BN 4363,4182 rest outside the Wishram enginehouse waiting for a tardy #139 to show up so they can be added to the consist for the inside gateway run up the Deschutes River Canyon to the connection... (more)
BN 4011 leads the westbound Gorge local on a bright June day. BN had only 2 C415's and by the amount of chatter between the engineer and conductor it appeared this crew and every other train crew ... (more)
Its a quiet night on Stevens Pass. No trains, no snow falling, no sounds. The only thing that breaks the eery silence is a little ballast regulator-turned-snow-plow as it struggles to move back th... (more)
Green signal and white lights giving the clear into Cascade Tunnel. Outside in Scenic, a MoW worker tries to unstick a rather frozen switch as a big BNSF stack train thunders by. The micro plow is... (more)
Priority train, Bedford Park IL. to Tacoma WA., waits in the clear at Merritt as an eastbound vehicle train comes off the 2.2, and passes with dyno's whining.
Apparently NP still had leftover steam bells even as it was receiving late model GP-9s. I wonder if they were shipped from EMD with these bells or were they retrofitted?
No missing this ex-NP unit's pedigree, what with that magnificent bell. This was once a passenger unit, thus the "torpedo boat" air tanks.
It's quiet as the grave in the yard on this weekend as branch line power rests for the weekend. Great paint scheme.
SUPPLANTED FAIRLY EARLY BY THE UGLY DUCKLING SW-1001 THESE ARE RATHER UNCOMMON.
One more day prior to reporting to survival school. That was fun! I got to run an NW-2 but don't think I got a picture.
Ex NP units were not exactly sport models like GN's.
Shorn of its Northern Pacific monad but still in NP green, #9814 is making its stop at Pasco, WA, with the North Coast Limited, now a BN train
Locally, cabooses are used to cover long back-up moves on the main line. It's nice to see one get the respect, and fresh paint, this duty deserves!
No, you're not seeing things, this IS a BN C30-7! It's one of two remaining; the 5549 (also known as Jean-Marc Frybourg's ghost C30-7) is also stored nearby, facing the other direction. The... (more)