Bygone Walla Walla: vintage images of the City and County (and beyond), collected by Joe Drazan: locomotive

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

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Monday, March 27, 2017

Doctor Baker's locomotive and the Rawhide Railroad from Walla Walla to Wallula.

The locomotive as it sat in Pasco at the Railroad Museum in June 2009 (4 color photos by Joe Drazan)

The Mountain Queen (from Up-to-the-Times Magazine, 1914)

Baker's Rawhide Railroad, by Washington State Governor Miles C. Moore, Dec 1918

Dorsey S. Baker

Rawhide Railroad and photo of the first locomotive (WW Bulletin, Dec 15 1915)

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)

Half full bottle of whiskey used for level

Locomotives "Ladd" and "Blue Mountain"

Hunting dog on platform replaced cowcatcher as being more proficient. Illustrations from Estes booklet.

Tailendum of the Estes yarn

Myth revisited by the Union-Bulletin's roving reporter Nellie Nelson in January 1948

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)

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

How the Union Pacific locomotive got to its site in Jefferson Park on its way past Kelty's Auto Parts at 9th & Orchard. The engine arrived as a gift from UP for Christmas 1959, and put in place later in 1960. File photos courtesy of the Union-Bulletin. (Part 2).

400 feet of temporary track laid

Engine was built in 1918 and operated for 38 years

One of two bulldozers pushed the engine

Roy Lowden

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

How the Union Pacific locomotive got to its site in Jefferson Park on its way past Kelty's Auto Parts at 9th & Orchard. The engine arrived as a gift from UP for Christmas 1959, and put in place later in 1960.Thanks to Steve Kelty for sharing the aerial photo. (Part 1)

Retired from service on the Portland-Boise route in 1956, the "Mikado" locomotive originally served in Japan, but was renamed "MacArthur" for patriotic reasons on its return to the USA. (WW U-B, May 21 1961)