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 giv... (more)

BNSF 5498 arrives at Appleyard with the daily manifest freight from Spokane. The Stevens Pass line has emphasized intermodal and empty unit train traffic for years under BNSF management with manif... (more)

BNSF 4924 waits for servicing at Wenatchee, WA as morning fog burns off the frosty nosed unit. In addition to loco mounted blue flags, the railroad has some permanent fold down ones attached to ti... (more)

BNSF 8860, an SD70MAC is surrounded by CP and BNSF GEs as it sits in the fog at Wenatchee. Used to flags displayed on many locos these days, a BNSF employee has taken that a step further by placin... (more)

BN 10352 which has been on display for a couple decades in Wenatchee recently had its exterior restored to BN colors. The caboose was a 1960 product of Burlington's Havlock Shops in Lincoln, NE, c... (more)

On February 20, 2017, a westbound BNSF stack train departs Wenatchee, Washington, passing the Cascadian Fruit Shippers Pear House building across from the downtown Amtrak station platforms.

During a midday snow squall, a group on BNSF employees and perhaps a contractor or two meet near the Amtrak station platform in Wenatchee, Washington, on February 20, 2017. A westbound stack train... (more)

Wenatchee has had a long winter this year with snow on the ground since December 5, 2016. Here on February 20 we woke up to heavy snowflakes, which made it fun to capture a bit of action near the ... (more)

During the summer of Heritage I, BNSF 1038 heads a perfect quartet of new GEs east out of Wenatchee, WA on a Q train. The location is on the main at the east end of Appleyard. A new crew climbed a... (more)

BN 6364 brings its eastbound train to a stop at Wenatchee as BN 8113 gets a westbound stack train underway in front of the Wenatchee landmark Cascadian Fruit Shippers cold storage warehouse. In th... (more)

BN 1796 still in Great Northern's simplified scheme is partnered with F9B 805 and BN 1790, a repainted former GN Geep, at Wenatchee, WA, June 8, 1974. This was my first visit to Wenatchee, done wh... (more)

BN 7162, a reasonably pristine BN SD40-2, heads up a somewhat rare all EMD consist on an eastbound stack train at Wenatchee, WA. The colorful consist includes a Soo Line SD40-2, as well as GATX an... (more)

A trio of fairly new BNSF Dash 9s in Heritage I paint idle on the sleeper track at Wenatchee, WA in early morning light. These units were quite prominent in the summer of 1997, contrasting nicely ... (more)

BNSF 1096 and 988 surround traditional BN green power during a crew change at Wenatchee on a westbound stack train led by 1096. 988 is idling between runs, and the BN Geeps are for local power in... (more)

Two new Heritage I Dash 9s take a seat while vintage BN EMDs handle the task at hand at Wenatchee, WA. Both major BN green schemes are shown with a little help from a high hood NS EMD. Business wa... (more)