Heritage Rear
While this is a boring old roster shot on typical gray day in the emerald city the subject is just too cool not to share. I just stumbled across these while looking thru some old folders and figured I'd drop them in an album.
This is the engine pit tracks south of Spokane Street at the south end of Stacy Street Yard in South Seattle. There always seemed to be something interesting in this area along with the standard modern road power. BNSF 2819 is a GP39E rebuild that began life in Dec. 1965 as a Frisco GP35 originally numbered SLSF 729 and rebuilt by EMD in LaGrange around 1990. Still wearing BN white face dating from her rebuild she has since been repainted into the current BNSF H3 livery and I believe she is still on the roster.
Even cooler is what she is coupled to, a 'heritage' caboose numbered X234 and adorned with a large Great Northern logo. Repainted only a year or so prior this isn't an actual GN caboose (in fact the real X234 still survives as a private cabin in the woods near Flathead Lake in Montana) but was BN green when built as FWD 187 for then subsidiary Fort Worth and Denver. What else is cool is that she isn't far from the place of her birth having been constructed at the former Paccar (Pacific Car and Foundry) plant in nearby Renton in February 1980.
Seattle, Washington
Thursday May 23, 2013
Heritage Rear
While this is a boring old roster shot on typical gray day in the emerald city the subject is just too cool not to share. I just stumbled across these while looking thru some old folders and figured I'd drop them in an album.
This is the engine pit tracks south of Spokane Street at the south end of Stacy Street Yard in South Seattle. There always seemed to be something interesting in this area along with the standard modern road power. BNSF 2819 is a GP39E rebuild that began life in Dec. 1965 as a Frisco GP35 originally numbered SLSF 729 and rebuilt by EMD in LaGrange around 1990. Still wearing BN white face dating from her rebuild she has since been repainted into the current BNSF H3 livery and I believe she is still on the roster.
Even cooler is what she is coupled to, a 'heritage' caboose numbered X234 and adorned with a large Great Northern logo. Repainted only a year or so prior this isn't an actual GN caboose (in fact the real X234 still survives as a private cabin in the woods near Flathead Lake in Montana) but was BN green when built as FWD 187 for then subsidiary Fort Worth and Denver. What else is cool is that she isn't far from the place of her birth having been constructed at the former Paccar (Pacific Car and Foundry) plant in nearby Renton in February 1980.
Seattle, Washington
Thursday May 23, 2013