Cascade Rail Foundation Photo Gallery

Eastern Tourists Visit Paradise

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 06:40:36 GMT

"Mount Rainier National Park encloses the mountain, and the train takes you to Ashford, where automobile stages carry you up through the park entrance and along the most beautiful woodland road in the world to The Inn, at Longmire Springs or Paradise Inn at Paradise Park."

"Trails and ponies that start from The Inns take you to many other wonder spots on the mountain and with competent guides you may even venture out on to the great glaciers that sweep down every side."

Early photo showing tourists from the East who would soon hit the slopes to some snowboarding. They had just found paradise that the advertising had promised.
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Mar 24, 2012

Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway at Lake Keechelus

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 04:37:48 GMT

Photo in the "Souvenir Folder of Scenes along the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway" (Circa 1917). This folder was postmarked in November 1919 and mailed to friends or relatives in the Bronx, New York City, NY.
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Mar 23, 2012

Chicago Milwaikee & St. Paul Railway in Kittitas Valley

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 03:50:01 GMT

Photo from the "Souvenir Folder of Scenes along the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway" (Circa 1917).
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Mar 22, 2012

Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway c.1917

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 03:21:16 GMT

Photo from "Souvenir Folder of Scenes along the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway" (Circa 1917)
Photo of the East slope of the Cascade Mountains in Washington.
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Mar 22, 2012

Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 02:44:19 GMT

Photo included in a "Souvenir Folder of Scenes along the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway" (Circa 1917). Folder contained 16 photos of scenes you might see if you traveled out West. It mentions "the splendid Kittitas Valley... life is easy and pleasant".
My relatives arrived in 1892 in the Upper Kittitas Valley at Roslyn to mine coal. Don't think they found life easy or pleasant.
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Mar 22, 2012

Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railroad

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:23:03 GMT

Early postcard showing tourists heading out West to see the sights. One has his new Kodak Camera in hand to record the wonders of Yellowstone National Park, Mount Rainier National Park and Puget Sound.
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Mar 16, 2012

The Overland Limited

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:50:19 GMT

In the early 1900's passengers were provided post cards to write to friends or family. This unused post card was prior to 1907 as the undivided back was for the address only and any message was written on the front. The Private Mailing Card indicates "Authorized by act of Congress of May 19, 1898".
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Feb 25, 2012

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