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Keith Owen's Collection
 
5/2/2024
 
 
 
 
 
By:Keith Owen
Dates:5/25/1974 - 5/5/2020
Album Info:Photos of abandoned ROWs.
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Abandoned YVT ROW
Title:  Abandoned YVT ROW
Description:  Looking south along 64th Ave. The tracks were on the right shoulder here.
Photo Date:  7/11/2018  Upload Date: 12/23/2018 6:08:17 PM
Location:  Yakima, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Yakima Valley Transportation
Title:  Yakima Valley Transportation
Description:  Looking west from 65th Ave down the former ROW. It was abandoned by Union Pacific in 1985 and the rails were pulled shortly after.
Photo Date:  7/11/2018  Upload Date: 1/1/2019 1:16:02 AM
Location:  Yakima, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  71   Comments: 0
Milwaukee Road
Title:  Milwaukee Road
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/28/2018  Upload Date: 12/16/2018 3:54:51 PM
Location:  Lind, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  29   Comments: 0
Milwaukee Road
Title:  Milwaukee Road
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/28/2018  Upload Date: 12/16/2018 3:55:18 PM
Location:  Lind, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  27   Comments: 0
Milwaukee Road
Title:  Milwaukee Road
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/28/2018  Upload Date: 12/16/2018 3:55:38 PM
Location:  Lind, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge
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Views:  38   Comments: 0
Milwaukee Road
Title:  Milwaukee Road
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/28/2018  Upload Date: 12/16/2018 3:56:11 PM
Location:  Lind, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge
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Views:  27   Comments: 0
MILW ROW
Title:  MILW ROW
Description:  Looking railroad west near Lind.
Photo Date:  9/28/2018  Upload Date: 1/7/2019 7:27:02 PM
Location:  Lind, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  26   Comments: 0
MILW ROW
Title:  MILW ROW
Description:  Remnants of the bridge over the NP/BN now BNSF tracks.
Photo Date:  9/28/2018  Upload Date: 1/7/2019 7:27:45 PM
Location:  Lind, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  28   Comments: 0
MILW ROW
Title:  MILW ROW
Description:  Remnants of the bridge over the NP/BN now BNSF tracks.
Photo Date:  9/28/2018  Upload Date: 1/7/2019 7:28:00 PM
Location:  Lind, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  35   Comments: 0
Grain Elevator
Title:  Grain Elevator
Description:  This elevator was served by the Milwaukee Road
Photo Date:  9/28/2018  Upload Date: 1/7/2019 7:28:14 PM
Location:  Lind, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  45   Comments: 0
Grain Elevator
Title:  Grain Elevator
Description:  This elevator was served by the Milwaukee Road
Photo Date:  9/28/2018  Upload Date: 1/7/2019 7:28:28 PM
Location:  Lind, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  24   Comments: 0
Ex-SP&S/BN Bridge
Title:  Ex-SP&S/BN Bridge
Description:  Crossed I-90. To the right a few miles away was Ft Wright Jct with the GN. It was abandoned when the Latah Creek Bridge (behind me) was built prior to Expo '74.
Photo Date:  9/30/2018  Upload Date: 4/18/2019 6:21:40 PM
Location:  Spokane, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge
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Views:  41   Comments: 0
EX-UP/MILW Bridge; now a trail.
Title:  EX-UP/MILW Bridge; now a trail.
Description:  This bridge was abandoned after the Latah Creek Bridge opened (to my left) prior to Expo '74. The track continued north for a couple miles (behind me) before crossing the Spokane River on a high trestle just downstream from where Latah Creek runs into the Spokane River. The high trestle is long gone.
Photo Date:  9/30/2018  Upload Date: 4/18/2019 6:22:13 PM
Location:  Spokane, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge
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Views:  29   Comments: 0
Abandoned UP/MILW
Title:  Abandoned UP/MILW
Description:  The UP/MILW line was abandoned prior to Expo '74 in favor of the adjacent SP&S/BN (foreground) and NP/BN (our of view to the right) lines.
Photo Date:  9/30/2018  Upload Date: 4/18/2019 6:22:55 PM
Location:  Scribner, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  34   Comments: 0
Abandoned UP at Fish Lake
Title:  Abandoned UP at Fish Lake
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/30/2018  Upload Date: 5/30/2019 3:14:41 PM
Location:  Fish Lake, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  34   Comments: 0
MILW ROW
Title:  MILW ROW
Description:  The Milwaukee Road passed to the right of and served this grain elevator.
Photo Date:  9/30/2018  Upload Date: 6/24/2019 10:59:57 PM
Location:  Lind, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
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Views:  29   Comments: 0
MILW ROW
Title:  MILW ROW
Description:  Just west of highway 395.
Photo Date:  9/30/2018  Upload Date: 6/25/2019 1:15:49 PM
Location:  Lind, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories: 
