Is this where the road crossed into the Tree Farm, and on up to Chester Morse Lake? I like that seating at Trude. Looks like a couple of spare rails. Boxcab E50
Re: Historic Cedar Falls WA photo links Found this view in the Seattle Municipal Archives. I'm going to guess that the abandoned overhead crossing is the North Bend and Eastern Railroad's overcrossing of the Everett Branch, bridge FF-802. I have some files concerning this bridge, but no diagram to show where exactly it was located, or at what angle it crossed. But it is the only thing I can think of that would have been in the vicinity of Rattlesnake Creek. http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~archives/photos/49/1200/49964.gif Allen.
Hmmm. Note the water over tracks. Would this show in one of your old profiles? Or was NB&E built too much later? Boxcab E50
Oral history Cedar Falls I am enjoying the photos and information in this thread and thought I would add this account of life at Cedar Falls. http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=2454 I have some old Washington county maps from the early 1900's time frame, that I will check to see if any cover this area. Kevin
More history from Dorothy Graybael Additional history from Dorothy Graybael interview. Kevin http://216.254.10.116/essays/output.cfm?file_id=2455
Re: Historic Cedar Falls, WA photo links Great Stuff from Dorothy Scott. I met her a few times at the annual Cedar Falls picnics. She had a picture, only one I've ever seen, of the telegraph shack at Taunton that I wish I would have borrowed from her to make a copy. Ken, here is another picture I came across at the Seattle Muni site, this has to be the tunnel at Landsburg (No. 51) right ? http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~archives/photos/49/1200/49476.gif It is actually part of a two picture panorama of the water department's bridge No. 1, here is the companion shot. http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~archives/photos/49/1200/49475.gif Anyway, not many pictures of that tunnel floating around. Allen.
Interesting! I like the very tidy rip rap, and bulkhead work they've done. I wonder if they'd had some flood damage? Boxcab E50
Allen I found this map in the archives which I believe might show the bridge you speak of. Kevin http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~scri...D&d=MAPS&l=1&p=1&u=/~public/MAPS1.htm&r=1&f=G Overall map view of the area. http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~scri...D&d=MAPS&l=1&p=1&u=/~public/MAPS1.htm&r=1&f=G Another map showing an unconnected spur of the Municipal Railway. This same section in other maps shows the spur connecting to the Municipal branch which ran up to the masonary dam. http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~scri...D&d=MAPS&l=1&p=1&u=/~public/MAPS1.htm&r=1&f=G
Interesting maps! I see a couple of things that have me wondering. The second one opens a bit oddly. Color bars at bottom. Is it just my computer? Boxcab E50
Maps The map with the color bars is a problem on the site itself. Here is another map that has me wondering. In the upper left hand corner is a short spur, with the description "Mountain Test XXXX Co. Spur". The x's represent a word that I cannot decipher. Any ideas on what that might be? http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~scri...D&d=MAPS&l=1&p=1&u=/~public/MAPS1.htm&r=1&f=G
I'm on dialup. With my ISP, I never know if the connection is timing out. The answer to your question is Mountain Tree Farms. It was a log reload. Boxcab E50
Boxy, not to pester you or anything, but did you ever put your hands on the online link to the plans for the Depot? Michael
Re: Historic Cedar Falls, WA photo links Kevin, The words on the map are "Mountain Tree Farm Co.", they were a fixture at Cedar Falls for many years, with a connection track off of the Everett Branch. I must confess I know very little about their history, but I believe they were a logging outfit, perhaps selectively logging within the watershed? I know that the Everett Logger train was pulled off of the branch line after Mountain Tree stopped shipping logs. I think the map you found does show the FF-802 crossing of the North Bend Lumber Co. over the Everett Line. Two partners named Weeks and Vinnage owned the NBLCo and it was often referred to as "Weeks Logging Road" on old maps. There are also two creeks east of Cedar Falls known as Weeks Creek and Vinnage Creek. Allen.
Essay on "Boxley Burst" at Edgewick Interesting essay on the destruction of Edgewick. Kevin http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:vI_-9AS4ABEJ:www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm%3Ffile_id%3D2426+edgewick,wa&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=32&gl=us Thank you for the correction to my post about the Mountain Tree spur.
Map Moncton & Milw This map shows the the town of Moncton and its location in relation to the Milw main, before Rattlesnake lake began to bulk up. Kevin http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~scri...D&d=MAPS&l=1&p=1&u=/~public/MAPS1.htm&r=1&f=G
Re: Historic Cedar Falls, WA photo links Here is a picture from the Seattle Archives showing the offices of the Mountain Tree Farm Co. http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~archives/photos/14/1200/148796.jpg Don't know what the occasion for the large crowd is. Allen.
Barneston-Milw-NP Map This map shows a detailed view of the lines of the NP and Milw at Barneston and the location of the Kent Lumber Co. mill. Kevin http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~scri...D&d=MAPS&l=1&p=1&u=/~public/MAPS1.htm&r=1&f=G
Landsburg Tunnel Below is a link which shows the tunnel at Landsburg, note how the course of the Cedar River was altered. http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~scri...D&d=MAPS&l=1&p=1&u=/~public/MAPS1.htm&r=1&f=G Sifting through the tailings of my earlier mining activity in the archives, I found this image, which is a view from under bridge #1 near Landsburg. Now tell me about the standing train. http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~scri...D&d=PHOT&l=1&p=1&u=/~public/phot3.htm&r=1&f=G Kevin
