Cascade Rail Foundation Photo Gallery

Inside the telegraph office - re-enactment at Depot Days 2009

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:37:28 GMT

Inside the telegraph office, Sir Harry of Essex (Steve Harris) looks on as Ed Trump sends out an important telegram. Telegrapher Del Klakken center) looks on.
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Apr 17, 2010

Costumed re-enacters - Passengers on Platform

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:36:14 GMT

Costumed passengers are lined up to wait for the arrival of the westbound
passenger train to Seattle. In 1909, they would be traveling to the
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exhibition, Seattle's first world's fair. The
passengers are members of Somewhere In Time Unlimited, a group that enjoys participating in events in costumes of historic periods.
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Apr 17, 2010

"Messenger Joey" running in a telegram at Depot Days

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:34:59 GMT

Messenger Joey running.
Messenger Joey Stone running to deliver important telegraph messages. Steve Harris (“Sir Harry of Essex) takes an unhurried tour of the grounds in the background.
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Apr 17, 2010

Depot Days telegraph office re-enactment

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:33:38 GMT

“I vant to send a telegram.”
Rita Harris (as Elfriede Schratzengaller of Bavaria) and Mary Laney at the office window to send telegrams. Mary Laney wears a “Votes for Women” button. During the summer of 1909 there was a major suffrage event in Seattle seeking votes for women in US elections.

Behind the window, telegraph counter clerk Fulton Toub receives messages to be for transmitted over the wire by telegraphers using Morse code.
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Apr 17, 2010

Costumed re-enacters - Train & Engine Crew and Passengers on Platform

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:32:05 GMT

Passengers, telegraphers and train crew line up for a group portrait at the Depot Days event. It looks like something right out of June 1909.

Left to right (the character or role in parenthesis)

Front row (L to R)
L.R. Keith (telegrapher/wire chief). Earl Shaw (telegrapher), Lavina Shaw (telegrapher). Ed Trump (telegrapher), Del Klakken (telegrapher), Ed Lynch (locomotive engineer), Mark Borleske (passenger brakeman), Rita Harris (as Elfriede Schratzenstaller of Bavaria, Germany), “Willy” (dog), Jess McAbee (locomotive fireman), Phil Borleske (passenger trainman).

Middle row (children at baggage cart, center)
Joey Stone (telegraph messenger/runner), Ryan Holt (local child)

Third row (L to R)
Clara Trump (telegraph customer counter clerk), Lorna Toub (telegraph/postal counter clerk), Fulton (telegraph/postal customer service), Steve Harris (as “Sir Harry or Essex”, English physician), Roxann Malley (railroad passenger), Corky Savoie (railroad passenger), Marjorie Reeves (railroad passenger), Mary Laney (railroad passenger), Kathie Technow (railroad passenger), Jay Michalsky (express agent).
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Apr 17, 2010

Costumed re-enacters - Train & Engine Crew and Passengers on Platform

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:29:48 GMT

Train & engine crew and passengers post on the platform at the Cle Elum
Depot on the route of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railroad ("the
Milwaukee Road"). From 1909 to 1980, the Milwaukee Road was a major presence in the town of South Cle Elum and the Kittitas Valley.
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Apr 17, 2010

Morse Telegraph Club at Depot Days 2009

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:27:36 GMT

Members of the Morse Telegraph Club gathered to send telegrams from the depot office using Morse Code. The telegraphers include (left to right) LR Keith of Ritzville, Del Klakken of Spokane, Earl and Lavina Shaw of Port Coquitlam,BC, Canada, Ed Trump and his wife Clara of Fairbanks, Alaska.
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Apr 17, 2010

Stools Now Empty

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:50:34 GMT

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Feb 22, 2010

Sunrise Waiting For Coffee

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:47:33 GMT

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Feb 22, 2010

Going over the summit on Snoqualmie Pass

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:17:44 GMT

Old steam engines of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Pacific Railway going over Snoqualmie Pass at the summit.
Photo from the Frederick Krueger Collection courtesy of CWU Library Archives - Ellensburg, WA.
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Jul 21, 2009