BN F Units Near Davenport

Photo courtesy of Blair Kooistra.

August 14, 1981

Blair says: "The retired concrete slabs of old US 2 ka-thump-ka-thump-ka-thump under the tires as we pace the westbound CW Local between Reardan and Davenport, Washington, late on a summer afternoon in 1981. It won't be long until the F9s still found on this assignment out of Parkwater roundhouse will be retired, but it's sure grand to exult in the sound of 567C power plants!"

BN F Units Near Creston

Photo courtesy of Blair Kooistra.

October 11, 1980

Blair says: "Exhaust and kicked-up volcanic ash billows skyward as the eastbound CW Local enters Creston, Washington, on its return to Spokane from Coulee City in the fall of 1980. Residents of eastern Washington are still dealing with the blanket of fallout from May's Mount Saint Helens eruption. Five F-units and a pair of GP's have a train of mostly 40-foot boxcars loaded with wheat in tow."

BN F Units At Almira

Photo courtesy of Blair Kooistra.

Blair says: "Hot August night, 1981, in Almira, Washington. Coulee City local is tied up in town, crew resting out at the motel in Coulee City. They'll be on the move by 7am, for another hot day moving grain cars back to Cheney".

BN F Units At Coulee City

Photo courtesy of Blair Kooistra.

Blair says: "Seven EMD prime movers have been idling all night in Coulee City, anxiously awaiting dawn and arrival of a rested crew to take the Coulee City Local back to Spokane with a trainload of wheat from local elevators. Now the outbound crew is just minutes away, and shortly after sunrise ex-SP&S F3A 712, an F9B and a mix of GP7s and 9's will be ready to depart with a half-dozen cars, adding at elevators on the way back to build a big train of wheat for export facilities in Kalama."

1966 Moses Lake Depot Area Views

BN F Units At Coulee City

Photographer unknown, but I sure would like to know!

No date, but I'm sure no later than 1980.

1901 Washington State Report On Douglas County

BN F Units At Reardan

Upper two photos courtesy of Mike Sawyer.

Lower two photos courtesy of Blair Kooistra.

September 27, 1981

BN F Units At Wilbur

Photo courtesy Mike Sawyer.

September 27, 1980