When you said, who am I to say ghosts don't exist, hasn't happen to me. DId that ring true with me. I was the same way, didn't really believe. I tell people when ghost stories come up in conversations that they'll never believe it till they see one. I experienced one in Wyoming in a old house we we're renting 11 years ago. Never would have believed it unless I saw that woman with my own eyes. I can't tell you how scared I was. Anyway my granddaughters love when I tell this story.

my dog Buck and I hiked to the site several times. the last time he actually went into the tunnel. the presenter did a great job on this video.

Wow.. great history, sad, been in the cascades & seen the massive snow.

What most people don't know about avalanches (commonly called "snowslides" in much of the U.S. West) is that it is the air concussion that occurs immediately ahead of the avalanche that causes much of the damage and destruction. I lived in or near avalanche country for a number of years and have witnessed some big slides firsthand. In the old days, a common way to look for victims or survivors buried in avalanches was to take the handle off of one end of a two-man long manual logger's saw and use the long saw blade to probe the avalanche, with the hope that the saw's teeth might snag and bring up some scraps of clothing or flesh of the victims. Macabre business to be sure, but some survivors were located and rescued using this rather crude method.

Could they have backed the carriages into the tunnel with the loco disconnected outside ?

Excellent video, thank you so much

Thank you for a great video, very informative 🎩👌

I was raised in the western cascades,I went to school in skykomish where they cut in the helper which was the old ,A n B streemliner units ,the 4 units where cut into the middle of usally 2,3 mile trains ,and it through the cascade tunnel to Merritt or sometimes all the way to Wenatchee ,I knew 2 engineers then, but I hiked up to to the old tunnel in 1971,when I was 12,it didn't have all those trail hiking land marks etc,and I went to the shed,in fact there were sheds all throughout the old route which was actually a higher route than the new built route which eventually connected back to the original,and also. I hoppec a couple times ,through the tunnel to once Merritt and back,and to Wenatchee and back and once I came up from Idaho and cought a freight from Wenatchee to skykomish because it's bad hitchhiking from Wenatchee to the west side,and ya alot of people still hopped around on the trains ,alot of people heading to the east to that big concert Woodstock plus the regulars dreges which also featured the FTRA which were all boozing and raising hell throughout the states, the freight train riders of America ,I got drunk with alot of those caractors and the regs would be back around and tell story's about there trips and meyam etc there were some pretty heavy people,like that all throughout the western cascades,and I met people heading to Woodstock,there are people lost up there in those hills that got frieket out and would jump off the train because when your way up there past the tunnel the train starts rocking Back and forth like your about to fall off the tracks,the train would be doing about 25 or so rpm...in some places, and ya it gets smokey in the tunnel ,ya have to bring jug of water and extra shirts or something to mask up, back then alot of the empty boxcars were always open, now days you hardly see any boxcars like that on modern frieights ,but ya I knew 2 helper engineers Wayne Williams which was our neighbor and roy Austin which his son was my best friend then,Jerry Austin,this was in skykomish,but about wellington wreck,old rumers had it that they couldn't retrieve some people and they are still somewhere up there,but they had Talley anyways ALL people ,and also supposably they didn't find a mailcar shipment of the currency and gold,don't know how much,but I'll bet someone did SEE? ya but that old rumer did have people go trapsing around and trying to figure THAT and as for the town itself ,some of it was wiped,but that too was speculation but most likely fact ,like same goes for people...and not to mention old freight riders throughout time of the history,ya alot of trippy stuff that went on back in the day to now days that sociatv don't know or ever will about the rail riders trampin around .....😮......! Ya so it's pretty cool, Wayne gave me old pictures of derailments in the cascades through out the days of g.n including the toga ridge derailment, funny thing,I don't know what ever happened to those pictures ,there were less than 10 I remember, and s couple other memberabia, I was about 11 12 ,anyways I think my stepdads freind stole the stuff, but I just don't remember.........😮 Ya I remember though when all the railroads merged, and I remember when the brand new green Burlington northern engines and cars came out ,alot just painted over and also new ,the Burlington route engines were gray,and great northern were blue and the old ones orange like the new engines of bnsf today, probably a selute to the couse if ya know what I mean , I use to like the colors of the others too like northern Pacific black yellow ,and s.p.& s. Spokane Portland Seattle ,western Pacific red ,etc all w see were pulling together till it all became GREEN b.n.by about the late 70,s ya pretty cool.......

