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Kurt Moose
April 6th, 2006, 10:33 PM
Does anyone have pic's or know where I can find some of GN's "Cascadian" about the mid-fifties? graemlins/headscratch.gif
HemiAdda2d
April 7th, 2006, 01:09 AM
http://photoswest.org/photos/00011876/00011994.jpg

The pic was taken by Otto Perry in 1939....
HemiAdda2d
April 7th, 2006, 01:12 AM
A google for Cascadian showed this:
http://www.gntavern.com/beer_dtc.html

Interesting...
BoxcabE50
April 8th, 2006, 09:56 PM
Originally posted by Kurt Moose:
Does anyone have pic's or know where I can find some of GN's "Cascadian" about the mid-fifties? graemlins/headscratch.gif Would that have been GP units for power by then?

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BoxcabE50
April 8th, 2006, 09:57 PM
Originally posted by HemiAdda2d:
The pic was taken by Otto Perry in 1939.... Any more info in the caption?

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Kurt Moose
April 8th, 2006, 10:01 PM
In the GN books I have and post cards I've collected, you never knew what was going to be on the headend! Mostly F's, but I saw one pic of the last run with a geep w/silver trucks, like the F-units on the builder! Oh, and thanks Hemiadda2d for the pic, but a little before my time period.
Kurt Moose
April 8th, 2006, 10:05 PM
Originally posted by BoxcabE50:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by HemiAdda2d:
The pic was taken by Otto Perry in 1939.... Any more info in the caption?

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Boxcab E50 </font>[/QUOTE]That pic was taken on the Seattle waterfront just north of downtown. There is a huge grain elevator there now along with 8-9 tracks and the water on the left has been pushed out about 50-75 yards with fill and there is the waterfront park here now. graemlins/wink.gif
BoxcabE50
April 8th, 2006, 11:09 PM
That's where I thought it was taken. Looked like Magnolia in the background. Thus is just about where Myrtle Edwards Park is now.

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HemiAdda2d
April 10th, 2006, 03:33 AM
I kinda spaced out, and forgot the topic!
Sorry, lemme dig up the caption... redface.gif
HemiAdda2d
April 10th, 2006, 03:34 AM
"GN train, engine number 1457, engine type 4-6-2. Train #5, Cascadian; beside Puget Sound, 4 cars, 35 MPH. Photographed: Seattle, Wash., July 23, 1939."
Kurt Moose
April 10th, 2006, 09:50 PM
Hey, thank's! :D
HemiAdda2d
April 10th, 2006, 10:32 PM
Anyone own the GN Pictorial series? Surely, one must have some pics or data on the #5...
BN9900
April 25th, 2006, 05:10 PM
I have that series, The Cascadians were the day locals between Seattle and Spokane. They handled all the little towns that the Builder ands Western Star Skipped.
GNFA310
April 25th, 2006, 05:25 PM
Anyone own the GN Pictorial series? Surely, one must have some pics or data on the #5...

I have all seven volumes ... what am I looking for again?:confused:
Kurt Moose
April 28th, 2006, 08:42 AM
I have all seven volumes ... what am I looking for again?:confused:
I have 'em all except #5. I was bidding on one on E-pay, until it hit over $100.00 dollars!!!!
GNFA310
May 2nd, 2006, 12:17 AM
Well I searched all seven Great Northern Pictorial volumes and only Volume 4 has pictures of the Cascadian .. both eras (heavyweight and smoothside)... and very few at that.

Thanks Kurt ... But I Wonder?!? .. How much all seven volumes as a single collection would be worth? :omg:
No matter .. I'm not selling in any case. :teeth: