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Silver, Orange and Green Units In the early 70's Western Pacific had lots of their Orange and Silver Units around. Some of the new Perlman Green units had appeared and points east and north of Oroville had BN pool units gathered from the BN's contributing railroads. The Feather River Canyon was a great places to hang out. |
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| After the merger with NP, GN, SP&S and Burlington, the Burlington Northern worked with the Western Pacific to try to capture some of Southern Pacific's Northwest to California traffic. What is now the BNSF Gateway Sub was a combination of Western Pacific and BN trackage going from Keddie in California's Feather River Canyon to Klamath Falls, Oregon known as the Inside Gateway. Colorful sets of power were the rule on Highline trains | ||||||
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The unit below not an H1 repaint, it is a GN unit numbered for BN | ||||
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To the left and above, BN-WP Pool trains head up the Highline from Keddie. |
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| Hustle Muscle was Great Northern's first SD 45. In this shot, at Oroville, the new BN number has been applied |
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One of BN's former Alco 636s leads a highline train up the Feather River Canyon |
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UP on the old WP - 1970 |
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James was a great place to catch WPs 4 axel units climbing out of California's central valley. | |||
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The Keddie Wye was a great place to hang out and watch the parade of multi-colored power. | |||||
| East of Quincy. The all green set is crossing its train at Williams loop |
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West portal of tunnel 35 at Spring Garden, |
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The Western Pacific Collection