this picture at Beverly, Washington, roughly 50 years ago, age 13, while on a Boy Scout camping trip nearby.
This ancient electric locomotive set was waiting to help a Westbound Milwaukee Road train up the Saddle Mountains to Boylston, where the old railroad bridge can still be seen over I-90. These helper locomotives may have cut off at Boylston, or at Kittitas, or may have continued West through the Cedar River Watershed [past the front of the Ed Center] to Tacoma.
The electrics went away after a few years, the railroad a few more years later. The old grade became today's Iron Horse Trail.
Beverly, Lower Crab Creek, and the Missoula Flood areas to the East and North remain one of my favorite areas for daytrips.
Why post this today? Well, I was in the basement looking for a wall map of Germany, and accidentally tipped over a box overflowing with photographs. While picking up the mess, this one caught my eye: For the thirty years I have been returning to the area with family & friends, I have kept thinking that I should find an old picture.
This isn't the picture I was thinking of, but maybe sharing it will make the other one come out of hiding.
