Comments on: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Nothing Blue http://www.dogcaught.com/2006/08/08/something-old-something-new-something-borrowed-nothing-blue/ Illustrations of Pacific Northwest Railroading Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Raymond Phelps http://www.dogcaught.com/2006/08/08/something-old-something-new-something-borrowed-nothing-blue/comment-page-1/#comment-71327 Raymond Phelps Sun, 05 Apr 2009 05:50:17 +0000 http://www.dogcaught.com/2006/08/08/something-old-something-new-something-borrowed-nothing-blue/#comment-71327 Your great pictures bring back many fond memories of Stampede. Lived there from 1945 through November of 1950, my Dad operated the ventalation system at Stampede Tunnel. Me, my Sister (two years older then me) and my Brother (four years younger then me) went to the little white one room school (one Teacher, three grades). We lived in the West end of the old Stampede Depot, Cody and Maud Caldwell lived in the east end. Sort of an odd duplex. Cody was a telagrapher at the New Stampede Depot at the West end of Tunnel 4. After automating the Stampede Tunnel fans we moved to Yakima Was fourteen years old then. I didn't follow dad's footsteps, went to work at a saw mill but I love trains especially the BNSF my property borders the BN's property. Anyway thanks for the memories, the skiing, hiking, playing in the small Spring runoff creeks, and most of all watching the 2-8-8-2 articulated steem locomotives bring a freight up Borup Loop disapear and then reapear out of the East snowshed of Tunnel 4. their would be one 2-8-8-2 on the point, one between the last car and the caboose and one behind the caboose, the one behind the caboose would be cut off on the fly at the West end of Stampede Tunnel and run light back down to Lester to help the next freight. simular operations took place on the East end of Stampede Tunnel between Easton and Martin. Thanks Again Ray Phelps Your great pictures bring back many fond memories of Stampede. Lived there from 1945 through November of 1950, my Dad operated the ventalation
system at Stampede Tunnel. Me, my Sister (two years older then me) and my Brother (four years younger then me) went to the little white one room
school (one Teacher, three grades). We lived in the West end of the old Stampede Depot, Cody and Maud Caldwell lived in the east end. Sort of an odd
duplex. Cody was a telagrapher at the New Stampede Depot at the West end of Tunnel 4. After automating the Stampede Tunnel fans we moved to
Yakima Was fourteen years old then. I didn’t follow dad’s footsteps, went to work at a saw mill but I love trains especially the BNSF my property
borders the BN’s property.
Anyway thanks for the memories, the skiing, hiking, playing in the small Spring runoff creeks, and most of all watching the 2-8-8-2 articulated steem
locomotives bring a freight up Borup Loop disapear and then reapear out of the East snowshed of Tunnel 4.
their would be one 2-8-8-2 on the point, one between the last car and the caboose and one behind the caboose, the one behind the caboose would be
cut off on the fly at the West end of Stampede Tunnel and run light back down to Lester to help the next freight. simular operations took place on the
East end of Stampede Tunnel between Easton and Martin.

Thanks Again
Ray Phelps

]]> By: Historic Preservation » Dogcaught: A Railroad Blog http://www.dogcaught.com/2006/08/08/something-old-something-new-something-borrowed-nothing-blue/comment-page-1/#comment-3044 Historic Preservation » Dogcaught: A Railroad Blog Thu, 28 Sep 2006 03:28:35 +0000 http://www.dogcaught.com/2006/08/08/something-old-something-new-something-borrowed-nothing-blue/#comment-3044 [...] by Steve EshomAfter my visit to Stampede Pass last month where I stumbled onto the original switchback route, I spent some time on the Internet looking for more information about that line’s history.  What I found cemented my belief that historic documentation AND access to that documentation is vital. [...] [...] by Steve EshomAfter my visit to Stampede Pass last month where I stumbled onto the original switchback route, I spent some time on the Internet looking for more information about that line’s history.  What I found cemented my belief that historic documentation AND access to that documentation is vital. [...]

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