Window shot on Olympic peninsula

Appears to be the remnants of the Discovery RR park, no longer open. The GE 80 tonner is a non-operating shell.

http://www.rrpicturearchives.n...ture.aspx?id=1636176 

Discovery Bay is along the former Milwaukee branch line between Port Townsend and Port Angeles. It was an isolated line that brought railcars by barge from Seattle. After the Milwaukee Road folded, this branch ran as the Seattle and North Coast from about 1980 to 1984. The track was in terrible shape with a lot of 10mph speed restrictions, I think. They were trying to do some upgrading, typical shortline struggle for survival. Maybe there was a tourist train that operated at Discovery Bay at one time?

I happened to stay at a motel at the "bottom" of Discovery Bay when I was on vacation from Omaha in 1980, the day before Mt St Helens blew up.

The Seattle and North Coast had a cool paint scheme, I've wanted to get a boxcar with that scheme. I think they operated (briefly) with old F units?

Yes, they ran F units. They sat derelict at the barge dock just north of the West Seattle bridge until the early 90s.

Here's one in Seattle?

And a site with some info about the S&NC including mention of passenger special runs in 1982.

http://www.train-orders.com/RFAN/SNCT/SNCT.html

Here's one in Seattle?

Ace

That is Pier 27 in Seattle.  The container cranes in the background are across the East Waterway on Harbor Island.

The picture of SNCT #101 intrigued me as the engine had several GN features. A little research revealed it was originally GN 274-B, part of a two-unit F7 A-A freight set. It became BN610, and it was during its life on BN when it acquired that General Steel Casting snowplow pilot which was typical of GN passenger units.

This unit is now the restored GN 274 owned by Doyle McCormack. Doyle's unit has a headlight in the nose door, a modification which Doyle must have made himself.