Due to mechanical problems with the Talgo trainsets, Amtrak is using a variety of older equipment to maintain service on the Cascade Corridor between Eugene and Seattle. On Saturday, Train 516 departed Vancouver with the Cascades F59 and NPCU acting as bookends to the older silver cars.
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Six years ago next month, the Red Line light rail train to the Portland Airport began operation providing a direct rail connection from the passenger terminal to downtown Portland. Here, a train leaves the airport with a summer sunset in the background.
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I see that with the substitute Cascades service that Amtrak has a new slogan. Considering the annual Amtrak funding issues the fact a train has arrived is probably worth advertising.
Promoting Successes
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Union Pacific is well known for the slogans they’ve placed on their locomotives over the years. We Will Deliver… and Building America are the two most recent that come to mind. Those phrases are designed to evoke the feeling of competence about what the company does and to show that confidence around the community and customers.
I saw a locomotive slogan yesterday that cuts through all the corporate advertising and propaganda and gets down to basics about what every railroader dreams of from each trip they take on the road…
FLASH US PLEASE…and the sooner the better!
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Amongst my many contacts over on Flickr are several other railfans. One of them, Patrick Dirden, was recently in Vancouver and snapped a photo of the Columbia River Drawbridge from the station platform. There are no trains in the image but he put together a wonderful composition which shows the lines of the open draw span nicely.
I’ve been down there hundreds of times, yet I don’t think I’ve ever taken this shot. Sometimes it takes a fresh set of eyes to see something that’s been in our faces all along…
Click on the image to view it larger or check out more of Patrick’s work.
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