I can't get enough of early whatcom county rail history. I vaguely remember Milwaukee Road cars coming through the sunset area and trains running at street level though bellingham

@jaywilliams2117

3 жыл бұрын

look up the book "boys of glacier" it is good reading also "the sons of profits" not about railroads but still good local history..... happy reading!

I rode a GN freight from Bellingham to Blaine in 1960...I thought it would stop in Ferndale, but I was wrong. Later, I rode the Milwaukee from RR ave to Sumas and Limestone Junction. That time I had permission. I had no idea of the history of the line, just it seemed odd that a transcontinental line would have this little isolated branch. And then on foot I chased a Northern Pacific train on its way to Park. I didn't catch it, and I think it was one of the last. About 1968.

Excellent! Thanks so much for sharing this history! As one who was born here and grew up in Renton, I love the railroads and their history here in the Pacific Northwest. Well done!

George Raper, *exemplary* local land surveyor, told me that when he was a kid he saw the trains running along the line through Deming up to Welcome. Indeed. I had to retrace the right-of-way for the SR 542/SR9 roundabout east of Deming, and George was a tremendous help with a bit of information he passed along. Fun times at WSDOT for me.

@jaywilliams2117

3 жыл бұрын

"north cascades highway" there is a book written by a lady named JoAnn Roe.. very good! happy reading..

@NipkowDisk

3 жыл бұрын

@@jaywilliams2117 There's another book published a couple of years ago by Margaret Hellyer, "A Home on the South Fork" which talks about Acme et al. in great detail. I'm kind of biased toward it because I'm mentioned in the acknowledgments :)

@jaywilliams2117

3 жыл бұрын

@@NipkowDisk sounds great, I love a good read on local topics ! i look it up..

What a great documentary/upload! Thank you so much, it was well enjoyed.

Thanks for this! I spent a lot of time in college at WWU driving around the backroads exploring Whatcom County, and I had picked up a lot over the years since, but this Helped fill in the gaps.

Reminds me of a novel i read a few years back "the empire builder" by francis lynde P 1907 - great read

As usual: AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME! If you could do something on the trolleys & White City amusement park, that would be so cool too. Thanks for putting the time in to make this.

do one on the "north cascades highway" there is a book written by a lady named JoAnn Roe.. very good!

darius ogden mills was also one of the owners of my favorite railroad..........the VIRGINIA & TRUCKEE.........

Good job 👍

Very good; thanks Patrick Donovan ( Great grand son)

I Love Western railroad history, thank you so much, Your ending note were my thoughts exactly, they could make a lot of money reopening those abandoned lines and use it as a tourist attraction, just like what they did with the Skunk tourists logging train

@5:44 what on earth is that contraption they are hauling along?! Looks like an early prototype of mechagodzilla 😳

Where to begin, at the beginning, before the beginning? Newtonian laws of force and motion when applied to the angular velocity of a rotating spherical body, when crossed by an implied gravitational force that pulls toward the center mass of the body produces a force vector graph that shows angular velocity at a 90* right angle to gravity unopposed at the poles that changes incrementally at each latitude from 90* unopposed to directly opposed at the equator of the spherical body. The only place where both forces could find balance. Newtonian laws of force and motion predict that if Earth were a spinning sphere with gravity pulling towards its center of mass all unrestricted water on its surface would necessarily have to follow the vector angles produced to the equator and then upward to the point where gravity's fixed and angular velocities increasing forces were equal, but since angular velocity increases with radius it will overtake gravity at some point and propel the water out in a disk and off of the Earth. Now tell me again about gravity and our spinning globe planet with polar seas. Please?

Wonderful video Dirty Dan! Don't know how they compromised to the name of Bellingham, but they must have had a lot of drinks at the pub. You should have more likes then you have. Thank you for such a great video, I can see you spent a lot of time on it.

My grandfather Percival 'Bill' Ferris is at far left. Roy Shetler center,

Do one for Sumas!

Great video Thanks. UAF ALASKA FILM ARCHIVES have good raw film of rail history

Nicely done! Save for the last singer! Lol!

Sadly none of the companies nor industries nor rail roads exist anymore and were sadly torn down and hauled away or sadly retired and scrapped or has fallen under repair or has rotted away well 99.9 of them.

Very interesting how these railway company's utilized Street railway and trolley tracks to move coal and logs to the waterfront.

song at 1:56?

like train

@larryzigler6812

2 жыл бұрын

i bee like choo choo two

Now, we got breweries, pot shops.

Seeing how so much of the beautiful giant trees and forests' were destroyed really saddens me. We pillaged the ecosystem and now whine about our loss:( There are a few small areas left to remember the past, Like Berthusan Park, Stimpson Preserve, Lincoln Park etc. in the area, and a few of the historic buildings but everything else is history. Cheers, Rik Spector