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| Photo by Cliff West |
These pictures were taken by my dad, Cliff West, in early 1999. They show two new Amtrak Cascades trains making station stops at the depot in Vancouver, Washington. This equipment had only entered service in January 1999. I am not sure of the exact date of these pictures, but they are no later than April of 1999.
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| Photo by Cliff West |
I think this northbound is Train #750. At the head of the train is Amtrak #470, a 3,200-horsepower F59PHI that was built in 1998 by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors with final assembly by Super Steel Schenectady, Inc., of Schenectady, Pennsylvania. Visible at the rear end of the train is a Non-Powered Control Unit converted from an F40PH locomotive.
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| Photo by Cliff West |
This is another Cascades train, a southbound that I believe is Train #751. Bringing up the rear of the train is Amtrak #466, another 3,200-horsepower F59PHI.
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| Photo by Cliff West |
At the head end of the train was Amtrak #467, another F59PHI. For the first few months, the Amtrak Cascades trains sometimes ran with a locomotive on each end until enough Non-Powered Control Units were available.
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