BN train 139 rolls east along the towering cliffs near Wishram. 139 was a secondary freight that made the inside gateway trip to the WP connection at Bieber. Today's train is powered by BN 2529,43... (more)
The most-reliable train for photographs on the double-track mainline south of Seattle in the 1970s was the early-afternoon #139, which more often than not left Interbay with a wild assortment of p... (more)
By the end of the 1970s, none of BN's surviving F-units could be considered "young." But F3A 702--it was the oldest of the fleet, built in January 1947 as a three-portholer for NP. Leading #139 of... (more)