A nice blast from the past. I have some post BN era photos of BN units, but that's as good as it gets from me.
This thread is going to make me get out some of my old photos. I have some sad ones too of some early Fs Geeps and Alcos meeting their dimise in Tacoma @ General Metals. Somewhere I even have a couple builders plates off some of these locos.
I hope someone has pictures of BN 2211. I have been wanting to build this one for a while now. This is a GP 30 that was in a wreck and rebuilt with a standard geep cab. It is a unique unit.
Dad used to take me down there to check out the "scraps". I got some photo's somewhere of a whole bunch of U25B's I think, from UP. Some BN geeps, too. gotta' find 'em. Here's some more of my old beaters.
and yet some more...... and I must apologize for the composure of my pic's. I rolled back in the day with just a Kodak "Instamatic" 35mm-not exactly state of the art......
Excellent, Kurt, gladdens my heart to see these. I note there's a GP10 (GP7u) amongst the first shots you posted.
Maybe not state of the art, but precious photos anyhow. You can't catch these any more.... It was an interesting time, back in the 1970's.... Boxcab E50
Kurt, I had the same camera. I was a kid and won it in a magazine selling contest through my elementary school. When I was a kid my parents lived in Napavine, Wa and I could hear the geeps and boats lugging up the hill from Chehalis. I would hop on my Schwinn bike and ride about 3/4 mile down to the tracks. You would not believe the stuff I got pictures of when I was a kid. Ahhh the memories! Ryan
Kurt, There's some great rare stuff on there. The 7502 is one of a tiny handful of SD40-2B's built on BN. The RLM unit was a great catch too.
Ryan, Napavine Hill was legendary in the 70's!! BN, UP, MILW, and the locomotives that rolled over that hill, awesome!! Some of the pic's I've taken I don't even know what kind of brand, or type of loco it was. When something rolled by, or looked cool, I shot it!! :teeth:
Will this work for a while? Some first-generation BN power on the former Frisco in Ft. Smith. Is this ex-NP or ex-GN?
Unfortunately, I was only 4 years old when the MILW pulled out. So I missed out on seeing them coming up the Napavine hill. But you did forget about the SP LAS and SLA that would also come through. One time I got a photo of one of the 2 SP units painted for the 4449's 1984 worlds fair run. I about soiled myself when I saw it just crawling up the hill in daylight colors. But the most memorable of all was what I called the rainbow train. It was a UP with some CNW, MP, and WP motive power mixed in and IIRC it had a WP baywindow crummy on the back.
