Classmates
Built in March 1940 as Milwaukee Road 1619, Ballard Terminal SW1 number 98 slumbers in the drizzle in its pen at Ballard, Seattle. Parked in front of it is a car that must be almost as old as the vintage EMD. I'm ignorant of its provenance, anyone know?
This scene is on Ballard Terminal's original operation, a 3-mile, former BN / GN, partly street-running spur through the eponymous neighborhood that serves just a few customers. They deliver cars to BNSF at Shilshole on the Scenic Sub along Puget Sound.
Ballard Terminal also operates two other shortlines in the area; the Eastside Freight Railroad from Woodinville to Snohomish (what's left of BNSF's ex-NP Woodinville Sub) and the Meeker Southern, running from Puyallup to McMillin. The latter is a remnant of what was an extensive network of Northern Pacific coal and lumber branch lines in the Cascade foothills, running to such colorful places as Lake Kapowsin, Fairfax, Carbonado, Enumclaw and Kanaskat.
Classmates
Built in March 1940 as Milwaukee Road 1619, Ballard Terminal SW1 number 98 slumbers in the drizzle in its pen at Ballard, Seattle. Parked in front of it is a car that must be almost as old as the vintage EMD. I'm ignorant of its provenance, anyone know?
This scene is on Ballard Terminal's original operation, a 3-mile, former BN / GN, partly street-running spur through the eponymous neighborhood that serves just a few customers. They deliver cars to BNSF at Shilshole on the Scenic Sub along Puget Sound.
Ballard Terminal also operates two other shortlines in the area; the Eastside Freight Railroad from Woodinville to Snohomish (what's left of BNSF's ex-NP Woodinville Sub) and the Meeker Southern, running from Puyallup to McMillin. The latter is a remnant of what was an extensive network of Northern Pacific coal and lumber branch lines in the Cascade foothills, running to such colorful places as Lake Kapowsin, Fairfax, Carbonado, Enumclaw and Kanaskat.