SP&S ALCO FA-1 diesel locomotive Number 861 at the Great Northern shops at Hillyard, Washington in September 1955. Photo by Stan Styles.

SP&S Alco FA-1 diesel locomotive Number 860 at the Great Northern shops at Hillyard, Washington. Photo by Stan Styles.

SP&S ALCO FA-1 diesel locomotive Number 860 with Great Northern 6,000 horsepower ALCO FA-1 set Number 440 at the enginehouse at Bend, Oregon. The GN 440 set would later be sold to the SP&S in January 1950 and would become 862 A-1, 862 B-1, 862 B-2, and 862 A-2.

SP&S ALCO FA-1 diesel locomotive Number 860 with Great Northern 6,000 horsepower ALCO FA-1 set Number 440 at the enginehouse at Bend, Oregon. The GN 440 set would later be sold to the SP&S in January 1950 and would become 862 A-1, 862 B-1, 862 B-2, and 862 A-2. From the Jack Holst collection at the Pacific Northwest Chapter-National Railway Historical Society.

SP&S ALCO FA-1 diesel locomotive Number 859, now Burlington Northern, on the shop tracks at Vancouver, Washington on March 22, 1970.

SP&S ALCO FA-1 diesel locomotive Number 859, former 858 A-2, on the roundhouse track next to Northern Pacific steam power at Pasco, Washington on August 5, 1953. Photo by James Fredrickson.

SP&S ALCO FA-1 diesel locomotive Number 859 with another FA-1 and an ALCO RS-3 gets a freight train underway at Avery, Washington on May 11, 1969. Photo by F. Senfert.

SP&S ALCO FA-1 diesel locomotive Number 858, now as Burlington Northern, in the yard at Vancouver, Washington.

SP&S ALCO FA-1 diesel locomotive Number 856 in a multiple unit lashup at the enginehouse at Wishram, Washington.

SP&S ALCO FA-1, 6,000 horsepower diesel locomotive set Number 856 and consisting from right to left are FA-1 Number 856 A-2, FB-1 Number 856 B-2, FB-1 Number 856 B-1, and FA-1 Number 856 A-1. These sets would later be broken apart and the locomotives were renumbered in 1951.