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World's most scenic cylinders?

Blog: Culture Check

March 10, 2010

This corner geological formation marks the southern end of Moses Coulee, home to the Palisades, and curves south in a sheer wall of dramatic cliffs — all the way to Crescent Bar and beyond.

It's easy to imagine the scouring flow of ancient floods rushing down this huge channel to the Columbia River. The storage tanks — for grain? chemicals? — are a more recent addition, but surely must be some of the most scenic big, rusty cylinders in the world.

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lambchops 1 year, 11 months ago

World's most scenic cylinders?

These cylinders were purchased in Tonasket, Wa., many years ago by John Sachs, Badger Mountain wheat farmer. He then took them apart and rebuilt them where they stand. By a railroad spur line, that has since been abandened. They are currently owned by his wife, Shirley Sachs, of East Wenatchee, Wa..

irwin 1 year, 11 months ago

World's most scenic cylinders?

Lambchops ... thanks for the good information. Is that the rail line that ran up Douglas Creek to Waterville?

lambchops 1 year, 11 months ago

World's most scenic cylinders?

Yes, it was side spur of that very line. We loaded railroad grain hauling cars at that spot.

SDP45 1 year, 9 months ago

World's most scenic cylinders?

This was on the Bonneville Spur (Bonspur to the railroad) of the Mansfield branch of the Great Northern. Rails were pulled up in 1985.

There was a separate railroad that ran the 5 miles from Douglas to Waterville, called the Waterville Railway. It was abandoned in 1948, but the paper corporation was not dissolved until the early 1970s into Central Washington Grain Growers, headquartered in Waterville.

Dan

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