This gal doesn't get out much, but if you can coax her out of the house, she'll definitely show you a good time! Spokane, Portland and Seattle #700, a massive E-1 Class, 4-8-4 Northern Loc... (more)

Spokane, Portland & Seattle No. 700 smokes it up during a photo runby on Day 3 of a four-day round trip from Portland, Ore., to Spokane, Wash., and return. While the trip started out with no diese... (more)

As Northern Pacific’s pool Train 408 departs Vancouver, Washington and is about to cross the Columbia River into Oregon and Portland, SP&S Alco RS-3 81 uses the lead to switch cars.

Spokane, Portland & Seattle puts on a show during a photo runby at Avery, Wash., on the first day of a four day trip to Pasco.

SP&S 700 and train back across the Seattle Sub on the middle lead in Vancouver, WA, 12/21/13.

BN 4360 at Vancouver. Slide was traded for years ago, no photographer information.

BN 4077 rests at Vancouver in this shot from my collection. I traded for this slide years ago, no photographer listed.

Repair work is performed on the end of SP&S 272 at the Northwest Railway Museum's Conservation & Restoration Center. This car was built as... (more)

Just a guess on the location of this shot from my collection. Nothing on the slide except the road number and the Kodak date stamp. The SP&S FA's that made it into BN service didn't last long and ... (more)

In this photo from my collection BN 4193 leads two more ex NP RS-11"s and a SP&S FA on a westbound manifest at Pasco.

Five units still in pre-merger schemes leads this BN southbound at Tacoma in this shot from the spring of 1972. The Ex SP&S FA's didn't last very long in BN service. If I remember correctly they w... (more)

Only a month or so from retirement RS-2 4001 rests in company of another "short timer" on the BN roster. No photographer information on slide and its my guess about it being at Vancouver due to th... (more)

Recently rebuilt SP&S 700 rolls through Lyle on its first long-distance test run to Wishram. Those freight cars and leased EMD GP38 756 served the Goldendale Branch, abandoned shortly after this p... (more)

Spokane Portland & Seattle 4-8-4 701 was one of three Class E-1 4-8-4s built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in May, 1938. They were virtually identical to the Northern Pacific Class A-3 except that t... (more)