Snoqualmie: Trains, Bridges, and Power Plants

A collection of footage shot on May 8th, 2010, depicting old train bridges, the Northwest Railway Museum's "Cascade Foothills Limited", and the Snoqualmie Falls power plants.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• snoqualmie
• falls
• power
• plants
• train
• rail
• railroad
• railway
• northwest
• museum
• trestle
• bridge
• old

[themhunta]

Where are the abandoned tracks you show (trestle in the woods)? I've lived in North Bend my whole life and haven't come across that particular spot where the (abandoned) tracks have been left. Most of what I've seen has been converted to the Snoqualmie Valley Trail...

[weekendrailroader]

@themhunta The trestle is located between Southeast Mill Pond Road and the Snoqualmie River. The track used to come out of the Weyerhaeuser Mill, cross Southeast Mill Pond Road, and then cross the Snoqualmie river on a steel truss bridge before connecting with the Northern Pacific line (where the Northwest Railway Museum's compound is now). The trestle shown in the video was the lead-up trestle to the steel truss. The steel truss bridge was removed in 2005, but the lead-up trestle survives.

[skyvalley67]

Another good video . There are a couple of pieces of MOW track equipment that I remember in the collection up there. The old "Parsons Crane" that we laid rail with at Monroe the first year I worked for the GNRR and a "ballast regulator" that I helped members get before it was to be scrapped (I was in the Work Equipment shop at Everett as a mechanic at the time). Good job! Used to be skyvalley 1949

[weekendrailroader]

I think that both of those pieces are still there. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Great Northern crane is a small, yellow 4-wheel crane with a GN herald on the side. The ballast regulator was recently restored:

[themhunta]

@weekendrailroader. Oh ok, for some reason I thought this was in North Bend, not Snoqualmie. I watched it again and it doesn't say anywhere that it was in North Bend, so I'm not sure where I got that idea ;) I remember that trestle, but I didn't realize that any of the tracks remained. I know exactly where this is now...

[biggdaddy2001]

wow that looks old well the tresle does id like to have it in my yard for a conversation peice