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Monday afternoon 11-17-08 I was eating lunch in Seattle and saw a southbound Herzog train with a BNSF unit at each end. It was sunny but the sun angle poor so I did not get a photo of it. But as I was finished eating I headed down to Argo to see if I could catch it again in better light. I was lucky. It was indeed slowing to a stop waiting on another train.

A northbound UP train was entering their yard from Main 2. I noticed there was a single unit on the head end. As the rear of the doublestack train came into view I noticed another UP unit in DPU mode. Interesting. I was up on the Albro Place S overpass and photographed the UP 8309 as it slowly rolled away from my camera.

Note the frame stripe is a combination of yellow and red. Guess some of the yellow came off showing the red stripe underneath.

After it was in the clear the Herzog train continued south. BNSF 2914 was in the lead.

I checked on the heritage of the BNSF 2914 and see it is ex-BN 2532, a former GP35 built as CB&Q 986.

Bringing up the rear was BNSF 2884, also a rebuilt BN GP35. This one came from the BN 2523 built as the Great Northern 3040. Note the power unit on the Herzog train. Kind of a GP38 from the looks of the fans on the roof.

Kind of a nice distraction from the normal stuff seen along the Seattle Sub.