Nostalgia & History > Caption this crew!

My offering: “He wants me to jog up ahead and do WHAT???”

1. MILW 6009 is coming off the Columbia River bridge in Vancouver, WA* on August 1, 1975.
Original Kodachrome slide by the late James W. Watson.

Thanks for playing!
Lance Garrels
santafe199

*Location corrected per replies below...



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/31/25 12:48 by santafe199.

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"Hey, can you see what we just ran over?!"

JG

"If you're gonna keep eatin' those burritos then you can just stand outside."

"what do you mean we missed the turn to Tacoma?"

No air conditioning- no problem out here.

Only two seats in this locomotive - where else does the brakeman go-?

This photo may well be at Ottumwa IA, but it's also a dead ringer for a northbound MILW train from Portland, OR crossing the Columbia River into Vancouver, WA.   Photographer would be standing on the Vancouver station platform.  Double tracks curving to the left from under the train are the BN's ex-SP&S line on the north side of the Columbia river to Wishram / Pasco /  Spokane.    Loco appears to be on top of the derail for the bridge.

MILW had trackage rights on the BN to reach Portland OR from Tacoma WA.  

- Norm

Thats not Ottumwa. That looks more like Vancouver WA
MILW86A 

MILW86A Wrote: > ... Thats not Ottumwa ...
NCA1022 Wrote: > ... it's a dead ringer for ... crossing the Columbia River into Vancouver, WA ...

Yup, I got a PM with the same correction. Good enough for me! Evidently I transposed the location info during the long scanning session(s) through Jim's massive collection. Pretty easy to do when you're scanning upwards of 200 slides in one day. And I wasn't 100% sure myself. I spent time in Google Maps trying but not matching the big bridge with those currently in Ottumwa. That's why I have the question mark behind the river name. I'll get to work with the corrections.

Thanks for alerting me, guys! :^)

Lance

Is that J.David Ingles over there??

"If that guy's not using telephoto, we're gonna be filling out paperwork."
Fred

< < < MILW had trackage rights on the BN to reach Portland OR from Tacoma WA. > > >

I think that the Milwaukee had trackage only between Portland and Chehalis, getting on their own trackage at Chehalis.  

Someone needs Beano!!

From the person looking out the window - "Hey guys, quit arguing and check this out.  There's a bunch of scantily clad women on the platform."

Testing whether riding a U30B is least unpleasant when riding inside, outside, or half-in-half-out.

"Will you shut off that #$%^$ electronic bell already!!!"

"Hey, I just noticed if we rotated our numberboards 180 degrees, they'd still say 6009!"