Rocky's Rail: A Spokane Division Trainman 1960-2004

Rocky's Rail: A Spokane Division Trainman 1960-2004By John Langlot and Mac McCulloch. Rockys Rail is a new hard cover book of nearly 400 pages with 50 maps and 98 photographs that recounts the career of John Langlot who hired out on the Great Northern at Hillyard, WA in 1960 and retired from the BNSF Railway at Spokane in 2004. The book is intended for general readers, historians, and rail fans interested in what it was like to work in the running trades in the latter part of the Twentieth Century.

WFEX cars would be reverse routed to the GN

micro-plywood

The last lot of 1956

Photos in RS 35 show the building was painted all white after it was shortened

This lot of cars were painted mineral red when built

EXTENDED TO 92' ABOUT 1924

The Accurail cars

The kit can be built either left-handed

and carried 30-inch round roof hatches

with trucks and magnetic couplers

grain was hauled in boxcars

RS-412 - GN 1937-1942 40-foot Wood Sided boxcars