Mount Vernon Terminal Railway

Route:: Mount Vernon, WA (2.5 miles)
Headquarters:: Mount Vernon, WA
Junctions with other railroads:: BNSF: Mount Vernon, WA
Radio frequencies:: 160.875
History:: Line built by Puget Sound & Cascade Railway in 1916.; Downtown Mount Vernon track acquired in 1933 from Pacific Northwest Traction Company.; PS&C abandoned in 1939, and track in Mount Vernon turned over to Mount Vernon Terminal Railway.; On March 23, 2005, MVT filed to abandon the southern end of its line from mp 0.369 to 1.172.
Ownership:: George and S. Stephenson
Roster:

Unit	Bldr.	Model	B/N	F/N	B/D	History	Acq.	Ret.	Notes
1	Whitcomb	10 or 15ton						195x	to Skagit Steel & Iron Works (Sedro Woolley, WA), 195x
2	Plymouth	25ton ML6	3744		2/1934	ex (D) Alaska Junk Co. (Portland, OR); ex Carl Weissman & Sons (Great Falls, MT); nee US Engineers - Wiota-Ft. Peck RR (Wiota, MT)	1951	1957	to (D) J. V. Markey (Seattle, WA); to Dominion Bridge V490 (Burnaby, BC), 1959; to Dominion Bridge no# (Selkirk, MB)
3	Plymouth	30ton ML6	4563		10/1943	ex (D) Tauber-Arons Auctioneers; ex Atomic Energy Commission 7 (Hanford, WA); ex Dupont (Hanford, WA); nee Hanford Engineering Works (Hanford, WA)	1954	1985	to John Haakenson (Wickersham, WA); to LWRY 3
4	Plymouth	35ton ML8	4485		4/1943	ex WCTU 4; ex WCTU 2; nee US Army 7604	1975		to Nathon Harper (Gig Harbor, WA); to Western Forest Industries Museum (Tacoma, WA); to Yakima Interurban Lines (Yakima, WA); to Modoc Technical School, 2000; to ????
505	Baldwin	VO-1000	70290		1944	nee US Navy 11	1985	1994	trucks removed, 1994; scrapped
1200	EMD	SW9	17822	4133-18	4/1953	ex TMBL 1200; nee UP 1842	1993

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Last updated: Feb. 13, 2021