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Earlier in the morning, but a few days later Train #8, P42DC #117 leads
The Empire Builder as she races through Radnor, Montana:
Late summer of 2016, the sun is just up. Train #8, The Empire Builder,
with P42DC #95, is seconds from Belton, Montana:
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It is late summer of 2015, and in early morning sunlight, people are
already arriving. Amtrak's "Train Days" display is in Whitefish, Montana.
Led by two of their 40th Anniversary units, F40PHR #406, and P40DC #822:
At the tail end of #406's train, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad "Moonlight Dome":
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A short time later, #8 hustles away from the Whitefish, Montana, station stop:
It's a very hazy Spring afternoon, 2013, and Train #8 is late.
P42DC #134 and 179 are wasting no time at Lupfer, Montana:
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Running a few hours late, #8 was really making up time at Columbia Falls, Montana.
P42DC #116, 152 were leading the charge this Summer day of 2012:
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Spring of 2010 and Operation Lifesaver is out traveling.
P42DC #3 and #144 with train await visitors at Whitefish, Montana:
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It's a rather warm July of 2009 day. Specially painted P42DC units #157 and 71 have
Disney's "A Christmas Carol" Tour promotional train set out. Feels odd to know it is a hot day,
when that Holiday would actually see snow on the ground here in Whitefish, Montana:
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Summer is ending, so it's not quite full daylight this 2008 morning at Whitefish, Montana.
Train #8, The Empire Builder has just arrived behind P42DC engines #139 and #54.
Late out of Spokane, our engineer, (standing at left), actually brought us in a little early:
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On a hot August afternoon in 2008 Train #8, The Empire Builder, arriving at her Edmonds,
Washington station stop. Had a nice chat with the Agent, (in cart), while we awaited P42DC #183:
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Pushing Train 506 out of town is F59PHI #469:
A nice July, 2008 afternoon and pulling away from her stop at Centralia, Washington,
is F40PH-2c #90340, with Cascades Train 506:
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Midwest flooding has made Train #7, the "Empire Builder", late today. It's early July
of 1993. This afternoon she speeds through Monroe, Washington headed by F40PHR #290:
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A dark Fall of 1988 day sees F40PH #271 heading Train #12, the "Coast Starlight",
through Auburn, Washington. A bystander is eating lunch, seated on the freight ramp:
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Later that day F40PHR #363 with a Seattle-bound "Mount Rainier" Train #796 arrives
at the Amshack in Tacoma. Tracks into Union Station are sadly by this date long gone:
Mid-Spring of 1988, F40PHR #240 pops out of the Ruston (Washington), Tunnel.
This is a southward "Coast Starlight", Train #12:
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A late afternoon during early Spring of 1988. F40PHR's #320 and 369 have the
"Empire Builder" in tow, as Train #8 has just passed North Portal tower in Seattle:
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This Spring of 1988 afternoon, F40PHR #390 has been serviced at the Burlington
Northern Railroad's Interbay (Seattle) roundhouse. A crew is arriving to take her
down to a waiting train at Seattle's King Street Station:
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Spring of 1988 finds F40PHR #408 inside the Burlington Northern's Interbay
(Seattle) roundhouse, in need of some mechanical attention:
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Spring of 1981 and a "Mount Rainier" speeds toward Seattle, passing Continental Grain's
Tacoma, Washington Facilities. F40PH #215 passes Pacific Transportation Services #122, (leased
to Continental Grain), an FM H10-44 which was ex-Chehalis Western Railroad #492:
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Early Spring of 1981 the "Coast Starlight", F40PHR #231 and Train #11:
is ready to depart Portland Union Station for Seattle:
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It's a foggy and drizzling winter of 1981 morning at Tacoma Union Station. A "Mount
Rainier" from Portland is pulling into the platform with F40PH #227 in front:
A dismal afternoon, Fall of 1980. A "Mount Rainier" is readying to
depart for Seattle, from Portland Union Station. F40PHR #251 at the head end:
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Winter of 1980 and we catch F40PH #217 heading to Seattle with the "Pacific
International". Here seen coming through Fairhaven (South Bellingham), Washington:
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