I'm obsessed with train travel, okay maybe not "obsessed", but I really love train travel......I really enjoyed this video. Thank you very much. Great upload, very informative

That creepy feeling you get is nationwide. demon crat effect...

great video! thanks

What a great documentary! I appreciate your delivery and thank you for your sharing of information in such a thoughtful, insightful, and interesting way.

4:22 What's going on there? That's a steel bridge off to the left. I was going to say, by 1907 we had steel swing bridges in the Chicago area. industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2014/05/romeoville-135th-street.html

So,...did I miss it, or was it just omitted. How many people died in this accident?

What I associate the name "Kelso" with... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j56TnLJ1q76rYp8.htmlsi=g1vECr5vincIe3P2

I used to live there the nostalgia🥹

Not a bay you're looking over, but Haro Straight and that's Sydney and Victoria BC over there on Vancouver Island.

Directly across Haro strait is Victoria, BC - not Vancouver.

We visited this beautiful place together. I loved it a lot. Thank you for sharing. I am impressed for Washington 🥰❤

Excellent video Erich. I'm a former Washington resident, born in Seattle, now living in Arizona.

Great video! I live in Massachusetts and could not care less about rural Washington State. Having said that, KZfaq knows I like history videos and suggested it. I enjoyed it very much, thanks!

It's been exactly one year since this happened

What kind of pussy goes into a lake and is afraid to take his shirt off, or doesn’t wear swim trunks?! Coward! There’s nothing ‘wrong’ with Soap Lake, but apparently you have some self esteem issues.

Very interesting

Excellent video ! As a native Seattleite, I'm proud to live in Washington... Fortunate too. We have a rich & diverse history, and it's nice to see you're telling it, and perhaps educating transplants. Who knows, maybe they'll learn to pronounce the names that come from our native inhabitants, like Sequim.

some people don't respect the law. its a shame because is to keep us safe.

I have an aunt buried there as an infant in mid 1920s. Last name Ehli. My grandparents were German Catholics whose family immigrated to Russia. In 1919 during the Russian Revolution Germans were deemed undesirables and were being systematically murdered. My newly married grandparents were sponsored by the church to immigrate to various sanctuary communities, theirs being Prelate, Saskatchewan where they had 3 daughters. Then they and extended family went south to Silverton, OR for work. Then my grandparents moved to Longview where my grandfather worked in the mills until he retired. Their 1st child born in the states died in infancy and is buried in the Catlin cemetery. Each person buried there has a story. Each one could be just as dramatic. That is history on a very personal level. If you knew the details it would be startling to find out how many ways you might not have been born at all.

My grandfather, William Franklin Heartley, died in the Allen St. bridge collapse. He and my mother's brother, Benjamin, were driving across the bridge. Uncle Ben could swim and survived. My grandfather could not. His body was never recovered.

Oh how I remember when I was 14 in About 1990 and took my moms car. That bridge had 3 signs that said NO LEFT TURN. My smart self took a left and got pulled over. Mind you that was the last time I ever stoled my moms car. Lol

My favorite vacation spot.

Good video

Thank you for sharing! I went to Catlin Elementary school and we used to clean up the cemetery! I’ve always wanted to walk through again but never knew how to obtain a key! Thank you so much!!

Fantastic place

Grant! Hi

Why am i getting death threats from Washington State Trooper Jason Hicks, Attorney Michael Frey and a family member of Prosecuting Attoreny Ryan Jurvakainen and suspected Secret Service Agent Glen Jones in the attempt to keep me from exposing the involved attroenys and agencies as suspects in the multiple attempted murders suspected of being covered up by the Cowlitz county Sheriff's Office that include the attempt to kill Bruce Taylor at 3:AM on 3-11-2015? @

KZfaq has many videos of wooden bridges failing when overloaded trucks try to cross - this bridge was overload when cars replaced horses - plus going cheap on repairs

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Hey Erich, great presentation. Would appreciate it if you could check us out once? Can we collaborate with you.

Great informative video 👍🏼

And, how far is this observatory from the mountain?

Never heard of this. Can add it to West Seattle bridge, Skagit River bridge, Hood Canal bridge, Galloping Gertie, I 90 Floating bridge, that's why Washington is sometimes known as the sunken bridge state

Wtf 😆

A rainier vista in lacey one in Columbia city 😳 👀

There's a rainier in Tacoma

Yeah, Im out there all the time near the Oakville entrance. I always go out there with my dog. Seen a lot of random junk and a lot of bones for sure. I wish people would stop dumping so much. If i had a truck I would pack a lot out but can only take what my car can fit some days.

Very interesting. I had not heard of this disaster before you told the story. Well done!