Chehalis - Centralia Railroad
In September of 2014, Penn Rail Videos made an epic trip to the Pacific Northwest corner of the United States. During our visit to the region, we managed to see lots of different railroading action.
Providing us with some steam action, here is the Chehalis - Centralia Railroad operation in Chehalis, Washington. We follow the train westbound towards Clinton on a warm Saturday afternoon. #15 is a 2-8-2 Mikado-type steam locomotive built in 1916.
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Chehalis, Washington, USA | Virtual Railfan LIVE
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Actual start date: 10/29/19
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ABOUT THIS FEED:
Chehalis, Washington is on the Seattle Subdivision of the BNSF Railway, which extends 176.6 miles southward from Seattle to Vancouver, Washington (joint with Union Pacific) on former Northern Pacific trackage.
BNSF’s Seattle Subdivision is one of the busiest rail lines in the Pacific Northwest. BNSF and UP run a variety of unit trains plus intermodal, mixed merchandise, and many locals. In addition to freight traffic, the subdivision hosts 10 Amtrak trains: 4 Cascades each direction, plus the north and southbound Coast Starlight.
When’s the next train? Yeah, we get this a lot. You can figure out the next Amtrak passenger train with this handy link:
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Mount Rainier Historical Train Ride
Mt. Rainier Railroad and Logging Museum
Located in the small town of Elbe in beautiful Washington State is a heritage railroad south of Mount Rainier National Park. Passengers enjoy steam train rides through the forest and across the glacial fed Upper Nisqually River to a museum located in Mineral, Washington. Museum exhibits offer a chance to explore a comprehensive collection of steam logging locomotives and discover the stories behind the pioneers of railroad logging camps in the early to mid 1900's.
Elbe
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Elbe is a census-designated place in Pierce County, Washington, Washington, United States. The population was 29 at the 2010 census.
North to Chehalis Part #2: Featuring the Chehalis Steam Train
Part 2 of our Northbound trip towards Chehalis.
Model Train Festival 2014
Experience the sights and sounds of the Washington State Historical Society's longest-running annual event. Model Train Festival 2016 is a spectacular display of railroading history and holiday magic designed to entertain families, railroad buffs and model train enthusiasts alike.
Flooding in Washington State, thousands forced to evacuate
(9 Jan 2009) SHOTLIST
AP Television
Chehalis, Washington
1. Wide of flooded inn
2. Mid of car stranded in flood water
3. Various of flood waters
4. Restaurant in flood water
5. Wide of flooded area
6. Stop sign rising above water
7. Various of flooded roads
8. Flooded inn
9. Various of flood waters
10. Stranded trucks
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rafael Dominguez, truck driver:
A lot of these drivers are prepared, a couple I've talked to already they're shy on funds, the bottom line is we're losing a lot we're losing a lot of income due to these kind of disasters.
AP Television
Orting, Washington
12. Mud in house
13. Various of homeowner Tammy Elliott opening her flooded fridge
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tammy Elliott, homeowner:
We actually started evacuating yesterday early at eight in the morning putting things up and things started coming really fast within a couple of hours we had to get out of here, we wouldn't have gotten any of our cars out or anything.
15. Water passing under bridge
16. Various of Elliott on a boat
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Carnation, Washington
17. Various aerials of flooded town
18. Aerials of flooded farm and road
STORYLINE:
The rain subsided on Thursday, giving hope to flood-endangered towns in Western Washington that the worst might soon be over. But major highways in the state remained blocked by slides and high water, and thousands of residents were still out of their homes.
Just 13 months after major floods devastated much of the region, officials feared this round of widespread flooding would be even worse.
A 20-mile stretch of Interstate 5 around Chehalis was closed on Wednesday evening due to high water, 3 feet deep in some places. All east-west highway passes through the Cascades also were closed by avalanches and the threat of more slides.
Scores of trucks were stranded at truck stops and waysides along the freeways.
No serious injuries were reported from the flooding that began on Wednesday after warm temperatures and heavy rains rapidly melted deep snow that had dumped on the Cascade mountains over the weekend.
Ten inches of snow melted in a 12-hour period at Snoqualmie Pass, according to a weather service meteorologist.
The National Weather Service posted flood warnings for about two dozen rivers in 14 Western Washington counties, with flood warnings also in effect for seven counties on the east side of the state.
The service said rain-soaked hillsides were at high risk for landslides, and Amtrak passenger train service out of Seattle was suspended due to slide danger.
Flooding in December 2007 closed I-5 at Chehalis for four days and caused widespread damage in the area halfway between Seattle and Portland, Oregon.
The Chehalis River was forecast to crest on Thursday night and by Friday crews planned to use pumps and breach a levy to help the water drain out.
