At least the locomotives match. Well, sorta. The last locomotive, upon close inspection, is still in CB&Q chrome, but newly-labeled in the short-lived chrome BN scheme. Railroad: Burlington Northern RailroadLocomotive: EMD E8(A)Location: Fargo, North Dakota, USALocomotive #: BN 9970Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: April, 1971
Headed West, The Empire Builder, now a BN train, has stopped at the West Glacier Depot. SDP40 9856 is leading a mostly blue train--toward the rear are two California Zephyr cars.
Ready to leave Portland for Seattle, it is one of the daily trains run by the UP, SP&S, and NP in the last months before Amtrak fell upon us.
The Spokane to Seattle Cascadian sits on Track 4 at Tacoma Union Station.
This slide is almost 43 years old, I have no idea what train that was, I was 17 and on my first long trip alone. Note the old GM bus on the bridge and the raised NP on the B unit and the old RPO... (more)
A GN passenger train, probably the Red River is loaded for departure.
The afternoon International to Vancouver is ready to leave on the left, while the Empire Builder has started to load on the right.
