BNSF and Other NW Washington Hobby Trains

Now before I was born one of the common road names was Great Northern. They had a color pattern of orange, dark green with yellow trim. After they went there was the silver and red Santa Fe and the green and white Burlington Northern in the 70's.

Sometime in the 80's there was a merger and the BNSF, Burlington Northern & Santa Fe became the common train around here. They then painted their engines the colors of the Great Northern as a tribute. It's very nice to see such color.

Seattle and north we can also see CN, Canadian National. They have black and red with white stripes. A very bold and cool color scheme.

The old are mixed in with the new. Very old green and white cabooses with yellow fronts are still used for maintenance crews, new extra long tank cars are all black with tiny BNSF on them, and old hoppers are painted heavily with beautiful graffiti. Brown and tan CN grain hoppers are mixed in with light grey Santa Fe grain hoppers. And long 100 car lines of green and silver BN auto carriers or yellow Trailer Train container cars go by along the shore.

This is about what we see north of Seattle. Just south of Seattle the road names are much more mixed. But I must include the Amtrak and Sounders commuter train.

Once in a while I do see very old glacier blue Great Northern box car.

HO RTR 40' Grain Box, GN #6824

SP& S, Seattle, Portland and Spokane HO box car.

Columbia Gorge Lines.