The Othello Outlook posted a nice historic piece today, discussing the 100th anniversary of the Milwaukee Road crossing the Columbia River at Lind. Sounds like it was a big job, with unexpected geological problems and cold unending winds that drove workers away.
The writer Curt Andrews refers to the Milwaukee as "the St. Paul Railroad," a description I hadn't heard before. In an email today he explained this unique nickname as the manner in which The Milwaukee Road was called prior to 1927. So now I've learned something new! It would make sense that he would use that nickname for the article, since the subject occurred in the early 1900s.
Nice work!
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
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