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  1. BNSFEng

    Woodinville, WA Sub being removed.

    I saw last week watching loaders, bulldozers and cranes removing rail and ties in the Woodinville, WA area. I've seen trains on that line since 1961 when I was 5 years old! I would had pictures but I was crying so much my camera was so wetted I couldn't take any. Whew! I don't know if someone...
  2. BNSFEng

    Hook from Interbay fell over in a period from 1978-1983. Trying to remember when I took the pictures

    I had been at the BN/BNSF convention in Vancouver, WA this year. Our president wants us to show some pictures for our magazine. I got a bunch but need to get the date of these six pictures. Now I live where that accident happened in Sultan, WA. The City Hall people are too young. The Information...
  3. BNSFEng

    SD75I-3? at Interbay. BNSF 283 is at the service track at Interbay Roundhouse 8/28

    I saw the repainted and overhauled BNSF 283, SD75I this evening, Monday August 28, 2017, at the Interbay Roundhouse service tracks. From other peoples pictures, I couldn't tell if -3 is added to the engine name on the side of the frame near the nose like the GP60M-3's are now identified. The...
  4. BNSFEng

    Rare GP 60M @ Interbay, WA and in new paint BNSF paint scheme.

    When I went by Interbay with my commuter train, this evening, I saw the first GP60M in Seattle in many years plus the very first one in the BNSF orange and green scheme that I've seen. Engine was BNSF 104. Don't know if it's just visiting or is joining the 4 GP60 B units in the area for local...
  5. BNSFEng

    The first new SOUNDER cab car, one of nine to be delivered arrived 7/24/2017

    The first of nine new SOUNDER Commuter train cab cars has arrived from Thunder Bay, Ontario and is at the Amtrak Yard in Seattle, WA. Here, they will receive final assembly of electronics and extensive testing leading to certification for SOUNDER Commuter service. Notable changes over previous...
  6. BNSFEng

    All 8 of the new SC-44s for Amtrak Cascades are on the property.

    Sorry no pictures but all 8 of the new SC-44 Chargers are on track 406 at Amtrak's Holgate Yard. You can see them easily from public property on Holgate Street.
  7. BNSFEng

    Siiemens SC-44 engine 4611 on the move soon.

    Last night they were testing the new Siemens SC-44 Charger engine #4611 in the Amtrak yard at Holgate Street in Seattle, WA and taking it to the Coach Y for clearance testing. It will be going to Vancouver, BC and Portland, OR over the next couple of days so be on the look out for it. This is...
  8. BNSFEng

    First SP&S engine

    This was taken along the waterfront of Seattle in Spring 1973. There was two geeps towing this dead SP&S C636 engine and train to Stacy yard. I had never seen an SP&S engine ever before and luckily I had my camera with color slide film. I had just got my drivers license a few days before at 16...
  9. BNSFEng

    Burlington to Anacortes access /Mount Vernon, WA Siding Improvement Work

    Here are some shots from my trip to Mount Vernon and Burlington, WA on Saturday March 7th. I know some work had gone on up there but I had not been to the area for over a year. 1. Here is a Loaded Oil train headed to Fildago on the Anacortes Branch. This is at West Stackpole Rd. which will...


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