Dogcaught: A Railroad Blog » motive power http://www.dogcaught.com Illustrations of Pacific Northwest Railroading Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:22:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 A Classy Surprise http://www.dogcaught.com/2008/04/14/a-classy-surprise/ http://www.dogcaught.com/2008/04/14/a-classy-surprise/#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:31:44 +0000 Aaron Hockley http://www.dogcaught.com/2008/04/14/a-classy-surprise/

Yesterday Vancouver had a surprise foreign visitor, KCS 4100 which I believe is the class unit of their SD70ACe series in the newer Heritage paint scheme. It was the trailing unit on a westbound train at 8th street (in some amazingly craptastical lighting… but you take what you can get, right?).

A Classy Surprise

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Recently I went about town for some photo taking opportunities and managed to grab a few decent shots of a Portland & Western freight rolling on through Union Station downtown. It’s been gorgeous the last few days and I just figured that at least a few trains ought to be photographed.

Portland & Western Peeking Around the Corner
Portland & Western Power

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For some reason there is a strong association between Christmas and trains.  Stores include trains in their holiday displays.  Many folks have a loop of track around their tree.  And, if you’re the Oregon Zoo, Christmas provides a great time to light up Washington Park and Zoo Railway’s #1 steam locomotive as part of ZooLights:

photo of steam locomotive at zoolights

Merry Christmas to all!

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Yesterday morning I was sitting at work and got an instant message from Steve saying that he heard the SP&S 700 on the radio going past an approach signal at MP 769.  Since that’s about five blocks from my office, I decided it was a good time for a break and headed that way in a brisk walk.  The locomotive was onto the OPR, and unfortunately unless I was going to trespass my photo angle would be aiming southeast into the sun.  I believe the term “craptastic” applies, but hey, it’s a steam train, so I’m going to post it.

SP&S 700

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Vancouver has a modest (very modest?) engine service facility just south of 39th St. Power is serviced here as required with a preference given to fueling at Hauser, ID if there’s enough gas in the tank. While waiting at the 39th St. crossing a few weeks ago I captured the Z train power getting the once over.

Fill 'er Up!

 

A BNSF crew fuels and checks a set of power before its next assignment.

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