RailPictures.Net Photo: BN 2220 Burlington Northern Railroad EMD GP30 at Seattle, Washington by Bill Edgar

Community Response

Locomotive Details

Location/Date of Photo


Views: 8,438 Favorited: 34
Since added on June 02, 2016

+ Add to Favorites

+ Subscribe

+ Add to Photo Album

+ Post a Photo Comment

» Burlington Northern Railroad (more..)
» EMD GP30 (more..)

» Interbay roundhouse
» Seattle, Washington, USA (more..)
» April, 1976

Locomotive No./Train ID

Photographer

» BN 2220 (more..)
» Unknown

» Bill Edgar (more..)
» Photographer Profile

Remarks & Notes

This is no April Fool's joke. A quartet of former Erie-Lackawanna Alco C425s arrived at BN's Interbay facilities en route from the newly formed Conrail to new owner BC Rail. BN handled the units west from Chicago and once out of Seattle, up to Vancouver, BC for delivery. Here they rest their heels in the company of x-CBQ GP30 2220 (CBQ 943, built 5/62). A BN engineer friend of mine got his hands on one of those CBQ Mars Light sets, wired it up in a portable box, and used to use it on the top of the low hood when running transfer jobs around Seattle's water front. He told me the Mars Light was more effective than the air horns in stopping traffic.

Photo Location Map

Photo Comments (2)

View Larger Map

User Photo Albums Containing this Photo (9)

+ Add to Album

Exotic Album created by member Nathan Richters	Album Views: 1,745,660
Looking for rare, obscure, or otherwise exotic locomotives? Look here!

Paint Schemes Album created by member Nathan Richters	Album Views: 1,830,244
Not just heritage schemes, not just commemorative schemes - this album is devoted to some of the world's most interesting paint schemes, past or present.

And Now For Something Completely Different Album created by member ollie	Album Views: 83,941
Oddities and rare occurrences.

EMD GP30 Album created by member ollie	Album Views: 102,589
My favorite diesel model

DreamTrains Album created by member coco13cos	Album Views: 5,282,349
Over 50.000 of RP's most appreciated and beautiful photos.

The Way it Used to Be Album created by member ckeefer58	Album Views: 454,530
Things change. Railroads are no different. A collection of images showing the railroads as they used to be.

ALCo World Album created by member Rolf Stumpf	Album Views: 286,472
A world-spanning collection of diesel locomotives from ALCo, MLW and Bombardier.

Classic Railroading Album created by member Chessiefan2	Album Views: 1,072,222
Railroading in the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, basically anything but the 2000s.

Turntable Album created by member Daniel Minaca	Album Views: 318,600
RPN exhaustive pictures (over 4700) with turntables, roundhouses & transfer tables.

Add to Photo Album or Get Your Own Photo Album

EXIF Data for this photo: [What's this?]

No header data found for this image.

Photo Copyright © 2016 Bill Edgar. All Rights Reserved. Photo Usage Policy
This website Copyright © 2002-2026. All Rights Reserved.