Railfanning in Summer 1997

I took these pictures in the summer of 1998, in either late July, or, more likely, August.

First, arriving in Vancouver, Washington, with a southbound passenger train, is Amtrak #340, a 3,000-horsepower F40PH that was built by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors in 1980.

Behind Amtrak #340 is the Talgo Pendular 200 Demonstrator trainset operating as Amtrak's Train #753, the Mount Adams.

Parked in Vancouver is Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe GP35u #2916. It was originally built by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors in August 1965 as Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe GP35 #1416, and was renumbered in 1970 to #3416. In September 1983 it was rebuilt as GP35u #2916. Through it all it retained its 2,500-horsepower rating. Even though it had been almost two years since the Burlington Northern Santa Fe merger, blue and yellow Santa Fe locomotives were still rare in the Pacific Northwest.

A northbound Union Pacific freight train passed through Vancouver, led by Southern Pacific #9800, a 4,000-horsepower SD70M that was built by the General Motors Locomotive Group in London, Ontario, in June 1994.

At Union Pacific's Albina Yard in Portland, Oregon, I found Union Pacific #B4275, a 3,000-horsepower SD40-2 that was built by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors in May 1979 as Missouri Pacific #3275. After the Missouri Pacific was merged into the Union Pacific in 1982, the locomotive became Union Pacific #4275 on October 10, 1986. On November 7, 1992, it was changed to trailing-unit-only service with the removal of cab signals, refrigerators, toilets, and cab seats, and was renumbered with the "B" prefix.

There were other locomotives at Albina as well, but I didn't get good pictures of them.