Business car Columbia River was assigned to Seattle in the early 1980s and when not being used found its home on a stub track at King St. Station. The station served Amtrak and now also serves Sou... (more)
Although BN emphasized its Inside Gateway between Seattle and California, they also operated a Seattle based runthrough train to Southern Pacific's Brooklyn Yard in Portland and on to Eugene & Ca... (more)
After arriving at UP's Argo Yard, Seattle, the quartet of E units that will head the Old Timers' Special east, have cut off their train and are being positioned at the diesel facility for their ov... (more)
UP GP30 842 along with a GP30B & SD24B hold at Black River Jct., Seattle, WA, while a UP deadhead move rolls by with UP E9A 951, The Preamble Express, trailing. The deadhead move will leave the fo... (more)
Fred Tolan and his Washington-Oregon Shippers Assn. were very influential in the Pacific Northwest in controlling which railroad got traffic. One movement they controlled was inbound shipments of ... (more)