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Ghost train to South Bend
Stop motion trip along the old Northern Pacific Willapa Harbor Line between Menlo and South Bend, Washington. The right-of-way is now a trail and I hiked it with a digital camera, snapping a shot every 7 steps, or about 18 feet. When put together as a video, it appears we are travelling in excess of 350 mph!
Music is by JS Bach performed and then deformed by Hotcha Harry.
Washington State History Video
Mr Man's Social Studies Class 2012
Book Launch at the Washington State History Museum
We Are One at the Falling of the Sun is my multicultural children's book that launched September 2011 at the Washington State History Museum. See the fun and festivities for yourself. There are images from the book, an interview, and more.
All footage was taken by George Hoyte.
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Civil War Re-enactment Oct 16, 2016
Civil War re-enactment Oct. 16, 2016 at Toms Farms in Corona California. What led to the outbreak of the bloodiest conflict in the history of North America? About 50,000 people were killed. 620,000 were wounded. This was caused by cannons being loaded with shrapnel.
As sectional discord escalated over slavery, the nature of federal government, secession, the tariff and economics, even religion and culture, Virginia sat precariously bounding North and South, and adjacent to the national capital in Washington, D.C. Even after Abraham Lincoln won the multi-candidate 1860 election as president with only 39 percent of the popular vote — even after seven Deep South states seceded from the Union — the majority in Shenandoah Valley Lexington remained staunchly Unionist, rejecting a chorus of secession calls from across the South.
Rev. George J. Judkins a Methodust minister in Verginia was against sesseion from the north. He was the first to come upon the great and terrible field of carnage and sudoah valley destruction that was 1863 Gettysburg when even civilians were killed and their homes burned. And crops and animals destroyed. Tens of thousands of America’s bravest sons had fallen the previous three days during events now consecrated in the national memory — Cemetery Ridge, Little Round Top, Devil’s Den, the Peach Orchard, and Pickett’s Charge. The turning point of Americans’ epic war with themselves, history would call Gettysburg. Junkin possessed a closer connection to what some would cite as a more crucial event that occurred two months earlier.Junkin believed the American Union of states to be a divine compact ordained by the Lord Himself, designed to help accomplish His purposes among the nations. “God Almighty can’t do without this United States government in His work of evangelizing the world, and he won’t let you break it up!” he thundered from a Lexington pulpit. Tearing it asunder, he warned, would bring forth the wrath of God. Decades later, Maggie’s stepdaughter still bristled with anger over Junkin’s tirades about the issue against her father, Preston, “in his own house.”
He broadcast forth his views publicly and relentlessly:
UNION was always the master-thought in the minds of American patriots.... UNION was the basis of all their actions.... Without UNION there could be no freedom, no national government, no independence.... There never existed a State sovereignty; the supreme power is in the States UNITED: no State ever declared itself an independent nation — none was ever recognized by any power on earth as an independent sovereignty; the doctrine of State rights, or State sovereignty, outside of the limits of State constitutions and the lines of demarcation fixed in the United States Constitution, is necessarily subversive of the national government.
A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the moral issue of slavery.
In fact, it was the economics of slavery and political control of that system that was central to the conflict.
A key issue was states' rights.
The Southern states wanted to assert their authority over the federal government so they could abolish federal laws they didn't support, especially laws interfering with the South's right to keep slaves and take them wherever they wished.
Another factor was territorial expansion.
The South wished to take slavery into the western territories, while the North was committed to keeping them open to white labor alone.
Meanwhile, the newly formed Republican party, whose members were strongly opposed to the westward expansion of slavery into new states, was gaining prominence.
The election of a Republican, Abraham Lincoln, as President in 1860 sealed the deal. His victory, without a single Southern electoral vote, was a clear signal to the Southern states that they had lost all influence.
Feeling excluded from the political system, they turned to the only alternative they believed was left to them: secession, a political decision that led directly to war.
The Beauty of Raymond Washington
Unbelievable beauty on the coast highway
Civil War South - Washington Civil War Association
Washington Civil War Association members discuss Civil War Reenactment from the South's point of view.
Salzer Creek In Concert at Chehalis, Washington July 16, 2017
The Salzer Creek band provided a very nice concert July 16, 2017 which was both educational and entertaining. They performed a mix of Civil War era music as well as modern music as well at the Battle of Chehalis River Civil War Reenactment sponsored by the Washington Civil War Association.
Rayonier #2 at Park Junction on the MRSR Christmas Trains
Rayonier #2 crossing HWY 706 at Park Junction with a Christmas run on the Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad.
Fillmed 12-17-11 by Ryan Marrs.
Riding the Virginia and Truckee
The Virginia and Truckee Railroad operated a standard gauge short run railroad to move ore from the mines of the Comstock Lode to its mainline that ran to Reno. Today it operates as an educational tourist attraction in Virginia City. On weekends they run a steam engine; the diesel runs during the week.
