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- Embro Wn.
- Men in jackets and fedoras pose beside Great Northern Railway tracks, derailed freight cars and a steam locomotive with a traveling crane in Embro (King County), Washington. Shows construction debris and wrecked track on the ground.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Hoisting machinery--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad accidents--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad freight cars--Washington...
- 1917 June 20 [?]
- Tye, Wn.
- View of frame buildings, wooden covered walkways, a coal tower, and freight cars on Great Northern Railway tracks in Tye (King County), Washington. Shows fire damaged trees on eroded hillsides.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; Tye (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Cities & towns--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad facilities--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Shelters--Washington (State)--King...
- 1917 May 29
- Snowshed construction
- Snowshed construction on the Great Northern Railway line near Stevens Pass in King County, Washington. Shows freight trains, lumber piles, a traveling construction crane, timber cribbing and a snowshed. Signs on frame buildings read: "Horse Shoe...
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Construction--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Hoisting machinery--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad construction &...
- 1917 August 21
- Snowshed repair
- View of a timber and concrete snowshed with a damaged roof near Stevens Pass in King County, Washington. Shows rocks and timber debris from probably a snow slide. Fire damaged trees are on steep slopes near freight cars, construction supplies and...
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Avalanches--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad maintenance & repair--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Ruins--Washington (State)--King...
- 1917 October 17
- Snowshed construction
- Construction workers use ropes to lift timbers for frame cribbing at a snowshed construction site near Stevens Pass in King County, Washington. Workers stand near stacks of lumber and on Great Northern Railway tracks.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Construction--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad construction & maintenance--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad construction...
- 1917 October 7
- West End
- Construction workers shovel debris from Great Northern Railway tracks after a rock slide near Stevens Pass, probably at the west end of the first Cascade Tunnel, in King County, Washington. Shows frame snowshed scaffolding, cribbing and a traveling...
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Landslides--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad construction & maintenance--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad construction...
- 1917 June 23
- Snowshed construction
- Construction workers are near Great Northern Railway tracks, piles of lumber and a frame snowshed under construction near Stevens Pass in King County, Washington.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Railroad construction & maintenance--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad facilities--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.;...
- 1917 September 20
- Snowshed construction
- View of snowshed construction near Stevens Pass in King County, Washington. Workers move timbers for a covered snowshed over double Great Northern Railway tracks. Traveling cranes are on the wooden snowshed. Shows rock debris and fire damaged trees...
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Hoisting machinery--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad construction & maintenance--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad...
- 1917 September 30
- Embro
- Men stand on Great Northern Railway tracks near flat bed cars at a snowshed construction site in Embro (King County), Washington. An excavator clears away rocks, probably from a snow or rock slide.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; Embro (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Landslides--Washington (State)--Embro--1910-1920.; Railroad construction & maintenance--Washington (State)--Embro--1910-1920.; Railroads--Washington...
- 1917 July 7
- Backfill
- A Marion steam shovel, Model 40, moves a pile of dirt from a rock or snowslide near Stevens Pass in King County, Washington. Great Northern Railway tracks are on the eroded hillside and workers with shovels stand on a timber retaining wall.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Landslides--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad construction & maintenance--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Steam shovels--Washington...
- 1917 September 8
- Embro, Washington
- People walk on Great Northern Railway tracks near frame buildings in Embro (King County), Washington. Shows fire damaged trees on a steep slope, and a sign on a building that reads: "Embro."
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; Embro (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Cabins--Washington (State)--Embro--1910-1920.; Cities & towns--Washington (State)--Embro--1910-1920.; Railroad tracks--Washington (State)--Embro--1910-1920.
- 1917 September 8
- Derailment at Embro
- Steam rises from a traveling crane beside Great Northern Railway freight cars derailed at Embro (King County), Washington. People and stacks of lumber are on the railroad bed. A sign near frame buildings reads: "Embro."
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; Embro (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Cities & towns--Washington (State)--Embro--1910-1920.; Hoisting machinery--Washington (State)--Embro--1910-1920.; Railroad accidents--Washington (State)--Embro--1910-1920.
