Beat up and begrimed, missing bits of its cascade paint, F9A 820 is every bit the road warrior as it rests at Auburn's former Northern Pacific roundhouse in the summer of 1979. An ex-Northern Paci... (more)

Locomotive inspector looks for worn wheels and other defects while giving a once-over to a set of F-units just off a Stampede Pass run. Fascinating to see the rust cancer which is eating at the ca... (more)

Apparently, not all repainting of locomotives into Burlington Northern colors after the 1970 merger were true repaintings. . .witness the Lowey two-toned North Coast Limited side panels revealed d... (more)

It would take a lot more than bondo to repair the damage to ex-NP F7A 726 sustained in a collision/derailment at Sumas, Washington earlier in the year. . .so scrapping the locomotive was the only ... (more)

You hear it before you see it--the unmistakable sound of three EMD 567's throttling up--and here it comes, out of the thick winter fog, an A-B-GP9 set leading the Crew 3 transfer between Auburn an... (more)

Perhaps the last F-unit repainted in Cascade Green, fresh out of Interbay paint shop.

Awaiting scrapping. Little oopsie in Sumas.

The Empire Builder is running north to Seattle after entering the Kent Valley at Auburn. Prior to 1981, Amtrak operated the Empire Builder over the Former NP route through Stampede Pass. Behind th... (more)

SP #4449 is seen passing the platform on the long razed Northern Pacific Auburn depot. The train has just entered BNSF's Stampede Subdivision and will soon begin the climb to Stampede Summit.

Classic lines of a former Northern Pacific F7A are etched in the light of a setting sun as Burlington Norther 730 rests on a roundhouse whisker track next to the assigned Stampede Pass rotary snow... (more)

Southern Pacific no.4449 crosses the Green River on the way down the Stampede Pass to Auburn.

The time-old ritual of a crew change at the caboose is enacted once again as a Burlington Northern grain train swaps out the rear end crew arriving at East Auburn, Washington, as a new crew takes ... (more)

F9A 828, damaged in a derailment, gave up its nose to repair sister #800. On a garden track at the roundhouse, it awaits its trip to the scrapper.

What a lineup! Three generations gather at BN's Auburn diesel shop in April 1980: Former Northern Pacific F7A 752, former CB&Q GP30 2227, and all four of Southern Pacific's GP40X's, passing throug... (more)

Thick fog at Auburn as an F-unit set is groomed for a local transfer run and SD40-2's off a mountain run for Yakima idle outside the Auburn shops.