Passenger train in Bellingham, WA
June 15, 2018 at 7:55pm a passenger train goes past the pedestrian trail at Boulevard Park in Whatcom County, Washington.
Trains at the Bellingham Railway Museum
Model trains and hyper kids. Happy birthday!
US 99 Seattle to Portland 1944 Revisited via Dashcam 040514
Before we had the Interstate Highway System, the US Highways were the 'Inter-state' highways from the 1920's until the Interstates first appeared in the late 1950's and though these highways still exist, many US highways slowly were phased out, as redundant to the newer limited access highways they were often adjacent to. So on April 5, 2014, I made this road trip this road trip from Seattle to Portland as if you were to drive the route of US 99 (and Oregon US 99 West into Portland) from 70 years ago - and captured over 1 1/2 hours of scenes with my HP f200 dash cam. At that time, US 99 (and until the mid 1960's) was the main north - south route connecting major cities along the Pacific Coast States, from the Canadian border at Blaine, WA to Mexicali, CA on the Mexican border - and basically was replaced by Interstate 5, except from Los Angeles to San Diego, which was US 101 then. 1944 was when you still drove through any good size cities ranging in size from Kelso to Seattle - and through their downtown areas (with Tacoma being the exception here). US 99 was at that time a mostly 2 lane highway between Tumwater and Woodland - and with WW II going on then, the 4-lane highway replacements were put on hold - and you just didn't hop in the car and go - gas rationing was enforced. But after the war, the cities along the way were one by one being bypassed by more modern (for the times) highways, by the mid 1950's all the 2 lane sections of US 99 between Seattle and Portland were moved to the newer 4-lane highways. Around that same time, the Interstate Highways were started and by the late 1960's, most of I-5 was completed - and when the newer bypass around the late 1940's 'super highway' at Kelso was done in the early 1980's, the route you take today from Seattle to Portland hasn't changed, but there have been constant upgrades (as funding is allowed). In 1944, the Seattle to Portland US 99 was around 193 miles, while today's I-5 is about 175 miles. But US 99 of 1944 bears little resemblence to I-5 of today, although they share less about 36 miles of the same right of way, only a few bridges remain (noted in this video) on I-5 that existed in 1944. I have on the screen, as being viewed, the current street, road or highway name of that particular part of US 99 of 1944 on that particular scene. You can see how much of the urban and suburban areas along the 'Old 99' have developed into major 'strips' with all sorts of businesses, while much of the old 2 lane highway has stayed, for the most part, very rural or 'small town USA'.
*Please forgive me if did not spell correctly or have my facts 100% in order. Editing this took a while and a particular font gave me some trouble (example - the 'R' is missing from Vancouver). Due to the lack of proper software, I had to convert formats and the quality suffered as well, so this video appears a bit rough and inserted titles and comments can be hard to read.*
The vehicle that the dash cam views over the hood of is my 2004 Ford Ranger. It would have been cool to have a restored version of the '41 Ford Pickup that my dad had when I was a youngster, for a more realistic drivers view from thoses times.
My source here for information was my personal knowledge, listening to folks from that generation of 1944, consulting old maps, but also a big thanks to Bill Watson of the Cowlitz County Historical Museum for his help in connecting the biggest piece of this US 99 route puzzle!
*Also, on a personal notation: The scene from Old Highway 99 SW in Thurston County just before the crossing of I-5, before Grand Mound, my grandparents lived on the road just to the right as that scene ends. They moved there during WW II and were there into the mid 1970's. When the state built the 'new' US 99 (now I-5) in the early 1950's, they puchased the right of way (via 'eminent domain') through the then 20 acres my grandparents had at that time, plus Grandad got a job building that part of the freeway as well!
*Since I posted this video, I had a chat with my mom, who is 82 years old, pretty sharp and grew up at my grandparents place I mentioned in the previous paragraph from 1942 to 1952 - knew the Centralia - Chehalis area quite well. She, according to her thoughts, made a couple of corrections: 1- When you drove south on US 99 in Centralia, instead of turning right from Main onto Pearl St., you turned right on then a 2-way Tower Ave., then left at Chestnut St. 2 - She said that when you drove into Chehalis on National Ave, you made a left onto Market instead of the way I drove onto Front Ave., Pacific Ave., Park Ave. and then Market. I had read that the way I drove was southbound US 99 then, so I'll just have to accept who I drove this may have been it ( or a small detour).
So please enjoy this, sort of, virtual tour. This is my first epic YouTube video. I did not add any sound - that's up to the viewer.
Thanks for stopping by!
HH
Image Source: HP F200 Dashcam
US Route 101,Willapa Hills Trail,Raymond, WA, United States, North America
2014.07.06