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Views:  42   Comments: 0
MILW ROW
Title:  MILW ROW
Description:  Remains of a wood trestle over a dirt road.
Photo Date:  9/30/2018  Upload Date: 6/25/2019 1:17:06 PM
Location:  Lind, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories: 
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Views:  56   Comments: 0
MILW ROW
Title:  MILW ROW
Description:  Remains of a wood trestle over a dirt road.
Photo Date:  9/30/2018  Upload Date: 6/25/2019 1:17:57 PM
Location:  Lind, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories: 
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Views:  38   Comments: 0
Grain Storage
Title:  Grain Storage
Description:  Beside the Milwaukee Road ROW.
Photo Date:  9/30/2018  Upload Date: 7/11/2019 6:29:20 PM
Location:  Lind, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  28   Comments: 0
Abandoned MILW ROW
Title:  Abandoned MILW ROW
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/30/2018  Upload Date: 7/12/2019 3:50:49 PM
Location:  Lind, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  53   Comments: 0
Milwaukee Road
Title:  Milwaukee Road
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/30/2018  Upload Date: 7/21/2019 10:27:43 PM
Location:  Lind, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  22   Comments: 0
Milwaukee Road
Title:  Milwaukee Road
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/30/2018  Upload Date: 8/2/2019 4:52:29 PM
Location:  Lind, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  19   Comments: 0
Abandoned SP&S
Title:  Abandoned SP&S
Description:  This was abandoned due to the contruction of a dam on the Columbia River. Don't know if it was when the McNary Dam (just upstream) or the John Day Dam many miles downstream was built..
Photo Date:  9/30/2018  Upload Date: 9/24/2019 6:01:50 PM
Location:  Plymouth, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  69   Comments: 0
Abandoned SP&S
Title:  Abandoned SP&S
Description:  This was abandoned due to the contruction of a dam on the Columbia River. Don't know if it was when the McNary Dam (just upstream) or the John Day Dam many miles downstream was built.
Photo Date:  9/30/2018  Upload Date: 9/24/2019 6:02:23 PM
Location:  Plymouth, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  51   Comments: 0
SP&S
Title:  SP&S
Description:  This was the SP&S before the John Day Dam was built. Looking west.
Photo Date:  9/30/2018  Upload Date: 10/25/2019 7:37:59 PM
Location:  Maryhill, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic,Track
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Views:  21   Comments: 0
Derail on an Abandoned Spur
Title:  Derail on an Abandoned Spur
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/1/2018  Upload Date: 5/21/2021 1:27:32 AM
Location:  Salem, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Track
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Views:  38   Comments: 0
Abandoned Spur
Title:  Abandoned Spur
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/1/2018  Upload Date: 5/21/2021 1:28:05 AM
Location:  Salem, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Track
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Views:  57   Comments: 0
Abandoned Spur
Title:  Abandoned Spur
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/1/2018  Upload Date: 5/21/2021 1:29:17 AM
Location:  Salem, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Track
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Views:  50   Comments: 0
UP Yakima Branch
Title:  UP Yakima Branch
Description:  Behind me are apartment buildings on the old UP ROW.
Photo Date:  10/11/2018  Upload Date: 11/8/2018 3:02:41 PM
Location:  Granger, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic,Track
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Views:  39   Comments: 0
Abandoned YVT
Title:  Abandoned YVT
Description:  Looking east from 64th Ave. There was a junction here. One line went straight (behind me) and the other turned south alongside 64th Ave.
Photo Date:  10/11/2018  Upload Date: 12/23/2018 6:08:37 PM
Location:  Lind, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  63   Comments: 0
Abandoned Rails
Title:  Abandoned Rails
Description:  This was a spur that served a mill in Oakridge, OR. The mill has been gone for many years. Only the rails are left.
Photo Date:  3/11/2019  Upload Date: 4/29/2019 12:36:20 AM
Location:  Oakridge, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic,Track
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Views:  77   Comments: 0
Abandoned Spur
Title:  Abandoned Spur
Description:  This once served a sawmill and perhaps other industries. This is looking southeast.
Photo Date:  5/12/2019  Upload Date: 9/24/2019 5:59:31 PM
Location:  Klamath Falls, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  56   Comments: 0
Abandoned Spur
Title:  Abandoned Spur
Description:  Looking northwest. This once served a sawmill and perhaps other industries.
Photo Date:  5/12/2019  Upload Date: 9/24/2019 6:00:30 PM
Location:  Klamath Falls, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  69   Comments: 0
Abandoned SP&S
