BN 808 leads an eastbound freight on the Coulee City Branch in October of 1980.
At this time this F-9 and several others had been recently bumped from Marias Pass helper service and were working out of Parkwater for a short time before being retired. Myself and a couple of others from the west side of the mountains made the early morning trek to the Eastern Washington branch to catch the action.
Starting near the west end of the line and working it's way back east, this crew and train spent the day picking up loaded 40 foot boxcars full of grain with the train growing in size as it went.
This one was good chase, as I recall.
I believe that we were just west of Davenport where the line closely parallels highway 2 when I grabbed this pacing short from Blair Kooistra's car.
This was originally a color slide, but the original has faded over time, so I've converted the image to B&W. I have included both for comparison. This is from old Non-Kodak slide film that is fading fast.
45 years - Man where does the time go?
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