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By:Ron Hawkins
Dates:3/1/1973 - 2/28/2002
Album Info:Various BN EMD F3/7/9 and GP7 thru GP40 freight locomotives
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BN 1772
Title:  BN 1772
Description:  With Mt. Rainier in the background BN 1772 waits for another train to clear before continuing north.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 4/1/2017 6:02:02 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  BN 1772(GP9)
Views:  201   Comments: 2
BN 1772
Title:  BN 1772
Description:  GP9s like BN 1772 working with F units was still a common sight in the Pacific Northwest during the summer of 1980.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 4/1/2017 6:02:36 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BN 1772(GP9)
Views:  199   Comments: 0
BN 1772
Title:  BN 1772
Description:  The caboose is almost in the clear and shortly BN 1772 will be underway.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 4/1/2017 6:03:07 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BN 1772(GP9)
Views:  153   Comments: 1
BN 1772
Title:  BN 1772
Description:  BN 1772 was delivered as GN 699 in April 1957.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 4/1/2017 6:03:44 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 1772(GP9)
Views:  212   Comments: 0
BN 1781
Title:  BN 1781
Description:  BN 1781 along with a F3B and a F9A head south out of Auburn.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 4/4/2017 1:16:42 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BN 1781(GP9)
Views:  238   Comments: 0
BN 1781
Title:  BN 1781
Description:  BN 1781 left the roster in April 1984.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 4/4/2017 1:17:14 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 1781(GP9)
Views:  250   Comments: 0
BN 1841
Title:  BN 1841
Description:  BN 1841 heads a local pass the depot in Kelso.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 4/6/2017 4:23:22 PM
Location:  Kelso, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BN 1841(GP9)
Views:  246   Comments: 0
BN 1841
Title:  BN 1841
Description:  Sometime between 1978 and 1980 the nose was lowered on BN 1841.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 4/6/2017 4:23:54 PM
Location:  Kelso, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 1841(GP9)
Views:  280   Comments: 0
BN 1841
Title:  BN 1841
Description:  Rear view of BN 1841.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 4/6/2017 4:24:24 PM
Location:  Kelso, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 1841(GP9)
Views:  174   Comments: 0
BN 1873
Title:  BN 1873
Description:  BN 1873 leaves the south end of Auburn yard.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 4/15/2017 1:51:08 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 1873(GP9)
Views:  118   Comments: 0
BN 1897
Title:  BN 1897
Description:  BN 1897 was delivered as NP 280 in July 1956.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 4/22/2017 12:36:31 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 1897(GP9)
Views:  181   Comments: 1
BN 1900
Title:  BN 1900
Description:  Rear view of BN 1900.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 4/22/2017 12:37:08 PM
Location:  Centralia, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 1900(GP9)
Views:  135   Comments: 0
BN 1921
Title:  BN 1921
Description:  BN 1921 was retired in July 1983.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 4/22/2017 12:48:48 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 1921(GP9)
Views:  294   Comments: 0
BN 1922
Title:  BN 1922
Description:  BN 1922 leads a four car log train past the Kelso depot.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 4/22/2017 12:49:19 PM
Location:  Kelso, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BN 1922(GP9)
Views:  374   Comments: 1
BN 2223
Title:  BN 2223
Description:  BN 2223 is between two F-units waiting in Auburn yard.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 5/24/2017 10:33:53 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 2223(GP30)
Views:  257   Comments: 0
BN 2527
Title:  BN 2527
Description:  Just another day at the office for BN 2527.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 6/4/2017 8:26:12 PM
Location:  Vancouver, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 2527(GP35)
Views:  249   Comments: 1
BN 602
Title:  BN 602
Description:  BN 602 was delivered as GN 271B in April 1952.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 2/26/2015 6:27:10 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 602(F7A)
Views:  684   Comments: 0
BN 610
Title:  BN 610
Description:  Unlike the other F units at Auburn this day, BN 610 is actually in service.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 12/31/2013 4:18:37 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 610(F7A)
Views:  481   Comments: 0
BN 626
Title:  BN 626
Description:  BN 626 and nine other F units are in storage due to low traffic levels.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 12/31/2013 4:20:37 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 626(F7A)
Views:  351   Comments: 2
BN 626
Title:  BN 626
Description:  BN 626 was delivered as GN 308-C in October 1950.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 12/31/2013 4:25:49 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 626(F7A)
Views:  382   Comments: 1
BN 626
Title:  BN 626
Description:  BN 626 was retired in November 1981.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 12/31/2013 4:26:50 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 626(F7A)
Views:  355   Comments: 1
BN 644
Title:  BN 644
Description:  BN 646 was built for GN and retired in December 1980.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 12/31/2013 4:28:02 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 644(F7A)
Views:  375   Comments: 0
BN 676
Title:  BN 676
Description:  BN 676 sits dead with four other F units in storage at Auburn.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 12/31/2013 5:09:25 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 676(F3A)
Views:  418   Comments: 1
BN 676
Title:  BN 676
Description:  BN 676 will be retired in a few months leaving the roster in December 1980.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 12/31/2013 5:15:07 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 676(F3A)
Views:  439   Comments: 0
BN 684
Title:  BN 684
Description:  BN 684 was retired in December 1980 and sold to Simon.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 12/31/2013 5:23:14 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 684(F7A)
Views:  337   Comments: 0
BN 684
Title:  BN 684
Description:  BN 684 was sold by Simon to Seattle and North Coast where it worked as SNCT 102.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 12/31/2013 5:24:23 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 684(F7A)