Title:  Abandoned SP&S
Description:  The new line is out of sight to the right.
Photo Date:  5/27/2019  Upload Date: 9/10/2019 9:30:01 PM
Location:  Maryhill, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  56   Comments: 0
Abandoned SP&S
Title:  Abandoned SP&S
Description:  The new line is out of sight to the right.
Photo Date:  5/27/2019  Upload Date: 9/10/2019 9:30:21 PM
Location:  Maryhill, WA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  29   Comments: 0
Fall Creek Jct.
Title:  Fall Creek Jct.
Description:  This was the original SP line before Lookout Dam was built. It then served as a spur to a sawmill and storage track for manned helpers. The rails were pulled several years ago.
Photo Date:  8/9/2019  Upload Date: 9/17/2019 11:45:34 PM
Location:  Jasper, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  51   Comments: 0
Abandoned SP Main
Title:  Abandoned SP Main
Description:  This was the SP main before Lookout Dam was built. When the reservoir is full this is under water.
Photo Date:  8/9/2019  Upload Date: 9/17/2019 11:46:27 PM
Location:  Crale, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  71   Comments: 0
Lompoc Branch
Title:  Lompoc Branch
Description:  Although the rails are still there the branch hasn't been used for a long time.
Photo Date:  8/10/2019  Upload Date: 8/21/2020 8:18:06 PM
Location:  Surf, CA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Track
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Views:  35   Comments: 0
Mothballed Tracks
Title:  Mothballed Tracks
Description:  South of Surf.
Photo Date:  8/17/2019  Upload Date: 1/23/2021 10:47:16 PM
Location:  Vandenberg AFB Runway, CA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Track
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Views:  17   Comments: 0
Abandoned SP
Title:  Abandoned SP
Description:  The siding in the foreground and the south leg of the wye (right) are abandoned. The north leg of the wye and the track heading into the distance toward Lompoc are still used occasionally.
Photo Date:  8/17/2019  Upload Date: 1/23/2021 10:47:42 PM
Location:  Surf, CA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Track
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Views:  21   Comments: 0
Mothballed Rails Into the Base
Title:  Mothballed Rails Into the Base
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/17/2019  Upload Date: 1/23/2021 10:48:04 PM
Location:  Vandenberg AFB Runway, CA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Track
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Views:  24   Comments: 0
Mothballed Rails Into the Base
Title:  Mothballed Rails Into the Base
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/17/2019  Upload Date: 1/23/2021 10:48:45 PM
Location:  Vandenberg AFB Runway, CA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Track
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Views:  21   Comments: 0
Abandoned Pole Line
Title:  Abandoned Pole Line
Description:  Photographed from the Coast Starlight
Photo Date:  8/17/2019  Upload Date: 2/15/2021 3:23:44 AM
Location:  Cuesta Pass, CA
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  30   Comments: 0
Willamette River
Title:  Willamette River
Description:  From the Coast Starlight. The level area at the edge of the trees is the original SP right of way before Lookout Point Dam was built.
Photo Date:  8/18/2019  Upload Date: 3/5/2021 3:08:16 AM
Location:  Hampton[Lane], OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  27   Comments: 0
Lookout Point Reservoir
Title:  Lookout Point Reservoir
Description:  Between Crale and Hampton. The level area in the dry lake bed is the original SP right of way.
Photo Date:  8/18/2019  Upload Date: 3/5/2021 3:08:34 AM
Location:  Crale, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  24   Comments: 0
Lookout Point Reservoir
Title:  Lookout Point Reservoir
Description:  Between Crale and Hampton. The level area in the dry lake bed is the original SP right of way.
Photo Date:  8/18/2019  Upload Date: 3/5/2021 3:08:51 AM
Location:  Hampton[Lane], OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  34   Comments: 0
Bridge Over Salmon Creek
Title:  Bridge Over Salmon Creek
Description:  Abandoned by SP when the mill the spur served closed.
Photo Date:  9/6/2019  Upload Date: 10/27/2020 4:45:06 PM
Location:  Oakridge, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Bridge
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Views:  18   Comments: 0
Abandoned Spur
Title:  Abandoned Spur
Description:  Abandoned by SP when the mill it served closed.
Photo Date:  9/6/2019  Upload Date: 10/27/2020 4:50:30 PM
Location:  Oakridge, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Track
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Views:  22   Comments: 0
Bridge Over Salmon Creek
Title:  Bridge Over Salmon Creek
Description:  Abandoned by SP when the mill it served closed.
Photo Date:  9/6/2019  Upload Date: 10/27/2020 4:51:14 PM
Location:  Oakridge, OR
Author:  Keith Owen
Categories:  Bridge,Track
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Views:  24   Comments: 0


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