• Fairchild AFB, WA

  • A general discussion about shortlines, industrials, and military railroads
A general discussion about shortlines, industrials, and military railroads

Moderator: Aa3rt

  by RailVet
 
News story:

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/o ... -loan-win/

Excerpt: "Plans call for removing abandoned track from Fairchild Air Force Base and rebuilding a 2.3-mile section of badly deteriorated track."

The two-mile base railway was abandoned many years ago and had been served by a GE 80-ton centercab locomotive numbered USAF 1669.