Amtrak 334 (F40PH) at Seattle, WA
EMD F40PH AMTK 334 takes a smoke break at Amtrak’s Seattle facility.
Photo by David Cooley
BN 150 (SW 9) at Balmer Yard (Seattle)
BN 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
Amtrak 219 (F40PH) at Interbay, Seattle
EMD F40PH AMTK 219 was at BN’s engine facility at Interbay (Seattle), WA, in August of 1983. Amtrak uses this former Great Northern facility for locomotive servicing for trains terminating at Seattle’s King Street station.
Photos by David Cooley
BN 3160 at Stacey Street (Seattle)
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.