Views:  370   Comments: 0
BN 702
Title:  BN 702
Description:  BN 702 is stored in the deadline at Auburn.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 1/4/2014 8:08:50 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 702(F3A)
Views:  408   Comments: 0
BN 703 (2nd)
Title:  BN 703 (2nd)
Description:  BN 703(2nd) is an ex-GN passenger unit renumbered at merger to BN 9707 and retired in December 1980.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 1/4/2014 8:20:08 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 703(F3B)
Views:  635   Comments: 0
BN 704
Title:  BN 704
Description:  BN 704 (2nd) is in the deadline along with four other F units.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 1/18/2014 9:13:47 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 704(F7A)
Views:  424   Comments: 1
BN 704
Title:  BN 704
Description:  BN 704 (2nd) was built for passenger service and delivered to GN in October 1950.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 1/18/2014 9:18:46 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 704(F7A)
Views:  592   Comments: 0
BN 708
Title:  BN 708
Description:  By 1980 BN was one of the very few roads still able to dispatch a A-B-A set of F units. BN 708 is about to head out of town on this warm summer day.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 1/18/2014 9:33:00 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 708(F7A)
Views:  296   Comments: 2
BN 725
Title:  BN 725
Description:  BN 725 has had some work done but is in the deadline.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 1/21/2014 2:30:43 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 725(F7B)
Views:  347   Comments: 0
BN 726
Title:  BN 726
Description:  BN 726 was on of two FP7's built for NP in February 1952.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 1/21/2014 2:38:09 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster,Wreck
Locomotives:  BN 726(FP7A)
Views:  409   Comments: 0
BN 726
Title:  BN 726
Description:  BN 726 was retired and sold for scrap the same month as this photo, August 1980.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 1/21/2014 2:39:35 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster,Wreck
Locomotives:  BN 726(FP7A)
Views:  593   Comments: 0
BN 732
Title:  BN 732
Description:  BN 732 is outside the former NP shops in Auburn.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 1/21/2014 2:41:18 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 732(F7A)
Views:  460   Comments: 1
BN 732
Title:  BN 732
Description:  BN 732 has a little over a year left on the BN roster being retired in November 1981.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 1/21/2014 2:42:58 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 732(F7A)
Views:  429   Comments: 0
BN 735
Title:  BN 735
Description:  BN 735 is in the deadline at Auburn.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 1/21/2014 2:49:23 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 735(F7B)
Views:  392   Comments: 0
BN 738
Title:  BN 738
Description:  Unlike many of the other F-units at Auburn this warm August afternoon BN 738 is actually running.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 1/21/2014 2:58:02 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 738(F7A)
Views:  428   Comments: 0
BN 753
Title:  BN 753
Description:  It may be a sunny day but not for BN 753 parked in the Auburn deadline.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 1/21/2014 3:06:12 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 753(F7B)
Views:  316   Comments: 0
BN 758
Title:  BN 758
Description:  BN 758 is an example of even the pros getting it wrong. Per the lettering chart the number should be next to the rear door and the hearld butted up against the cab ladder. Doesn't matter now as BN 758 is enroute to the scrap yard.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 1/21/2014 3:10:06 PM
Location:  Tacoma, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 758(F7A)
Views:  420   Comments: 0
BN 828
Title:  BN 828
Description:  The end is very near for wreck damaged BN 828 with its official retirement recorded as August 1980.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 3/14/2017 5:37:45 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster,Wreck
Locomotives:  BN 828(F9A)
Views:  435   Comments: 1
BN 828
Title:  BN 828
Description:  BN 828 provides an interesting view inside the nose of a F9A.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 3/14/2017 5:38:14 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster,Wreck
Locomotives:  BN 828(F9A)
Views:  468   Comments: 1
BN 830
Title:  BN 830
Description:  Nose view of BN 830.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 3/14/2017 5:40:43 PM
Location:  Centralia, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 830(F9A)
Views:  244   Comments: 2
BN 830
Title:  BN 830
Description:  BN 830 will soon be leaving with a northbound freight.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 3/14/2017 5:41:11 PM
Location:  Centralia, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 830(F9A)
Views:  161   Comments: 1
BN 830
Title:  BN 830
Description:  Note the white nose stripe above the top headlight on BN 830.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 3/14/2017 5:41:39 PM
Location:  Centralia, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 830(F9A)
Views:  160   Comments: 1
BN 830
Title:  BN 830
Description:  By late afternoon the freight with BN 830 had arrived in Auburn.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 3/14/2017 5:42:18 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 830(F9A)
Views:  185   Comments: 1
BN 838
Title:  BN 838
Description:  BN 838 is leading a southbound freight about to enter Auburn yard.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 3/14/2017 8:22:42 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BN 838(F9A)
Views:  286   Comments: 1
BN 838
Title:  BN 838
Description:  BN 838 was delivered as NP 7012A in March 1956.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 3/14/2017 8:23:08 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 838(F9A)
Views:  256   Comments: 1
BN 844
Title:  BN 844
Description:  BN 844 was the last F9A delivered to NP.
Photo Date:  8/18/1980  Upload Date: 3/14/2017 8:23:37 PM
Location:  Auburn, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 844(F9A)
Views:  377   Comments: 1
BN 1713
Title:  BN 1713
Description:  BN 1713 heads up a short all BN local near Yakima.
Photo Date:  8/19/1980  Upload Date: 3/19/2017 1:46:37 PM
Location:  Yakima, WA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BN 1713(GP9)
Views:  305   Comments: 2


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