Train Watching in the Age of Kodachrome
Railfanning the Pacific Northwest May 1990 British Columbia, CANADA. Carl visits and gets the grand tour. Many of the locomotives we ll see in this section were built by General Motors Diesel or GMD. Our first stop after crossing the border at White Rock, BC, was the Roberts Bank Superport (coal baby, coal). Canadian Pacific [ ]
Railfanning the Pacific Northwest May 1990 Columbia River Gorge to… Centralia? Carl visits and gets the grand tour. Part 3. From Yakima the next morning, we punched down US 97 to railfan the Columbia River Gorge. Burlington Northern on the north bank, Union Pacific on the south bank. At railroad MP 83, we came [ ]
Railfanning the Pacific Northwest May 1990 Spirit of Washington Dinner Train. Carl visits and gets the grand tour. Part 2. We awoke to sunshine and blue skies in Yakima. Today, the big event was a ride on the WCRC dinner train from Yakima to Ellensburg and back. But first, a visit to the Yakima [ ]
Railfanning the Pacific Northwest May 1990 Stevens Pass. Carl visits and gets the grand tour. Seven years had passed since I first met my buddy Carl in Nebraska. Two years ago, I visited Mr. Swanson on his turf, and we did the entire state on a kick railfan safari. Now it was my turn [ ]
Railfanning the Pacific Northwest April 1990 Visiting the Izaak Walton Inn by train. Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow! My last day at the Izaak Walton Inn dawned cold, windy and snowy. The first train of the day was a 2 unit manifest (Burlington Northern EMD SD40-2s 8010 and 6902) crossing [ ]
Railfanning the Pacific Northwest April 1990 Visiting the Izaak Walton Inn by train. What are those funny little signs? At Bison, Montana, a westbound grain train takes the main as it curves beneath my vantage point. An otherwise common collection of Burlington Northern EMD SD40-2s, is broken up by a cabless GE B30-7A. Passing [ ]
Railfanning the Pacific Northwest April 1990 Visiting the Izaak Walton Inn by train. Business Cars Today s mission was to follow the Empire Builder from the Coram, MT bridge as far east as East Glacier, MT. According to my notes, Amtrak Train #8 was running two hours late and was deadheading four executive cars back [ ]
Railfanning the Pacific Northwest April 1990 Visiting the Izaak Walton Inn by train. Aww, I like it better in Winter, cause all this opens up. Essex, Montana. Home of the fabled Izaak Walton Inn at the foot of Marias Pass. Once a Great Northern Railway hostel and eatery for crews, it evolved into a [ ]
Railfanning the Pacific Northwest November 1989 Celebrating Washington s Centennial with Steam. Great Western Railroad #51, a 2-8-0 Baldwin (class of 1906), was the second steam locomotive to visit the Yakima Centennial Railfest. It didn t have to travel far, because at the time, it was in operation at the Yakima Valley Rail Steam Museum, [ ]
Railfanning the Pacific Northwest November 1989 Celebrating Washington s Centennial with Steam. May 1989 was the official start of the Spirit of Washington dinner train operations. It wasn t until the Yakima Centennial Railfest in November 1989 that I first saw the equipment in person. TWO Steam locomotives arrived to help celebrate: The famous 4449 Daylight [ ]