- 1917 May 25
- Snowshed construction
- View of the construction of a framed timber snowshed beside Great Northern Railway tracks near Stevens Pass in King County, Washington. Freight cars filled with probably sand are on tracks near piles of rebar. Shows a traveling crane, frame...
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Railroad construction & maintenance--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad facilities--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.;...
- 1917 August 25
- Snow shed construction
- View of construction of a snowshed near Stevens Pass in King County, Washington. Workmen are on Great Northern Railway tracks or on the shed roof with a traveling crane. Shows debris from a rock slide and an eroded, fire damaged hillside.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Hoisting machinery--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Landslides--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad construction &...
- 1917 July 14
- Rock slide at snowshed
- A workman walks on Great Northern Railway tracks beside a snowshed near Stevens Pass in King County, Washington. Shows piles of rocks cleared from tracks, stacks of lumber and fire damaged trees on the mountain.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Landslides--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad tracks--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Rocks--Washington (State)--King...
- 1917 June 13
- Rock slide
- Men stand on the roof of a concrete retaining wall for a snowshed near Stevens Pass in King County, Washington. Boulders from a rock or snowslide are piled on the roof near a stack of lumber, ladders and a wooden tripod.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Landslides--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Retaining walls--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Rocks--Washington (State)--King...
- 1914 April 27
- Snowshed construction
- View of snowshed construction on Great Northern Railway tracks near Stevens Pass in King County, Washington. Shows workmen on tracks, stacks of timber beams, and a Marion steam shovel, Model 40, on an eroded hillside. Fire damaged trees are on the...
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Railroad construction & maintenance--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad facilities--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.;...
- 1917
- Derailment, Great Northern Railway
- Workers in overalls hold shovels and stand beside a Great Northern Railway locomotive and a derailed freight car near Stevens Pass in King County, Washington. Shows piles of lumber for snowshed construction, and eroded, fire damaged mountain slopes.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Lumber--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad accidents--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad construction &...
- 1914 July 21
- Snowshed construction
- View of construction workers, a locomotive and stacks of timber near a snowshed under construction near Stevens Pass in King County, Washington. Frame buildings and a traveling crane are near Great Northern Railway tracks.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Railroad construction & maintenance--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad locomotives--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.;...
- 1917 September 20
- Snowshed at Embro
- View of a wooden snowshed under construction at Embro (King County), Washington. Laborers work beside Great Northern Railway tracks, a locomotive, and freight cars filled with probably sand. Shows frame buildings, piles of rebar and lumber.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; Embro (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Railroad construction & maintenance--Washington (State)--Embro--1910-1920.; Railroad construction workers--Washington (State)--Embro--1910-1920.; Railroad freight...
- 1917 August 17
- Rock slide on tracks, Great Northern Railway
- A traveling crane is above a damaged frame retaining wall and cribbing near Stevens Pass in King County, Washington. Shows workers near a pile of snow, a freight car, rocks piled over the track and an eroded, fire damaged hillside.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Hoisting machinery--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Landslides--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad maintenance &...
- 1917 June 23
- Snowshed
- Traveling construction crane on a frame snowshed with wooden cribbing beside Great Northern Railway tracks, probably near Embro (King County), Washington. Fire damaged and eroded hillsides and piles of snow are nearby.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Hoisting machinery--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad construction & maintenance--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad...
- 1917 June 30
- Eroded slope
- Men stand on Great Northern Railway tracks destroyed by probably a rock slide on an eroded mountainside in King County, Washington. Shows fire damaged trees on the slope and a portion of a wooden snowshed.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Erosion--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Landslides--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad tracks--Washington (State)--King...
- 1917 October 26
- Rock slide
- A Marion steam shovel, Model 40 moves rocks from a rock slide or snowslide on Great Northern Railway tracks in King County, Washington. Men use shovels to move rocks. Shows a wooden snowshed and fire damaged trees on a mountain.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Digging--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Landslides--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad construction & maintenance--Washington...
- 1917
- Great Northern locomotive
- View of a Great Northern Railway locomotive on tracks at Embro (King County), Washington. Workers and a construction excavator are on a wooden snowshed roof. Mountains are in the distance.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Hoisting machinery--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad construction & maintenance--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad...
