Awaiting orders

BN 610 was built as the Great Northern 274B in October 1950. 274B was built as part of a 2 unit F7A set numbered 274A and B as protection passenger train power. The 274A had a steam boiler while the 274B had extra boiler tanks for holding additional water. Unlike other passenger train power these A-units did not have oscillating headlights. They were delivered in the Classic Empire Builder scheme and later painted into the simplified orange and green. Neither were painted into Big Sky Blue.


BN retired the 610 a year later in December of 1980 and it was sold to J. Simon and Sons, a scrapper, but the F7A found new life when it was then leased to the Seattle & North Coast in December of 1980, along with sister ex-GN F7A's 684 and 704. Given new paint it was renumbered S&NC 101 and used on the line between Port Angeles and Port Townsend, WA. Hard times fell on the S&NC and the line shut down early in 1985 and assets liquidated.

As OCSR 274

As DLMX 274