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This shot pretty much tells the story of how crappy the MILW Sumas Branch became by the end in 1980. Zero maintainence ever. Believe it or not,
they ran everything that the Tacoma roundhouse had including U36C\'s up this line.
MILW 1506 Sumas Local bringing cars from the CP/BCH interchange by the MILW Sumas Depot. The "thing" hanging down at the top of the photo is a very unique orderboard.
Inbound MILW Sumas Local arrives at the MILW/BN
slapboard protected crossover in Bellingham WA
and waits the standard 5 minutes before proceeding
into their yard. August 1979
Inbound MILW Sumas Local holding back of the road crossings awaiting the opportunity to cross the
BN and into their yard at Bellingham WA. August 1979.
Here the Sumas local is on the north side of the US/Canada border on CPRail trackage at Huntingdon, B.C. Sumas Wa, is just in the distance behind the locomotives. This power is about to lift an interchange from the Southern Railway of BC and take it south.
Taken at 8.35pm on a very warm...
Brakeman Ken Royal rides the cut while brakeman Algee Baldwin mans the switch while doing a gravity drop at Lynden, WA in April of 2002.
Lynden is located in NW WA near the Canadian Border. It is at the end of an 11 mile branch off of BNSF's Sumas Subdivision. These cars are going to the...