Vintage track vehicles

Yeah. Some progress. In Spokane, WA, for the 1974 Expo, Burlington Northern was forced to give up Havermale Island, in the middle of the Spokane River, which was the location of the former Great Northern Ry.'s passenger depot and passenger train yard. They did demolish the station, except one thing--the clock tower. It still stands today. You'd think someone would've said "Save the clock tower," long before Back to the Future hit the theater screens.

 

^^^This pic reminds me of a gentleman that my aunt and uncle in Idaho knew; he was a businessman who, during the Seventies, made his money salvaging train derailments, usually at a penny on the dollar. From autos and trucks (such as you see above), to paper products, food to fuel, and plastic beads to grains, he'd buy it all, salvage everything, then offer it on the spot market for less than the going rates, and make bank, until the Milwaukee Road closed its Western Extension in 1980. Then he changed careers, buying the logging rights on tracts of timber, to turn around and sell the timber to mills.

 

Those people were soooo foolish to be standing there, gawking at an overturned tanker truck. One hit from that armored locomotive, and poof, bystander flambè.

 

Back then, they didn't have "Smart"phones, to keep them entertained