While hiking on the Iron Goat Trail a few years ago I stopped at Windy Point to get a picture of the west portal of the Cascade Tunnel near Scenic.Just above the tunnel entrance is an area of half century-old fir trees surrounded by old growth forest. The A.Guthrie construction camp was located here during construction of the tunnel from 1926-1929.
A Lee Pickett photo of the west portal, May 1926.
In this 1928 photo you can see a covered walkway from the tunnel to the construction camp.
A picture of the camp in 1927.
Another view of the camp, looking in the opposite direction from the photo above. The big building on the left is the cookhouse. All the buildings are gone now, but we have a special interest in the cookhouse.
The cookhouse in 1926.
In May 2012 we visited the construction camp, photos are showing the approximate location of the photo above.
Donna is holding an old coffee pot, notice in the 1928 photo inside the cookhouse there are several coffee pots similar to this hanging from the ceiling . The Lee Pickett photo is captioned "The dish up at Scenic." The dishes are still here, and quite a few plates too.
Food dishes?
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