Mid-1992 Train Pictures

Photo by Cliff West

Here are some more of my dad's train pictures. He usually got his train pictures developed as slides, but he got prints of these as well. These were taken in mid-1992.

Photo by Cliff West

Union Pacific #9366 is a General Electric Dash 8-40CW, or C40-8W, that was built in January 1990.

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Pictured at Union Pacific's Albina Yard in Portland, Oregon, UP #9366 still looks very new despite being more than two years old.

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Burlington Northern #3100 is a GP50 built by the Electro-Motive of General Motors in December 1980. It is pictured at BN's Hoyt Street Yard in Portland, Oregon. This was BN's first GP50. It was the first of a group of ten originally ordered by the St. Louis-San Francisco, or Frisco. It was originally intended to be SLSF #791. The Frisco was merged into the Burlington Northern before these locomotives were completed, and they were delivered as Burlington Northern #3100-3109. They were the only GP50s to receive BN's standard paint scheme. BN would order more GP50s, but they would be painted with orange and black nose stripes and a different lettering arrangement.

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Burlington Northern #1800 is a GP9 originally built by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors in March 1958 as Great Northern #727. Like all Great Northern GP9s, it was built with the long hood designated as the front, and even after Great Northern was merged into Burlington Northern in 1970, it retained this configuration, and received its white diagonal stripes on the long-hood.

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This northbound Burlington Northern freight train was photographed across the Cowlitz River from the boat launch at Gerhart Gardens Park in Longview, Washington. All four of these Burlington Northern locomotives were built by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors. Burlington Northern #7865 is an SD40-2 that was built in October 1978. Burlington Northern #7300 is an SD40G that was originally built in March 1971 as Missouri Pacific SD40 #770. It was renumbered to #3070 in May 1978. After Missouri Pacific was merged into Union Pacific, it was assigned UP #4070, but was not renumbered before its original 15-year expired, and Union Pacific retired it on June 1, 1986. It was used in short-term lease service as HLCX 5070 and then GATX 5070 before being rebuilt in April 1989 and leased to Burlington Northern as one of a group of ten. Burlington Northern #8058 is an SD40-2 built by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors in November 1979, and Burlington Northern #8019 is an SD40-2 built by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors in March 1978.

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This is Cowlitz, Chehalis & Cascade #15 pulling a Chehalis-Centralia Railroad Association excursion train in Chehalis, Washington. This steam locomotive is a 2-8-2 and was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in September, 1916. The locomotive was originally built for the Clear Lake Lumber Company, based in Clear Lake, Skagit County, Washington. The locomotive was lettered for the Puget Sound & Cascade Railway Company (presumably a wholly owned subsidiary of the Clear Lake Lumber Company) as their #200. It was later repossessed by Baldwin in 1926 as Clear Lake Lumber and the Puget Sound & Cascade had gone into bankruptcy. It was resold to the Cowlitz, Chehalis & Cascade, and became their #15.

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After many years of service on the Cowlitz, Chehalis & Cascade, the locomotive was donated to the city of Chehalis in 1955 and placed on display in a park. In 1986, the Chehalis-Centralia Railroad Association was formed to restore #15. Beginning in 1987, it was restored to operating condition at the shops of the Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad, and scheduled excursions began in the summer of 1989.