The Walter W. Ainsworth Collection consists of many photographs and documents for a variety of Pacific Northwest railroads.
Ainsworth, Walter W.Documents, photographs, engineering drawings, maps, artifacts and other materials associated with the Burlington Northern Railroad Company.
Still images of railroad equipment, facilities, employees, customers and other railroad-related subjects whether printed photographs, negatives, slides or digital.
Still photographs of railroad rolling stock, typically locomotives, cars or maintenance of way support cars, and including railroad-owned buses and trucks.
Still photographs of locomotives that employ an onboard diesel engine to generate electricity to turn the wheels, as well as locomotives whose diesel engines power the wheels through a gear box or through a hydraulic system.
Burlington Northern Diesel Locomotive 656 at Saint Paul, Minnesota on January 1, 1976. The photograph shows an Electro-Motive Division type F-7, Great Northern Class F-3-7-A. The locomotive is painted in the Great Northern simplified green and orange scheme but has lettering ?BN? stenciled in black below locomotive number. Other subject classes: Locomotive-Diesel
Burlington Northern Diesel Locomotive 5704, undated. The photograph shows Burlington Northern locomotive on turntable. Visible in the background is a Great Northern caboose. The locomotive is painted in the Great Northern Big Sky Blue scheme. Other subject classes: Locomotive-Diesel, Turntable
Burlington Northern Railroad diesel locomotive number 205 at Seattle, Washington, circa 1990. Electro-Motive Division model SW1200 diesel locomotive and model GP38 switching cars at Spokane Street, interlocking tower at left. Other Subject Classes: diesel locomotives, railroad signaling.
Burlington Northern diesel locomotive Number 2076, EMD GP38, with freight train east of Vancouver, Washington, March 1970. Photo by Burlington Northern, Inc.
Burlington Northern Railroad CompanyBurlington Northern diesel locomotive Number 2527, EMD GP35, with an eastbound freight coming out of the Cape Horn tunnel, February 1979. Photo by Robert Johnston.
Johnston, Robert W.