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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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.