John Crosby's photostream

District Materials Manager

D.L. Fuller receives letter from District Material Manager.

Uploaded on Feb 25, 2010

Tacoma Engine House

Tacoma Yardmaster: "902, back down the inbound to clear the cross-overs, then take your power...

Uploaded on Feb 12, 2010

Canal Street Coffee Menu Board

Passenger Train schedule board from Milwaukee Road Depot in Auburn, Wash. I purchased it from the company in 1976 for $15-

Uploaded on Feb 12, 2010

Fred Parlette at the Switch

Pix: View southwest, Seattle Yardman Fred Parlette lines the switch at the Argo Interchange for the...

Uploaded on Feb 9, 2010

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Here's trouble

Well not really. Should not be any problem in that the engine stopped per operating rules so that...

Uploaded on Jan 10, 2010

Seattleyarddeadandreversed

Rereversed (flipped) by Route99West Not sure I can identify these tracks correctly even with the...

Uploaded on Jan 4, 2010

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Seattleyarddeadandreversed

“The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite;...

Uploaded on Jan 4, 2010

Limited Access

Twentysome Coffeehouse Patron: "What'd you think, Warren Buffett's crazy to buy...

Uploaded on Nov 10, 2009

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"Clear Order Board at Kent"

"Third 81 to caboose, clear order board at Kent" "Roger that Rick. At West Siding...

Uploaded on Oct 30, 2009

West Siding, Kent, Wash.

Pix: View North (timetable East). Track to left is the Milwaukee Road Washington Division Third Sub...

Uploaded on Oct 23, 2009

Beverly, Wash.

pix: View west, shot from an Extra West, 1977 J.P. Crosby Milwaukee Trainman

Uploaded on Oct 20, 2009

Columbia River Bridge at Beverly, Wash.

"o.k, this is what Wikipedia says about it: 'The term public art properly refers to works of...

Uploaded on Oct 18, 2009

Off the Rails

"You remember how Gretchen was texting about her rotten day, calling it a 'train wreck' when...

Uploaded on Oct 17, 2009

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Weapons of Mass Destruction

MOST SECRET Dept of Navy Washington, DC 23 June 2006 To Canal Battery 102...

Uploaded on Oct 17, 2009

La Push, Wash 1974

Uploaded on Sep 10, 2009

Train Wreck Chehalis

". . . that's what I said, too much jargon dude; like, if you use some simile like train wreck...

Uploaded on Sep 9, 2009

Bike Trail Extension through Fremont, 1990

"Don't even think it was a slam dunk. We fought for every foot" John Crosby Mayor Rice's Citizens Advisory Committee 1989

Uploaded on Sep 7, 2009