Stampede Sub Willapa ViewsBNSF 788 (C44-9W) wears the Santa Fe-inspired warbonnet, although it was built after the merger for BNSF in September of 1997 by GE. Builder’s number is 50071.
Oct. 30, 2005 Auburn, WA
Data: BNSF Railway Company 2006 Locomotive Review and Locomotive Diagrams, Robert C. Del Grosso, Great Northern Pacific Publications.
Photo by David Cooley.
Oakway 9004 heads up a southbound BN freight at Auburn, Washington, in June 1990.
Oakway 9004 is an EMD SD60 (#867150-5) leased to BN and was built in Oct. 1986.
Photo by David J. Cooley
Data: BNSF 1998-1999 Motive Power Review, by Robert C. Del Grosso, Great Northern Pacific Publications.
BNSF 1028 leads a westbound off the Stampede Sub through the north leg of the wye at Auburn, Washington, in January 1998. This location is now called “Rainier” and is just south of the Sounder station.
BNSF 1028 is a GE C44-9W (DASH9-44CW) painted in the original “Heritage” scheme, better known as the “Pumpkin.” It was built in October 1996 (#49418).
Locomotive data: BNSF 2006 Locomotive Review and Diagrams, by Robert Del Grosso, Great Northern Pacific Publications.
BNSF’s Stampede Pass line was out of service for a couple of months after a storm in January washed out tracks near Lester and at the summit tunnel. The line was reopened about a month ago and has seen a small amount of traffic in that time.
Today. an inspection train came off the line at Auburn about 5 PM. It probably had spent the day checking the new work done on the line. At any rate, anything resembling passenger equipment on the Stampede Line always gets the heart pumping and I ran out with camera in hand to find it sitting on the north leg of the wye waiting to head towards Seattle when the Sounders gave them an opportunity.
Consist was BNSF 4770, BNSF 88 Atchison, and BNSF 87 Skagit River with the large rearward viewing window on the back end.
(Reposted from original blog)