It's October 1975 and the Cascadian Cold Storage is loading up with this season's fruit, much of which still ships by rail at this point. BN 1771 is the rear unit of a trio of helpers ready to give a shove to a westbound freight ready to head west over Stevens Pass to Seattle. The helpers will operate to Skykomish, WA. The caboose line up is indictative of the busy local business the BN inherited from GN with local service west to Leavenworth, north to the Canadian border and east to Quincy, WA and beyond.
