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  1. 9-10 All-Stars and 4449

    9-10 All-Stars and 4449

    The eastbound steam special to Wishram on BNSF passes a Little League practice in Washougal, Washington.
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    • 4449 bnsf sp&s
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    • Category: Human Interest Photos
  2. Morning At North Dalles

    Morning At North Dalles

    An Empty BNSF grain train heads east through North Dalles with Mount Hood in the Background.
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    • "mount "north "the bnsf c44-9w dalles" grain hood" oregon railroad railway sp&s train transportat washington
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Western United States
  3. SP&S Turntable, Portland OR

    SP&S Turntable, Portland OR

    BN GP9 1782 sits quietly on a track that once had been enclosed within the SP&S roundhouse in Portland Oregon. Date is circa 1986. Print scan
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    • bn-1782 sp&s turntable
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Yards
  4. SP&S #870

    SP&S #870

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    • #870 caboose sp&s
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    • Category: Caboose
  5. BNSF GE smokin' it up!!!!

    BNSF GE smokin' it up!!!!

    BNSF #4915 accelerates just west of Stevenson siding after meeting an eastbound.. This was a rare day that the sun was out and the trains were actually moving on the BNSF Fallbridge Subdivision.. To show on a nice spring day, snow is still in the hills in the background of the 4915 on the...
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    • bnsf columbia day ge gorge hills lumber mainline meet mill smokin' snow sp&s spring stevenson washington westbound
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    • Category: Western United States
  6. SP&S 71 at Eugene, Oregon

    SP&S 71 at Eugene, Oregon

    SP&S ALCO RS3 #71 rests at Eugene, Oregon on the Oregon Electric in July 1961.Photo by James Estes, Brian R. Sopke Collection.
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    • & alco electric eugene oregon portland rs3 seattle sp&s spokane
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    • Category: Vintage Freight Train Photos - Diesel Era
  7. SP&S 700 Santa Train

    SP&S 700 Santa Train

    The SP&S 700 (4-8-4) pulling up to the BNSF Christmas Party in Vancouver, WA today. Lots of happy children and families were present, as were a lot of happy (and very cold) railfans! I was so choked up by the 700's impressive approach (the crew really put on a GREAT show) that words...
    • Leia
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    • 4-8-4 700 santa sp&s train
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Tourist Railways - Steam Locomotives
  8. Old Warrior

    Old Warrior

    Alco C-636 Born as SP&S 330 in December 1967. It was renumbered in the BN merger as 4360. Purchased in the declining years of Alco production the 3600 HP unit was not a popular item with BN's mechanical department & was retired in Nov. 1980. Railfans loved them & it was a sad day...
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    • alco bn c636 sp&s
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Tourist Railways - Diesels
  9. SP&S 700 in Vancouver

    SP&S 700 in Vancouver

    Christmas Steam in Vancouver, edited in Photomatix/High Dynamic Range processing.
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    • 700 christmas sp&s steam
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    • Category: Railroad Art
  10. At Rest, Spokane, Portland and Seattle #700

    At Rest, Spokane, Portland and Seattle #700

    Back in 1982 in Oaks Park near Portland, OR, SP&S E1 #700 was about eight years away from a new life as an excursion locomotive. Its former stablemate, SP "Daylight" #4449, escaped the Park in 1974.
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    • #700 e1 sp&s
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Tourist Railways - Steam Locomotives
  11. SP&S #700

    SP&S #700

    Spokane Portland & Seattle #700 heading back to Brooklyn Yard from an afternoon at BNSF's Vancouver Yard delivering Santa Claus to the families from the Vancouver Terminal pool of employees. #700 is just south of the Vancouver Center crossovers and about to enter the BNSF Columbia...
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    • #700 amtrak bnsf brooklyn burlington depot engine fe northern oregon portland railroad santa seattle sp&s steam subdivis vancouver washington yard
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    • Category: Tourist Railways - Steam Locomotives
  12. Home at Cape Horn

    Home at Cape Horn

    Spokane, Portland & Seattle 4-8-4 No.700 is on home rails as it emerges from the Cape Horn Tunnel in the Columbia River Gorge on BNSF rails. SP 4-8-4 No.4449 is also on this train, run for the 2005 NRHS Convention.
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    • 4449 700 cape horn sp sp&s
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Tourist Railways - Steam Locomotives
  13. Daylight at St. Cloud

    Daylight at St. Cloud

    The Western Star makes the curve at St. Cloud just west of Skamania, WA.
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    • 4449 700 columbia daylight gorge nrhs river sp&s steam
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Mainline Excursions
  14. Doubleheader West

    Doubleheader West

    Daylight-painted 4449 leads the NRHS Western Star across the Drano Lake causeway, returning to Portland.
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    • 4449 700 columbia daylight gorge nrhs river sp&s steam
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Mainline Excursions
  15. Down and Out of Town

    Down and Out of Town

    SP&S 700 leads the NRHS Western Star out of Vancouver, about to pass under the I-205 Glenn Jackson Bridge.
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    • 700 sp&s special steam vancouver washington
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Mainline Excursions
  16. SP&S #700 Avery, WA

    SP&S #700 Avery, WA

    SP&S #700 and SP #4449 lead the NRHS "Western Star" excursion through Avery, WA enroute to Wishram.
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    • #700 sp&s
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Tourist Railways - Steam Locomotives
  17. A Lady in the Trees

    A Lady in the Trees

    Near Lake Oswego I was treated to a nice display of smoke from the 700.
    • ahockley
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    • 700 lake oswego sp&s steam
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Tourist Railways - Steam Locomotives
  18. Steam in the Valley

    Steam in the Valley

    SP&S 700 pulls her tender and caboose across an agricultural field south of Donald.
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    • 700 sp&s steam
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Tourist Railways - Steam Locomotives
  19. Steam Through Salem

    Steam Through Salem

    SP&S #700 chugs down Front Street in Salem.
    • ahockley
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    • 700 running salem sp&s steam street
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Tourist Railways - Steam Locomotives
  20. 700 in Roundhouse

    700 in Roundhouse

    SP&S 700 Parked in Portlands Brooklyn Roundhouse
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    • 700 brooklyn roundhouse sp&s
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Mainline Excursions



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