Monday, September 15, 2014

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.
 
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3 comments:

  1. SDP45September 16, 2014 at 12:37 PM

    Good work, Sir, in finding these locations today. This is an amazing post!

    Dan

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  2. Matt CawbySeptember 28, 2014 at 12:05 PM

    Thanks, fortunately the site was well documented by Lee Pickett so it is very easy to navigate around the area and find stuff, or where stuff used to be.

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  3. AnonymousOctober 16, 2014 at 4:25 PM

    I have been wanting to see a picture of the mill creek shaft location for years. Great Post.
    Ted

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