BN had quite a few roster oddities in to deal with in the first few years. Some of the rarest were a small group of Ex NP Baldwin road units that had been re-engined with EMD 567's fairly early in... (more)
A BN officer's special descends the West side of BN's Stevens Pass line through the Cascade Mountains on a typical Pacific Northwest April cloudy day. The weather would turn to rain before the spe... (more)
Washington's Stevens Pass, named for John F. Stevens (who explored this area with C.F.B Haskell in the late 1880s in order to plot this rail line), is where the Great Northern Railroad crossed the... (more)