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.
@imwhitewolf14 күн бұрын
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.
@wmb52404 ай бұрын
Wow.. great history, sad, been in the cascades & seen the massive snow.
@rockymountainjazzfan18227 ай бұрын
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.
@colvinator16117 ай бұрын
Could they have backed the carriages into the tunnel with the loco disconnected outside ?
@imwhitewolf14 күн бұрын
the reason they pulled the trains out was because of what they burned in the cars for warmth. they didn't want any suffocation. there had never been an avalanche at that site. evidently, when it rained the rain seeped down and lubricated the boundary between the ground and the bottom of the snowpack.
@JamesSellers-yl9jd7 ай бұрын
Excellent video, thank you so much
@stephaniebanks37457 ай бұрын
Thank you for a great video, very informative 🎩👌
@user-bi2iq3zt9m7 ай бұрын
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.......
@LesAtlas7 ай бұрын
I'm an old guy who used to live in Wisconsin. When I was nineteen I had no money but wanted to see the West. So back in the early 1970's, just a few years after Woodstock, I hopped the high line freight route with a friend. He used to work for Milwaukee Road, so he know more than me. We hitchhiked to St Paul and hopped the highball west. Leaving west out of Minnesota on a flat car under the summer sky is the way to travel. When we got to Minot, North Dakota we were about to get humped. My Milwaukee Road friend correctly said we had better get our asses off. We then ended up on another long run to Havre, Montana. It stopped there and we checked out the local nightlife. We went into a bar and had a few beers. Suddenly a well-dressed couple walked in and screamed something at the bartender. He argued back and the couple started throwing balls from the pool table at him. They both had incredibly strong arms and the balls were smashing glass bottles and the mirror behind the bar. The bartender ducked down and retained his good health. My Milwaukee Road friend and I decided that was our cue to leave. A well dressed couple entered and 2 dirty kids, looking like hell from 3 days on a freight train, exited the bar. That was a normal happening in Havre, I guess. We found an old school bus to sleep in. Next morning we caught a hotshot west. That took us to Wenatchee, Washington after a really scenic ride. The train stopped there and we heard that the next hotshot was in a few hours. We hung out in the Amtrak waiting room, since it was close by and had a candy machine for some much-needed nourishment. An old railroad guy was sitting there with an engineer's hat and he said that it was never the same since steam trains went away. That's some true wisdom. (For those of you who are too young to understand, the locomotives used to all run on steam power, but got replaced by diesel and electric in the 1950s.) Anyways back to the issues about Wellington, and the comments above: As we were about to catch out in Wenatchee we were told to bring a jug of water and extra shirts to mask up. We wondered: Why would we need that stuff? After a while in the westbound direction we ended up in a tunnel. It went on forever and ever. It was smokey and pitch black, except for the locomotive's Mars light. After a while we started to cough. And then we could hardly breathe. We put the shirts over the front of our faces. Then we made the shirts wet and put them over our faces to block the smoke. Still couldn't breathe. Gosh, didn't they believe in tunnel ventilation back then? We didn't die but, close second, we ended up in Everett, Washington. So we hopped another freight to downtown Seattle. As we came into downtown, all dirty and looking like hell, a couple of friendly young women spotted us and picked us up. Dress for success. More than 50 years later, I'm still in Seattle, but I satisfy my wanderlust in my RV instead of a freight. Oh, I took my daughter back to Milwaukee on the Amtrak Empire Builder, but that took a different route than that old BN Stevens Pass/Wellington route. I still see some homeless folks down around the area of the Everett hobo jungle, and it reminds me of the good people I met when I first went West, more than fifty years ago.
@qualitycontrol36347 ай бұрын
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
@jakedode7 ай бұрын
That creepy feeling you get is nationwide. demon crat effect...
@brendanbruce61357 ай бұрын
great video! thanks
@billiepeterson19147 ай бұрын
What a great documentary! I appreciate your delivery and thank you for your sharing of information in such a thoughtful, insightful, and interesting way.
