Courtesy of Tom Carver.
August 16, 1981
"The first time I encountered the Central Washington local was this same eastward train about 10 miles west of here, while driving the return leg of my delivery route out of Seattle. Every second day out I would return from either Coeur d'Alene or Spokane via U.S. Route 2, which followed the tracks, to my last delivery in Wenatchee. This was the first train I saw on the line and I was surprised that they were using F-Units. It was four-axle-only territory, which made sense, and the F's were out of the Parkwater (Spokane) based motive power pool, which also supplied these same units for the Marias Pass helpers. I turned around and followed it back here to Davenport, where he switched. Amazing how much infrastructure and equipment still remained in the 1980's."
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