Winding down the canyon past some great fishing holes near Roza dam, old Rte. 97 offered a nice view of the NP across the Yakima River.

Pulled by a FT-FT-geep-geep-FT-FT set, a Northern Pacific freight heads westbound into Puyallup, WA, summer 1962. We were on our way to Seattle World's Fair. This is on NP main line east of Tacoma... (more)

Shorn of its Northern Pacific monad but still in NP green, #9814 is making its stop at Pasco, WA, with the North Coast Limited, now a BN train

Waiting for its next call to duty NP F7A rests at Seattle's King St. Station. In the background, is Union Station which, at the time still hosted UP passengers. Today King St. is modernized and Un... (more)

Hostler George Clark is backing the NP 2626 onto the turntable at the Seattle Roundhouse in this rare color photo taken on a rainy February day in 1956.

My objective on this trip was to photograph the last stand of the NP FT units. Here's a GN freight that I photographed near Tacoma, Washington. Hopefully I can find the NP FT shots and post the... (more)

These Alcos sure had a distinctive "chug" to them.

This Alco RS11 and BN F7B work the yards

Switch crew takes a bite at the lunch counter. Honeywell Pentax H1a; Agfachrome

BN 1755 West passes a track gang and upper-quadrant semaphores on the line between Spokane and Pasco as a freight right behind it waits for it to clear.

An ex-Northern Pacific "torpedo boat" leads a Seattle-bound freight toward Seattle.

The crew members of 134 are eyeballing the train order hoop rack for that 40+mph snatch at Ferndale Depot.

The NP rarely if ever ran F-Units into Bellingham. The BN thought otherwise as the New West Local power chills on the pass at Bellingham Depot.