Don Cook Photo

Don Cook Photo

Don Cook Photo

Don Cook Photo

GN521 idles while it is pumping air and awaiting clearance to depart the Olds siding with a load of fresh apples from Cooks Orchards cold storage
Don Cook Photo

GN3059 labors up the grade with a 20 car train from Skykomish yards.
Don Cook Photo

GN2581 gets the all clear from the Adrian tower master at the Northern Pacific interchange.
Jim Osborn Photo

The engine and Maintenance of Way facilities just off Apple Yard. Note the rail inspection car in the foreground.
Jim Osborn Photo

Another view of the engine facilities just off Apple Yard
Jim Osborn Photo

Nothing going on at the Apple Yard office until the reefer express arrives from Skykomish -- except a hot checker game of course!
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Stop, Look and Listen at the Chelan unprotected grade crossing as GN1982 approaches.
Note the store front interior detail courtesy of Don Cook's attention to details.
GN1982's unusual wheel arrangement is 2-6-8-0: GN classification M-2. The GN had 22 of these unique locos in service.
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An example of Don's attention to detail is shown by peering into the store front's in Columbia River
Jim Osborn Photo

Another view from the business end of Columbia River.
Jim Osborn Photo

GN2581 rumbles by Bacon Feeds in Ephrata as it works the grade up to Wenatchee.
Jim Osborn Photo

Reefers are being unloaded at the Cook Orchard cold storage and retail outlet in Olds.
All the profits from the apple sales goes toward operating the GN Spokane Division.
Jim Osborn Photo

Spend the afternoon to get a clip and a shave at the Wenatchee Barber Shop.
You might also get another clip and shave at the pool hall next door if you are not any good.
Can you locate the HO scale pool balls??
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The GN electrics clear the tunnel and make the grade up to Apple Yard from Spokane.
There will be a change of power as well as yard work for this train when it reaches Wenatchee
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Don's award winning Wanatchee depot behind the Apple Yard complex.
Note the photographic back ground of a sequence of pictures taken by Don of the actual town of Wanatchee, WA.
Jim Osborn Photo

Don's GN Spokane Division Layout Track Plan