The Spokane, Portland and Seattle seems to be the forgotten child of two mammoth parents, but despite its lack of notoriety it still has a very colorful past in Washington. And they loved ALCOs. Kevin Piper shot the above photo in June 1971 while visiting Vancouver with his grandfather. He described the trip like this:"My grandfather had a thing about Alco FA's. He also had several "Lionel" ones. We went looking for BN FA's still in service on that trip in June '71, but only found one (the one in the photo you mentioned) and it was in dead storage. My grandpa hated Cascade Green, so we ignored all the green stuff we saw. (I secretly liked it though.) Oh well."
You can see the rest of Kevin's great archive shots HERE!
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Love that guys shots. He seems to have lots of oldies, but the BN stuff is the best. Thanks for promoting him.
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Agreed. His archive shots are really great, and provide some of us with a true view into the world of railroading that we were too young to understand. He's also a heck of a guy too!
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