Port of Tillamook Bay (POTB) 4406 - EMD SD9
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POTB 4406
Stored out-of-service beside the Tillamook Air Museum
Still on guard at the former NAS Tillamook; it moved a few yards since my previous visit.
Two icons which have seen better days: POTB SD9E 4406 and the surviving blimp hangar of former NAS Tillamook.
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Moving down to the end of the train to pull it on our way back
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This is one of my favorite railroad pictures i've taken
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Slowly approaching the switch
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Grabbing the head-end of the train out of the old quarry"spur.
No,&your eyes don't deceive you, that's 5 SD9s! They are all facing the same way, I wonder how that happened.
Pullirg up the 3% grade at Cochran. I think this was actually a double, as the rails were quite shiny here but rusty on other parts of the line. They had enough cars where I can see where tonnage would have warranted it.
POTB FX-4414-20 heads through Manning.
7000HP worth of SD9s switches at Banks.
The engine my AIM Screenname honors is on the point of FX-4414-18 at Banks while doing some switching.
My namesake on AIM unit (POTB 4406 is me) is the second unit on the FX-4414-20...
