Stampede Sub Willapa ViewsBN 150 (SW9)is at Balmer Yard in Seattle, Washington, in August 0f 1983. This locomotive was the former Great Northern #18 and was built by EMD in May 1951 as SN 13298. It was retired by the Burlington Northern in October 1985 after 37 years of service.
Data: Trainpix BN Photo Archives
Photo by David Cooley
BN 3160 and its consist wait at Stacey Street yard in Seattle, Washington for its trainload of containers headed east in March of 1986. This lashup was common and consisted of GP 50′s on either side of a Fuel Tender, which was a specially-equipped tank car to supply fuel to the locomotives en route and avoid high cost fuel in out of the way places.
BN 3160 is an EMD GP50 (#847073-3) built in November 1985 and sports a special enlarged “crew cab”. The GP 50′s introduced an era of modified paint schemes on the Burlington Northern, which really didn’t end until after the BNSF merger. These had orange and black stripes on the nose, a large BN herald and name on the sides, and the road number was moved to under the cab window.
Locomotive data: BNSF 1998-1999 Motive Power Review, by Robert C. Del Grosso, Great Northern Pacific Publications.
BN 4058 is in line for servicing at the Interbay engine facility in Seattle, Washington in January of 1985. These cabless locomotives were a common sight on long distance trains heading east over Stevens Pass.
BN 4058 is a GE B30-7AB. These were all off the roster before BNSF.
Burlington Northern D200 is ready for any contingency at the Interbay (Seattle, Washington) yard in August of 1983.
Photo by David Cooley.