Icing a Northern Pacific (NP) refrigerated railroad car at the ice plant, July 1957 shortly before the ice plants shut down for good. File photos courtesy of the Union-Bulletin.

 

Artrain USA, a rolling museum with three cars of Native American art & culture, was hosted in Walla Walla by ArtWalla. It was parked behind the Flatiron Building for tours from the 19th to 26th of November 2006. Photos by Joe Drazan.

"Delicate Balance" sculpture by Wayne Chabre still stands at Main & Palouse.

Marcus Whitman statue

see www.artrain.org  for more on the organization that began in 1971. It retired the train in 2008.

 

Union Pacific Railroad's Golden Spike Centennial Expo train arrived April 10th, 1969. File photos courtesy of the Union-Bulletin.

Old locomotives almost identical to the two that met at Promontory, Utah in May 1869

Train parked by old Union Pacific passenger Depot at West end of Main Street.

Santa Claus Special train arrived at the Northern Pacific Depot on November 28, 1958 with 400 kids in five passenger cars sponsored by the Early Birds Club. File photos courtesy of the Union-Bulletin.Parade of cars

Miss Merry Christmas standing in aisle

Jena Christopher is Miss Merry Christmas

Cyndra Lloyd, Santa Claus, unknown boy, and Rosie Courson

Parade of cars forms to transfer Santa to Downtown site.

Union Pacific railroad depot in Waitsburg with three snapshots from the 1950s courtesy of the Dorval-Greene family archives.

Photo from the 1974 U-B Progress Edition

Station in right front of photo

McKeen motor car #604 running from Dayton to Walla Walla.

mid 1950s 

mid 1950s

William A Dorval, Station Agent in the Waitsburg Depot, retired in 1961 as one of the last telegraphers on the line. 

1964 aerial view during flooding.