Excellent work thank you Bruce

Yes! Definitely a great video thanks for sharing it with us.
I kinda wished that they would revive the old trestles and open up the old lines, for historical events and for the people who love to ride on trains.  
I haven't ever got a chance to ride on a train before. But I love watching them and looking at the videos of the history of those great beasts of iron!   My wife and kids have ridden on trains before, and I said that I have to go try it soon.

I rode a GN freight from Bellingham to Blaine in 1960...I thought it would stop in Ferndale, but I was wrong.  Later, I rode the Milwaukee from RR ave to Sumas and Limestone Junction.  That time I had permission.  I had no idea of the history of the line,  just it seemed odd that a transcontinental line would have this little isolated branch.  And then on foot I chased a Northern Pacific train on its way to Park.  I didn't catch it, and I think it was one of the last. About 1968.

Wonderful : I got to see the concrete plant , and the Papar mill in operation , before it was all removed in our new " enlightened " age of recreation .   I miss the Industrial Bellingham.

Reminds me of a novel i read a few years back "the empire builder" by francis lynde P 1907 - great read

I can't get enough of early whatcom county rail history. I vaguely remember Milwaukee Road cars coming through the sunset area and trains running at street level though bellingham

Quite a fascinating video. Thank you for sharing.

This is absolutely fantastic in both historical value and presentation.   Captivating from the start to the end.

George Raper, exemplary local land surveyor, told me that when he was a kid he saw the trains running along the line through Deming up to Welcome. Indeed. I had to retrace the right-of-way for the SR 542/SR9 roundabout east of Deming, and George was a tremendous help with a bit of information he passed along. Fun times at WSDOT for me.

Excellent! Thanks so much for sharing this history! As one who was born here and grew up in Renton, I love the railroads and their history here in the Pacific Northwest. Well done!

do one on the "north cascades highway" there is a book written by a lady named JoAnn Roe.. very good!

Thanks for this! I spent a lot of time in college at WWU driving around the backroads exploring Whatcom County, and I had picked up a lot over the years since, but this Helped fill in the gaps.

darius ogden mills was also one of the owners of my favorite railroad..........the VIRGINIA & TRUCKEE.........

Very good; thanks Patrick Donovan ( Great grand son)

My grandfather Percival 'Bill' Ferris is at far left. Roy Shetler center,

I Love Western railroad history, thank you so much,
Your ending note were my thoughts exactly, they could make a lot of money reopening those abandoned lines and use it as a tourist attraction, just like what they did with the Skunk tourists logging train

As usual:  AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME! If you could do something on the trolleys & White City amusement park, that would be so cool too. Thanks for putting the time in to make this.

Where to begin, at the beginning, before the beginning?

Newtonian laws of force and motion when applied to the angular velocity of a rotating spherical  body, when crossed by an implied gravitational force that pulls toward the center mass of the body produces a force vector graph that shows angular velocity at a 90* right angle to gravity unopposed at the poles that changes incrementally at each latitude from 90* unopposed to directly opposed at the equator of the spherical body. The only place where both forces could find balance.

Newtonian laws of force and motion predict that if Earth were a spinning sphere with gravity pulling towards its center of mass all unrestricted water on its surface would necessarily have to follow the vector angles produced to the equator and then upward to the point where gravity's fixed and angular velocities increasing forces were equal, but since angular velocity increases with radius it will overtake gravity at some point and propel the water out in a disk and off of the Earth.

Now tell me again about gravity and our spinning globe planet with polar seas. Please?

Sadly none of the companies nor industries nor rail roads exist anymore and were sadly torn down and hauled away or sadly retired and scrapped or has fallen under repair or has rotted away well 99.9 of them.

@5:44 what on earth is that contraption they are hauling along?! Looks like an early prototype of mechagodzilla 😳