Fallen Flags: Seattle & North Coast--Rock and Roll!

[JadedRomantic]

Look at how that train rocks back and forth--its a miracle it stayed on the tracks. The Milwaukee Road really let things go

[SBSBallard]

Beautiful. The SNC #101 was stored up at Mount Rainier Scenic RR for many years, but it's gone now.....

[n9amc]

I lived near Bellingham for years, now live near Kansas City, with a KC Southern rail line about 200 yards away. Out walking the dog today and saw an old box car with "Seattle and North Coast" painted over on the side of the car, but still legible. Some of the cars are still knocking around, i guess.

(and what's with this trainmancw?)

[1957kenworth]

the last train was a passenger train a work train followed but stayed at rayonier mill and when the pass train went threw the work train shoved 2 sulfer cars into a siding and went into port angeles and pulled the tracks up as they left

[neighborlynut]

I like bikes but nothing beats a train. That's too bad they pulled up the tracks, might have been useful again someday...

[Milwroad1]

Thanks for posting the video; I remember when the SNCT was going through Sequim Bay State Park, where I was camping in the early 80's. The tracks are all gone now:( RIP SNCT.

[CavoriteProductions]

Great video! I'm modeling a freelanced version of the SNCT in HO and any time I feel my trackwork isn't up to snuff, I watch this!

[TTX101]

Agreed! Memories from half a lifetime ago. Thanks!

[monty5329]

I think I remember an article- was there only interchange via the car float?

[TTX101]

Yes, the line ran from Port Townsend to Port Angeles on northwest Washington's Olympic Peninsula, a distance of about 45 miles. The only interchange with the rest of the world was a set of railcar barges that were pushed down Puget Sound by tugboat, exchanging cars at the Seattle waterfront.

[TTX101]

The Seattle & North Coast was a great shortline, (even if it ran on a shoestring and didn't last long). It had great character - an interesting collection of equipment (especially those F units). It ran through beautiful scenery (the north Olympic Peninsula, often running beside the Straits of Juan DeFuca in the shadow of the Olympic Mountains). It had interesting features like large paper and pulp mills, agricultural customers, and car ferry service. It was made for model railroaders!

[AZZ124567]

what ever happened to the Seattle and North Coast anyway? I saw that in a 1984 or 1985 book called a Train Watchers guide to North American Railroads published by Kalmbach Books

Andy Bowe

[e44e33]

The rails were torn up and most of it was turned into a hike/bike trail.

[hallsflat]

The F's were ex BN nee-NP and GN if I am not mistaken. The line was on an island and everything came in on a ferry right? I know it was an ex-Milwaukee Road branch.

[TTX101]

Hi, Hallsflat!

The S&NC was not actually on an island, it served Washington State's Olympic Peninsula, running between Port Townsend and Port Angeles, with rail barge ferry service from Port Townsend to the Seattle waterfront to interchange traffic with BN and UP.

[TTX101]

For model railroaders who like this seen, MDC used to make nice models of both the S&NC boxcars and the Longview, Portland and Northern cars that were on this train. The farthest point west on the line, the Crown Z (now Daishowa paper) mill, used to load the orange cars with huge rolls of telephone "yellow pages" directory paper. Now, of course, the entire line has been a bike trail for a decade or more.

[TTX101]

Nice video - and old memories. I remember when S&NC got the three F units from Burlington Northern (you got 101 and 102; there was also a 103). They also had an ancient ex-Milwaukee Road SD-9 that never made it out of orange and black livery (like the caboose). They did nice paint on the F units, and also on their switchers, though. They had an SW-1 in nice forest green and black that used to switch the industries in Port Angeles, the western terminus of the line.

Thanks!

[7674Princess]

Wow..Look at those units waddle back and forth..Now thats what I call old school classic rock...lol

[trainmasterfm2]

F-units i like

[RANDY2045]

good video