Passenger Trains > The Old And The New In Tacoma

The old and the new in Tacoma, or you could call this the $6 million backdrop.

One of the fun parts about Amtrak moving to the inland, Point Defiance Bypass route, is finding new places to take pictures. I spotted this old building last year when shooting Sounder commute trains, but it wasn't until Amtrak ran test and training trains this past weekend that I figured out how to get to the right spot for this shot.

The century-old brick building, built during the heyday of Tacoma's furniture making era, once housed the Wilamette Casket Co. The 240,000-square-foot building sold for $6 million in 2018, and reports say it is fully leased.

Pictured is the final southbound test run on Saturday.

 

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Man, talk about being beaten by the ugly stick......WOW!

Yeah, I've been trying to remember where I saw that profile before. It's a Brachiosaurus !

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Wow, what a pile of steaming ...

Very nice shot!

EL-SD45-3632 Wrote:
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> Man, talk about being beaten by the ugly
> stick......WOW!

Indeed! Raymond Lowey must be turning over in his grave. 

UGLY is too kind a description!

Marty Harrison
Knob Noster, MO

           I've posted photos of these new style cabcars before and I think they attract about as many jokes as
        the planet Uranus.  Very nice photo by the way, that old building looks like it would be worth working into
        a lot of photos.

                  Jeff

"Headlights" in the wrong place,but otherwise an uncanny resemblance!

   Tom

Ok I know these things were built to American safety standards, but how in the World are these things built nearly as safe as say a more F59 or P40-style design where the engineer sits way higher up? Still baffles me..

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Thanks for the photo, Mr. B.  Too bad a casket can't be made for that cabcar!

-John