Here’s a collection of trains I captured over three days in Seattle.
Day 1 we find UP 1076 working the Harbor Island local, where it switches the industry of the Alaska Railroad dock, where you see workers latching the rolling stock onto the ship, where it will eventually find its way into Alaska to interchange with the ARR. It was just the right time and place for me to find this ex Cotton Belt GP60 doing the hard work, as it would over 30 years ago when it would pull heavy Southern Pacific trains across the west. The unit left the next day on M-SEPD after 1 day on the local.
Cut to day 2 at Interbay (Balmer Yard) Amtrak 8 departs Seattle with AMTK 160 in the lead with its retro 1990's 'Pepsi Can" heritage unit scheme. We also see switching in the yard, including undelivered/uncompleted 737 MAX fuselages, and my personal favorite catch of the day, BN 'Cascade Green' 2096, covered in my previous upload.
Day 3 we see the BNSF U-CNFTAO with a solid set of CN units, as well as Amtrak 7 heading back into the coach yard after wying its set, as it meets the R-NWE737.
0:01 Harbor Island Local
6:35 Amtrak 8
6:58 Y-INB 2191
8:10 BNSF 2096
8:38 U-CNFTAO
10:34 Amtrak 7 & R-NWE737
11:33 Amtrak 517
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