Trail/Milwaukee Renslow Trestle and Johnson Creek Tunnel near East Kittitas and Boylston, WA

Trestle: (Satellite)

Tunnel: (Satellite)

Looking East:

Street View, Jun 20223

John Harker posted four images with the comment: "This scene was photographed on June 30th 1965, looking up from Boylston Road east of East Kittitas, Washington.  A Milw east bound freight with EF-5 Box motors E39 B-C-D-A and a GP9 was crossing Renslow Trestle (EE-320), climbing a 1.6% grade for about five miles to Johnson Creek Tunnel just east of Boylston.  A Milw Coast Division 1964 employee time table, a track profile and a USGS topo map are included for reference.  No photographer was listed.  John Harker image scan and editing from an original Kodachrome slide."

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West Portal:

Franklin Wirtz, Aug 2022

East Portal:

Franklin Wirtz, Aug 2022

In addition to trestles and tunnels, the Milwaukee had to build a lot of cuts and fills. 

Cut:

a z, Jun 2020

Fill:

a z, Jun 2020

And this is what the fill and cut looks like on a topo map.

1953/57 East Kittitas Quad @ 24,000

Once you know what to look for, the fill and cuts are easy to find on a satellite image. The two blue dots are the locations of the "a z" photos above.

Satellite