@rael546910 ай бұрын
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
@no1ded10 ай бұрын
So,...did I miss it, or was it just omitted. How many people died in this accident?
@davidhayes48149 ай бұрын
Yes, you must have missed the bit that said over 50,000 people died.
@chdreturns7 ай бұрын
2 dead 16 missing (presumed dead)... However thats just the confirmed casualties. Suspected numbers of fatalities go up to 35 at the maximum range. Pretty easy Google search this.
@craigbrowning944810 ай бұрын
What I associate the name "Kelso" with... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j56TnLJ1q76rYp8.htmlsi=g1vECr5vincIe3P2
@Jimmypoopmybooty11 ай бұрын
I used to live there the nostalgia🥹
@TheSalMaris11 ай бұрын
Not a bay you're looking over, but Haro Straight and that's Sydney and Victoria BC over there on Vancouver Island.
@danteaubert364511 ай бұрын
Directly across Haro strait is Victoria, BC - not Vancouver.
@walkingtour_world Жыл бұрын
We visited this beautiful place together. I loved it a lot. Thank you for sharing. I am impressed for Washington 🥰❤
@W7DSY Жыл бұрын
Excellent video Erich. I'm a former Washington resident, born in Seattle, now living in Arizona.
@parkependleton6453 Жыл бұрын
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!
@mikeofwar2684 Жыл бұрын
It's been exactly one year since this happened
@kevindawson8929 Жыл бұрын
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.
@grandmakellymcdonald Жыл бұрын
Very interesting
@GB-go6gp Жыл бұрын
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.
@JonnyHolms Жыл бұрын
Then stop voting 🗳 like a moron. Save your state and vote 🗳 those cronie democrats out!!!!
@yankee97362 жыл бұрын
some people don't respect the law. its a shame because is to keep us safe.
@4estdweller4ever2 жыл бұрын
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.
@davidbreithaupt89082 жыл бұрын
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.
@AngieB1232 жыл бұрын
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
@davidiverson25412 жыл бұрын
My favorite vacation spot.
@TenkoBerry2 жыл бұрын
Good video
@an_overlooked_comment_from2 жыл бұрын
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!!
@StarrDaniel2 жыл бұрын
Fantastic place
@BrycePhelps2 жыл бұрын
Grant! Hi
@dtector42552 жыл бұрын
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? @
@jwarmstrong3 жыл бұрын
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
@663rainmaker3 жыл бұрын
Sharing this information ℹ to my Facebook page 📄 awesome People and Incredible History USA 🇺🇸
@663rainmaker3 жыл бұрын
My dad helped set the Lake Washington bridge 🌉 across the Lake
@663rainmaker3 жыл бұрын
Bebe Bridge 🌉 and incidences and accidents and Wow shakey traffic and loads of wHoooo weeee! Years went past and a truck crash and apple 🍎 every where …. Bridges 🌉 and ouch and months to repair
@663rainmaker3 жыл бұрын
I have experienced a few shakey bridges 🌉 and Washington! Our USA 🇺🇸 Homes
@blocksurvey3 жыл бұрын
Hey Erich, great presentation. Would appreciate it if you could check us out once? Can we collaborate with you.
@adventuresandstuff3 жыл бұрын
Great informative video 👍🏼
@thareallaura7263 жыл бұрын
And, how far is this observatory from the mountain?
@Washingtonourhome3 жыл бұрын
About five and a half miles from where the summit used to be.
@dwlopez573 жыл бұрын
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
@aharonemanuel40103 жыл бұрын
Wtf 😆
@aharonemanuel40103 жыл бұрын
A rainier vista in lacey one in Columbia city 😳 👀
@aharonemanuel40103 жыл бұрын
There's a rainier in Tacoma
@Tygeera3 жыл бұрын
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.
@MontgomeryMall4 жыл бұрын
Very interesting. I had not heard of this disaster before you told the story. Well done!