Photo courtesy Tom Carver.
October 1980
Tom says:
"BN's CW (Central Washington) local, a.k.a. Coulee City turn, is heading west at Reardan with enough Fs and a Geep for the return trip with a heavy train of loads picked up at the grain elevators where these empties will be dropped off on the way west. A Geep was always included on the rear of the consist for switching elevator the Seattle Branch out of Davenport, the former Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern, which the NP purchased in 1890.
5 comments:
What a wonderful sound must have been in air that day!
It would have been great!
It would be interesting (to me, at least) to see how traffic, equipment, and power evolved from the late steam/early diesel era with grain box cars to 100 ton hoppers, multiple F's and so on. How long were the box car trains and what was the power during harvest time in the 50's, 60's, 70's and so on? On the CW, of course.
Good question. I know the unit grain car rate BN published changed things. Was it the initial change from NP days? I'm not sure.
Beautiful sight to behold, and them 567's growling and whining away, what a symphony!
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