- 1917 August 16
- Snowshed
- Steam rises from a Great Northern Railway locomotive beside a frame snowshed in probably Embro (King County), Washington. Freight cars, frame buildings and a fire damaged hillside are nearby.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; Embro (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Railroad facilities--Washington (State)--Embro--1910-1920.; Railroads--Washington (State)--Embro--1910-1920.; Snowsheds--Washington (State)--Embro--1910-1920.
- 1917 September 8
- Embro
- A steam powered "Bucyrus" traveling crane and a Great Northern Railway freight car filled with rocks are in Embro (King County), Washington. Shows workers on a flat bed car or between tracks. A frame building sign reads: "Grant Smith & Company,...
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; Hoisting machinery--Washington (State)--Embro--1910-1920.; Railroad construction & maintenance--Washington (State)--Embro--1910-1920.; Railroad freight cars--Washington (State)--Embro--1910-1920.
- 1917 June 29
- Great Northern Railway derailment
- Men stand on Great Northern Railway tracks near freight cars and a derailed caboose in probably Embro (King County), Washington. Frame buildings and a smokestack are beside tracks. Shows a Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad car, a...
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; Embro (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Railroad accidents--Washington (State)--Embro--1910-1920.; Railroad employees--Washington (State)--Embro--1910-1920.; Railroad freight cars--Washington...
- 1917 May 25
- Men on snowshed
- View of workmen with shovels and small gauge construction tracks on top of a wooden snowshed at probably Embro (King County), Washington. Frame buildings in Embro are beside Great Northern Railway tracks and freight cars.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; Embro (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Railroad construction & maintenance--Washington (State)--Embro--1910-1920.; Railroad construction workers--Washington (State)--Embro--1910-1920.; Railroad...
- 1917 August 24
- Embro
- Men stand on a platform beside derailed freight cars filled with rocks in Embro (King County), Washington. Stacks of supplies are piled beside Great Northern Railway tracks. A steam locomotive and traveling crane are near frame buildings. Shows an...
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; Embro (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Hoisting machinery--Washington (State)--Embro--1910-1920.; Railroad accidents--Washington (State)--Embro--1910-1920.; Railroad construction workers--Washington...
- 1917 June 29
- Snow slide
- A man stands in deep snow in front of a snow pile on a slope near Stevens Pass (King County), Washington. Shows lumber debris, cables, a shovel and probably the roof of a snowshed. Fire damaged trees are on the mountain.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Avalanches--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Debris--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad facilities--Washington (State)--King...
- 1917 May 20
- Snow slide
- Men stand and pose beside a pile of snow, probably from a snowslide near Stevens Pass (King County), Washington. Shows timber debris and fire damaged trees on the steep mountain slope.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Avalanches--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Debris--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad construction workers--Washington...
- 1917 May 20
- Snow slide
- A man and woman stand near a generator or drill, Great Northern Railway tracks and a frame snowshed in King County, Washington. Shows construction equipment, repairmen and a pile of snow from a snowslide.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Avalanches--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Machinery--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Snowsheds--Washington (State)--King...
- 1917 June 10
- Snowshed debris
- View of lumber debris from a snowshed in probably King County, Washington. Shows loose rocks and dirt and damaged wooden cribbing.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Debris--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Snowsheds--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.
- 1917 August 5
- Snow slide
- Men repair damage on a snowshed roof near Stevens Pass (King County), Washington. Shows piles of snow on top of frame cribbing, and fire damaged hillsides.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Avalanches--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad construction workers--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad facilities--Washington...
- 1917 June 17
- Snow shed repair
- Workmen stand on damaged wooden snow fence structures on probably a snowshed near Stevens Pass (King County), Washington. Shows wooden and concrete retaining walls and a traveling crane.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Railroad construction workers--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad maintenance & repair--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Retaining...
- [1917?]
- Rotary snowplow
- Blown snow from a locomotive and rotary snowplow on probably Great Northern Railway tracks in King County, Washington.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Railroad snowplow locomotives--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Snow removal--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.
