Although BN emphasized its Inside Gateway between Seattle and California, they also operated a Seattle based runthrough train to Southern Pacific's Brooklyn Yard in Portland and on to Eugene & Ca... (more)
After arriving at UP's Argo Yard, Seattle, the quartet of E units that will head the Old Timers' Special east, have cut off their train and are being positioned at the diesel facility for their ov... (more)
UP GP30 842 along with a GP30B & SD24B hold at Black River Jct., Seattle, WA, while a UP deadhead move rolls by with UP E9A 951, The Preamble Express, trailing. The deadhead move will leave the fo... (more)
Fred Tolan and his Washington-Oregon Shippers Assn. were very influential in the Pacific Northwest in controlling which railroad got traffic. One movement they controlled was inbound shipments of ... (more)
No other railroad in North America other than UP could put this combo together. UP GP30B is mated up with an Omaha built GP20B and an SDP35, parked at Argo Yard, Seattle, waiting to be attached to... (more)