CSX 3088 heads up the second of two eastbound trains held up at Wenatchee for track work being done at Adrian, WA about 60 miles east. This empty oil train and an eastbound stack train waited for ... (more)

Little did I know in early June 1974 when I made my first brief visit to Wenatchee and caught these cabooses, all former GN except BN 10523, that nearly 40 years later I would retire to this commu... (more)

A BN crew makes a light engine move in front of the Wenatchee, WA yard office as they grab power for local. The late afternoon timing would lead me to expect this power was for the turn to Omak. A... (more)

The Spud Local eases to a stop at the east end of Appleyard while a Boeing train rolls up the main on the left. Both trains will stop short of switch one while the SPOEVE enters the yard from the ... (more)

Christmas greetings from snowy Wenatchee, where unlike last winter, the snow has been falling on a near daily basis for the past week. Here BNSF 6530 is anxious to get its Q train moving off the C... (more)

BNSF 12562 brings up the rear of a BNSF fire train which they brought into Wenatchee and stationed it on the main just in case after a major wild fire broke out near their tracks west of Wenatchee... (more)

BNSF 5656 is serving as a DPU on a westbound vehicle train in the process of leaving Appleyard in Wenatchee, WA to head over Stevens Pass to the Puget Sound area. The BNSF employee works the yard ... (more)

BNSF 4626 was heading a Seattle-Chicago stack train out of Appleyard about 530 AM May 13 when an apparent broken rail caused the second 5 platform stack set to derail and roll over. This view show... (more)

Hulcher crews are getting the mainline cleared. At this point they have separated the first platform from the other four units on the third 5 unit set. They have toed the set to the left, and in t... (more)

A Hulcher crew member torches the couplers between the first and second platform set while a BNSF employee communicates about the progress on the clean up. This had to be done in order to tilt the... (more)

This view of the Appleyard derailment on May 13 shows the third stack train 5 platform set. The first platform jack knifed as a result of the second set on the right tipping over. BNSF personnel i... (more)

This view of the Appleyard derailment on May 13 shows the rear unit, UP 7702 and the first 5 platform stack set. It appears the second set went off the rails due to a broken rail and landed on its... (more)

Rush hour in Wenatchee, BN style five years into the 1970 merger. Far left, a former GN caboose, still red, observes a westbound freight ready to depart on the mainline featuring the usual GP9/F7B... (more)

An eastbound stack train rolls by the Cascadian Cold Storage building as it slows for a crew change in Wenatchee.

BNSF 3029, a GP40E, rebuilt from CBQ GP40 No. 179 switches cement cars in downtown Wenatchee about 9 AM while a work train pulls out of West Yard onto Main 2. It will back its 9 ballast loads and ... (more)