BYGONE WALLA WALLA PROJECT BY JOE DRAZAN is a local non-profit, non-commercial effort to build and share a visual history of Walla Walla. Use SEARCH box or the INDEX, or just scroll. CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE; right click & open in new tab for even LARGER view. WANTED! Your old snapshots, slides, or negatives of Walla Walla area places and events to share in this project, please contact me to get them scanned in; over 500 individuals have so far. CONTACT me; skippycat3@charter.net. c2025
Showing posts with label Rawhide Railroad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rawhide Railroad. Show all posts
Saturday, August 29, 2020
Monday, March 27, 2017
Doctor Baker's locomotive and the Rawhide Railroad from Walla Walla to Wallula.
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| The locomotive as it sat in Pasco at the Railroad Museum in June 2009 (4 color photos by Joe Drazan) |
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| The Mountain Queen (from Up-to-the-Times Magazine, 1914) |
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| Baker's Rawhide Railroad, by Washington State Governor Miles C. Moore, Dec 1918 |
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| Dorsey S. Baker |
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| Rawhide Railroad and photo of the first locomotive (WW Bulletin, Dec 15 1915) |
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| Title page, Prefaces, and selected illustrations to George Estes yarn on the Rawhide Railroad. (Click this link for Full text of Rawhide Railroad by Estes https://archive.org/stream/rawhiderailroad00esteiala/rawhiderailroad00esteiala_djvu.txt Thanks to Mike Boyer for finding the link) |
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| Half full bottle of whiskey used for level |
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| Locomotives "Ladd" and "Blue Mountain" |
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| Hunting dog on platform replaced cowcatcher as being more proficient. Illustrations from Estes booklet. |
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| Tailendum of the Estes yarn |
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| Myth revisited by the Union-Bulletin's roving reporter Nellie Nelson in January 1948 |
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| After its service and abandonment in Alaska, the engine is now being restored for exhibit at Fort Walla Walla Museum (photo from WW Union-Bulletin, 3-27-2017) |
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