- 1911 [?] May 20
- Rotary snowplow
- Blown snow from a locomotive and rotary snowplow on probably Great Northern Railway tracks in King County, Washington.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Railroad snowplow locomotives--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Snow removal--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.
- 1911 [?] May 20
- Snowshed construction
- Views of workers on a wooden snowshed and on lumber on freight cars on Great Northern Railway tracks near Stevens Pass (King County), Washington. Smoke rises from a traveling crane.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Hoisting machinery--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad construction & maintenance--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad...
- 1917 September 30
- Snowshed construction
- Workers and a traveling crane are on a snowshed roof in King County, Washington. Shows a pile of timber posts and fire damaged trees on a hillside near Stevens Pass.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Hoisting machinery--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad construction & maintenance--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad...
- 1917 October 18
- Snowpack
- Men stand beside packed snow from a snowslide near Stevens Pass (King County), Washington. Workers stand on timber snowshed scaffolding.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Avalanches--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad construction & maintenance--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad construction...
- 1917 July 9
- Snowpack
- Men hold shovels and stand on a snow covered snowshed roof near Stevens Pass (King County), Washington. Shows timber debris and block and tackle cables. Fire damaged trees are nearby.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Avalanches--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Hoisting machinery--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad construction &...
- 1917 May 10
- Snowshed construction
- Construction workers pose at a snowshed near Stevens Pass (King County), Washington. Men stand on timber posts near a traveling crane and a concrete retaining wall.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Hoisting machinery--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad construction & maintenance--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Railroad...
- [1917?]
- East Portal, Martin Creek Tunnel
- A man in a suit and hat stands on Great Northern Railway tracks at what is identified as the Martin Creek tunnel in King County, Washington. A cable is looped around a wooden support pillar.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Railroad tracks--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Tunnels--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.
- 1917 November 15
- Scenic Hot Springs
- A man poses on cross-country skis in front of the Scenic Hot Springs Hotel, built by the Great Northern Railway Company as a destination resort, in Scenic (King County), Washington. The log and frame three-story hotel has a gambrel roof with dormer...
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; Scenic Hot Springs Hotel (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Scenic (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Hotels--Washington (State)--Scenic--1910-1920.; Skiing--Washington (State)--Scenic--1910-1920.
- 1917 April 29
- Cabin construction
- Men pose in deep snow beside frame cabins in probably King County, Washington. Shows a frame building under construction, snow drifts and tree covered mountains.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Building construction--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Cabins--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Snow--Washington (State)--King...
- 1914 April 28?
- Fire damage
- Aerial view of a fire damaged mountain slope, probably along the route of the Great Northern Railway, in the Cascade Range in possibly King County, Washington. Shows tree trunks and rocks on the deforested slope.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; Deforestation--Washington (State)--1910-1920.; Cascade Range--1910-1920.; Forest fires--Washington (State)--1910-1920.; Mountains--Washington (State)--1910-1920.
- [1917]
- Fire damage
- Aerial view of a fire damaged mountain slope, probably along the route of the Great Northern Railway, in the Cascade Range in possibly King County, Washington. Shows tree trunks and rocks on the deforested slope.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; Deforestation--Washington (State)--1910-1920.; Cascade Range--1910-1920.; Forest fires--Washington (State)--1910-1920.; Mountains--Washington (State)--1910-1920.
- 1917 October 17
- Fire damage
- Aerial view of a valley possibly near Stevens Pass (King County), probably along the route of the Great Northern Railway, Washington. Shows fire damaged trees and barren mountain slopes.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; Deforestation--Washington (State)--1910-1920.; Cascade Range--1910-1920.; Forest fires--Washington (State)--1910-1920.; Mountains--Washington (State)--1910-1920.
- 1917 July 22
- Mountain valley
- Low clouds are in a valley, possibly near Stevens Pass, in King County, Washington. Shows a wooden snowshed roof and a frame building on a Great Northern Railway grade.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--1910-1920.; King County (Wash.)--1910-1920.; Clouds--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.; Valleys--Washington (State)--King County--1910-1920.
- [1917?]