Spirit of Washington, Part One

Yesterday I shot the Spirit of Washington, a dinner train, that runs from Renton to Woodinville, Washington. It uses rare F-units for power. The track it runs on is due to be removed for a highway project and it only has about a month left to run. They ran two Spirit trains yesterday, including a lunch charter train for employees of T-mobile. The Quicktime movie above is the Spirit of Washington leaving Renton, followed by the BNSF's Maltby Turn.

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Travel & Events

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• ssloansjca
• Steve
• Sloan
• BNSF
• Spirit
• Washington
• Trains
• Railroading

[homestopper]

No they keep the street rails active up to the point of the Renton Boieng Plant. They use the tracks for transporting the fuselage parts.

[TommyBNSF]

I hope they didn't remove that street running! I saw a BNSF train in that video!

[FoxGTR34Nismo]

I used to live about a block away from the Renton station...it was always awesome seeing those sweeties roll by!

[JZX100Chaser]

Well, there is some bad news, as they officially closed the doors on their business.

I just feel sad for this, I never had one chance to go on. <:-(

[gabrielaperez]

They moved it to Tacoma. The food is delicious and the crime mystery game that sometimes they perform there is fun. Hugs! :)

[PGONEIL]

are they going to move the service to another line?

[Trainman11185]

very nice sounding nathan K3LA on the freight train too

[Trainman11185]

the engineer on the dinner train sure knows how to play that leslie S5T

[Davrodeo]

Did you know about the derailment on this train in 2002?

[ortingdude]

Aug 3! Day 1 in Tacoma! Whoo hoo! I have tickets!