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MILW U30B 5609flagVancouver WA Vancouver

MILW 5609 heads north on BN between Vancouver and Seattle, WA.

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©  Jun 10, 1979


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MILW 5609 heads north on BN between Vancouver and Seattle, WA.



Milwaukee engines rarely got to run fast out west unless they were on BN's Vancouver/Seattle mainline. Milwaukee had trackage rights on that stretch, dating from 1970 when they were granted certain conditions by the ICC as a result of the BN merger which combined Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Chicago Burlington & Quincy and Spokane Portland & Seattle. In the above photo, the engineer is blowing out the cobwebs and doing over 50 MPH with mixed freight for the Tacoma/Seattle area.
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