RailPictures.Net Photo: WDTX 1402 Amtrak Cascades Siemens SC-44 at Tacoma, Washington by Steve Carter

Community Response

Locomotive Details

Location/Date of Photo


Views: 6,338 Favorited: 13
Since added on November 21, 2017

+ Add to Favorites

+ Subscribe

+ Add to Photo Album

+ Post a Photo Comment

» Amtrak Cascades (more..)
» Siemens SC-44 (more..)

» Tacoma Dome Station - Lakewood Sub
» Tacoma, Washington, USA (more..)
» November 18, 2017

Locomotive No./Train ID

Photographer

» WDTX 1402 (more..)
» AMTK 9501 (more..)

» Steve Carter (more..)
» Contact Photographer · Photographer Profile

Remarks & Notes

After a long delay in Seattle's King St Station trying to get WSDOT's new Charger locomotives to link up with Mater (Cab Car), a Cascades test train arrives in Tacoma's Tacoma Dome Station. The train will spend the next several hours running between TR Junction on the BNSF Seattle Sub (north end of the Lakewood Sub) to Nisqually (south end of the Lakewood Sub). The next evening a different train reached the top speed of 79 mph completing certification for the Cascades equipment on Sound Transit's Lakewood Sub. In a few days a Starlight trainset will do the same and if all goes well, passenger trains will begin using the Lakewood sub on 12/18/2017. As the Locomotive says, this is a "SUPER SPECIAL". These are the first WSDOT Chargers to on a Cascades train.

Photo Comments (3)

User Photo Albums Containing this Photo (5)

+ Add to Album

West Coast Railroads Album created by member Ty Kaneshiro	Album Views: 13,646
I have a seperate list for CA

Siemens Charger SC-44; SCB-40 liveries Album created by member Ed Bottum	Album Views: 3,952
thanks to the photographers! One in my album series of North American passenger train locomotive liveries.

Tier IV Compliant Album created by member John Westfield	Album Views: 25,423
Tier IV locomotives are the safest, cleanest, and most fuel efficient locomotives on the rails today. Unfortunately, most of them are ugly and are as quiet as an ACS-64.

Nocturnal Nuances & Lights In The Night! (Between Sunset - Sunrise / Sundown - Sunup!) Album created by member Dana M.	Album Views: 444,950
A continuously growing album of photos that IMHO reveal the awesome and seldom-seen beauty of the railroad world from the dimming of day to dawn's early light! From dusk to dawn, trains roll on! (I'm still finding gems of sunset-to-sunrise surprises!)

DreamTrains Album created by member coco13cos	Album Views: 3,006,161
Over 50.000 of RP's most appreciated and beautiful photos.

Add to Photo Album or Get Your Own Photo Album

EXIF Data for this photo: [What's this?]

This image contains EXIF headers - Click Here to show the data.

Photo Copyright © 2017 Steve Carter. All Rights Reserved. Photo Usage Policy
This website Copyright © 2002-2024. All Rights Reserved.