Courtesy of Tom Carver.
October 1980
"BN's CW local, a.k.a. the Coulee City Turn, is westbound at Medical Lake, Wash., after diverging onto the branch at Cheney. BN's numbering scheme placed A units with even numbers and B units with odd, so the chances of lead F9A 818 being paired with trailing 817 were only fair at best. Covered hoppers were starting to take over by this time in October 1980, but there is still a good sized cut of 40-foot grain boxes entrained as well. It's harvest time, so the seven-unit mix of Fs and Geeps will be needed on the return trip the following day."
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