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  1. BNSF Bridge # 37

    BNSF Bridge # 37

    Swing bridge # 37 spans the Snohomish River in Everett Wa. just north of Delta Jct.. This is BNSFs main line north to Canada, at Delta Jct.the tracks wye west to Bayside yard and east to Delta yard.After getting the OK from the Bridge Tender to use the bridge he hoops there orders and BN#2269...
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    • Category: Bridges and Trestles
  2. Amtrak # 156 returns

    Amtrak # 156 returns

    On a Rainy haze day Amtrak # 156 (Anniversary Heritage Phase # 1 paint scheme) was on the afternoon # 8 Amtrak Empire Builder Seattle to Chicago, pulling out of Edmonds Wa. station stop.
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    • Category: Amtrak Roster Photos
  3. Last survivor

    Last survivor

    Minneapolis Northfield & Southern # 21 built 1948 by Baldwin Locomotive Works Model DT6-6-2000 center-cab with two 606SC eng. is in operational order and last of its kind at IRM in Union Ill.
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    • Category: Tourist Railways - Diesels
  4. Milw. F/M#760

    Milw. F/M#760

    Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul & Pacific # 760 Fairbanks Morse H10-44 frist locomotive built by them in 1944 ,two stroke opposed diesel engine.This is preserved in operating condition at IRM in Union Ill. not far from where it was built just over the border in Beloit Wis.
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    • Category: Tourist Railways - Diesels
  5. Tunnel # 16

    Tunnel # 16

    The rear dome car California Zephyr (Silver Solarium)on the snowtrain to Leavenworth Wa.for the tree lighting enters the tunnel under Everett Wa. next station stop before heading up the hill.
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    • Category: Holidays - Seasonal
  6. triple 7s

    triple 7s

    A ex Santa Fe # 777 dash-9 leads two more dash-9s elephant style southbound with a manifest thru M.P.-18 Edmonds Wa.with Mt. Baker in the background.
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    • Category: Western United States
  7. Cat Power

    Cat Power

    Pacific Harbor Line # 20 ex Harbor Belt Line out on a side track across from Progress Rail for a horn test thats what the paperwork in the window said.A rebuild unit one of sixteen that are being updated from tier 2 to tier 3 low emission (DPFs)with a Cat 3512C HD diesel engines.
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    • Category: Regionals and Shortlines
  8. MoPac # 13926

    MoPac # 13926

    A short bay MoPac caboose on the rear protecting a manifests train backing into the Fife Wa. U.P. yard.
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    • Category: Caboose
  9. Waiten on Snow

    Waiten on Snow

    A snowplow on the wye track at Skykomish Wa. BNSF 7/23/2011 BN # 972514
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    • Category: Maintenance of Way and Non-Revenue Cars
  10. Santa Fe # 930

    Santa Fe # 930

    A old peeling fading unpatched Santa Fe warbonnet single engine unit J-train in the hole tied down at the grade crossing at Scenic Wa. waiting for a westbound hot Z-train to come up the hill on the east side and go thru the Cascade tunnel frist this ended up being a two hour wait.
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    • Category: Burlington Northern Santa Fe
  11. Amtrak # 156

    Amtrak # 156

    Amtrak #156 40 th annv. phase #1 bloody nose paint scheme ,10 hours late Empire Builder # 7 thru Edmonds Wa.
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    • Category: Amtrak and other US Passenger Trains
  12. BN Operation Live Saver

    BN Operation Live Saver

    BN # 1521 Operation Life Saver GP-28M
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    • Category: Night Photos
  13. BNSF #1573 SD-40-2R

    BNSF #1573 SD-40-2R

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    • Category: Burlington Northern Santa Fe
  14. evening Sounder

    evening Sounder

    Northbound Sounder thru Edmonds Wa.
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    • Category: Transit, Light Rail and Commuter
  15. Amtrak # 7

    Amtrak # 7

    Amtrak # 7 westbound Empire Builder 5 1/2 hours late going through Edmonds Wa.,with its lead Genesis unit out of service somewhere along the way and being haul with a DASH-9.Also MoW signal gang working on the eastbound signals.
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    • Category: Amtrak and other US Passenger Trains
  16. Rarus Railroad # 103

    Rarus Railroad # 103

    RARW #103 EMD GP-7 Built in 1952 for the Butte Anaconda & Pacific now own and working a Co-Op grain elevator in Harlem Montana.
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  17. MNNR nite move

    MNNR nite move

    Minnesota Commercial Railroad /MNNR # 54 a B-30-7 waits two pull off the last two cars on the Amtrak # 7/27 westbound for Seattle at St.Paul Minnesota ,the two private cars the dome car Puget Sound and parlor car Serria Hotel that left with The Empire Builder # 7/27 from Chicago.
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  18. DOTX # 220 FRA

    DOTX # 220 FRA

    The Empire Builder # 7 with a FRA DOTX # 220 inpection car/DOTX #221 coach car Office of Safety/and BNSF # 7 Sante Fe coach platform car.Stopped at Edmonds Wa. Amtrak station S/B for Seattle Wa.
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    • Category: Special Trains, Charters and PV's
  19. Soo #6054

    Soo #6054

    a visitor from the mid-west at Delta yard Everett Wa.
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    • Category: Canadian Pacific
  20. CN # 5555 SD-60-F

    CN # 5555 SD-60-F

    Got to love all those 5s /CN # 5555 GMD SD60-F along the fuel track with a Geep-30 at Delta yard Everett Wa.
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    • Category: Canadian National




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