A Late Afternoon at Eavan - Summer 2006

Vancouver-Pasco train at East Vancouver, Washington - 2006

BN Chip Gon

NP Chip Gon, loaded with either bark or cedar.

Clutter, it's what you make of it.

BNFE Mechanical Reefer

Missing Link with skullies.

Creeping socialism.

Clark Public Utilities Substation

WB Grainer at the brand new Eavan X-Over Signals

The near vertical North Slope of Mount Hood

Eight Street, Vancouver

The hot corner of Vancouver, Washington. Yes, a baseball analogy, and I know that baseball field wise, the Fallbridge Sub would actually more resemble the first baseline. But no analogy is perfect, if it were, it would be an equivalence and not an analogy. Okay, so how about a theatrical analogy; backstage, and the footlights are located inside the wye at Vancouver Center.  Anyway, its rare to drive out Hwy 14 and not see a train somewhere on the long fill that keeps the railroad above the floodplain of the Columbia, and past the site of Ft. Vancouver. The crossovers at Eavan get a real workout as trains are shuffled to facilitate trains either crossing the river, or heading up the old NP.

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And She's Buying a Stairway.........to Eighth Street

BNSF 1037 W. Eighth St. Vancouver, WA

It don't look like this anymore. This is the Chicago-Portland swinging off the Fallbridge for Lake Yard.

Why Leave Home Department - "Furrin" Power in Vancouver

B-Unit "Do Not Occupy"
Ex  Southern High Hood SD40-2s 3249 and 3251 in leaser service on the BNSF
Vancouver, Washington - 2006

NREX leasers on the BNSF - Vancouver, Washington - 2006
Former Conrail and QNS&L units.

Power from the rumored merger partner of the BNSF. When will the railroad merger shoe drop again? Note the two styles of the NS logo. At least the NS doesn't feel the need to change its paint scheme every couple of years like the CSX.

Roster information on the CP Rail/Southern high hoods is from this very cool CP Rail roster site.

Why Leave Home - Part 2

A big CSX A/C on the point of a Pasco/Longview train at 8th. St. Vancouver, Washington 

CSX does haul woodchips from Appalachian sawmills, but they do so in hoppers and not chip gons.

Santa Fe Snoot at the Viaduct - 8th Street Vancouver, Wa.

Former ATSF SD40-2  BNSF 6864

While I'm working on part 3 of the Santa Fe Tehachapi feature, here is a photo from another time and place. The row of pines along the viaduct is now gone.  Many in Vancouver condsider this concrete structure to be an eyesore. Go figure.

Three Digits and the BN Redux

It is September 4, 1970 in Vancouver, Washington. The merger is 6 moths old. This is the only color slide I have of un-renumbered BN power. Burlington Northern was very quick with its renumbering and the removal of heralds, but these these three GPs were so far unscathed.