Mill Creek Camp

During construction of the Great Northern Railway Cascade Tunnel in 1926 a vertical shaft near Mill Creek was bored 622 feet deep to the tunnel floor elevation to allow workers to tunnel east and west. The construction camp was located east of Stevens Pass.

 

 

Construction camp in 1927.

 

 

 

Site of the construction camp in 2014.

 

 

 

Lee Pickett stood on the track used to dump spoil from the tunnel to get this photo of the camp in 1926.

 

 

 

Most of the rock from the tunnel excavation has been hauled away from the site, there is still a small area with tunnel rock near the spot where Pickett photographed the camp.

 

 

 

Another view of the camp showing the tunnel axis line.

 

 

 

 

The headframe over the shaft was used to hoist spoil out of the tunnel.

 

 

 

 

The headframe in 1927.

 

 

 

The shaft to the Cascade Tunnel 622 feet below.