VANCOUVER WA May 4 2011 — Amtrak P42DC 134 slows for a station stop with the southbound Coast Starlight. General electric built the unit (s/n 52814) in December 2000. My photo.

VANCOUVER WA May 2 2008 — Amtrak F59PHI 468 leads a Cascades train to a stop at the Amtrak station. EMD built the unit (s/n 996722-19) in October 1998 for Amtrak Cascades service in the Pacific... (more)

VANCOUVER WA Feb 19 2011 — Columbia Business Center CBCX SSB1200 565 shows off its new paint job. It is tied down east of the interchange track. The elevated BNSF mains are in the background. Co... (more)

VANCOUVER WA July 6 2009 — Switcher San Bernardino 1200 CBCX 565 is tied down at the old Kaiser Shipyard. The 565 is operated by Columbia Business Center and the switching operation interchanges... (more)

VANCOUVER WA Sept 8 2008 — Columbia Business Center 80-ton Whitcomb CBCX 101 is stored near Thompson Metal Fab in the former Kaiser Shipyards. Whitcomb built the unit in July 1944 and delivered ... (more)

VANCOUVER WA Oct 2 1978 — Retired Burlington Northern RS3 4082 (Northern Pacific paint for lawsuit) sits in the sun at the engine facility. Alco built the unit (b/n 81155) in March 1955 as NP 85... (more)

VANCOUVER WA May 7 2009 — BNSF ES44DC 7603 makes its way south on the Seattle Sub. It has just passed under the Fruit Valley signals and will shortly pass under the East 39th Street overpass. Ge... (more)

VANCOUVER WA Feb 25 2011 -- BNSF C44-9W 4407 is stopped for a crew change during its transition from the Seattle Sub to the Fallbridge Sub. General Electric built the unit My photo.

VANCOUVER WA Jan 26 2009 — BNSF GP38-2 2339 is tied down on the tail track as BNSF ES55DC 7669 approaches from the north at the point of the Coast Starlight. In the background is the Mill Plain ... (more)

BNSF 6111 sits with "Stu's Caboose", a heritage caboose that typically is found in use as a shoving platform in Seattle, in the Vancouver Yard. The pair were here for a car show event th... (more)

VANCOUVER WA Oct 2 1978 — A sunny day finds Burlington Northern C425 4262 undergoing work at the engine facility south of West 39th Street. The unit was built in June 1966 and delivered as Spoka... (more)

Clean Stickers!

The roster of the Columbia Business Center short line is present in this photo: SW1200 CBCX 565, GE 80 tonner CBCX 102, and the tiny bit of orange behind it is GE 25 tonner CBCX 103

VANCOUVER WA Oct 2 1978 — Burlington Northern SW1000 388 handles switching duties. My photo.

Two BN vets handle the Longview-Pasco manifest. The train is making a pickup in Vancouver, WA before continuing east.