Northern Pacific passenger train number 408, Seattle-Portland, stands Union Station in Tacoma, Washington, on November 26, 1967. Led by Electro-Motive Division diesel unit number 6705A, train crew includes conductor F. D. Hodges and engineer Burt. Train carries baggage car, coaches, cafeteria car, and parlor-lounge car. Photo by J.M. Fredrickson. Other Subject Classes: passenger train, diesel locomotive, passenger station

Northern Pacific passenger train number 408, Seattle-Portland, at Tacoma, Washington, on January 22, 1967. Led by diesel locomotive unit number 6706A and on an unusual detour route due to disruption on the normal Point Defiance line, train is crossing Foss Waterway drawbridge before heading down the incline into Union Station, and after its stop will back out of the station and continue its trip on the Prairie line through South Tacoma and Lakeview, and rejoin the mainline at Nisqually. J.M. Fredrickson Collection. Other Subject Classes: passenger train, diesel locomotive, bridge, detour

Northern Pacific passenger train number 408, Seattle-Portland, stands Union Station in Tacoma, Washington, on November 26, 1967. Led by Electro-Motive Division diesel unit number 6705A, train crew includes conductor F. D. Hodges and engineer Burt. Train carries baggage car, coaches, cafeteria car, and parlor-lounge car. Photo by J.M. Fredrickson. Other Subject Classes: passenger train, diesel locomotive, passenger station

Northern Pacific passenger train number 408, Seattle-Portland, departs Tacoma, Washington, on May 13, 1965. Led by diesel locomotive unit number 6503A, train is just east of McCarver Street, carries baggage car, coaches, dining car, parlor-lounge car, and Pullman sleeping car for Oakland, transferred to Southern Pacific at Portland. Photo by J.M. Fredrickson. Other Subject Classes: passenger train, diesel locomotive

Northern Pacific passenger train number 408, Seattle-Portland, departs Tacoma, Washington, on May 13, 1965, approaching McCarver Street. On the rear of the train is Union Pacific 10-roomette, 6-double bedroom sleeping car "Pacific Beach," through Seattle sleeper to be transferred at Portland to Southern Pacific train number 11, the Cascade, to Oakland, California, a service soon to be discontinued. Photo by J.M. Fredrickson. Other Subject Classes: passenger train, passenger car

Northern Pacific passenger train number 408, Seattle-Portland, emerges from short tunnel under the smelter at Ruston, Washington, west of Tacoma, in 1963. Diesel locomotive unit number 6510A leads the train, with crew including conductor Hodges and engineer Hyllengren. Photo by J.M. Fredrickson. Other Subject Classes: passenger train, diesel locomotive, tunnel, structure

Northern Pacific passenger train number 408, Seattle-Portland, emerges from the short tunnel under the smelter at Ruston, Washington, west of Tacoma, in March 1963, led by diesel locomotive unit number 6505A. Photo by J.M. Fredrickson. Other Subject Classes: passenger train, diesel locomotive, tunnel, structure

Northern Pacific passenger train number 408, Seattle-Portland, emerges from the short tunnel under the smelter at Ruston, Washington, west of Tacoma, in 1963, led by diesel locomotive unit number 6504A. Photo by J.M. Fredrickson. Other Subject Classes: passenger train, diesel locomotive, tunnel, structure

Northern Pacific passenger train number 408, Seattle-Portland, passes wharves and industries as it departs Tacoma, Washington, on April 15, 1952, behind a three-unit 4500-hp diesel locomotive led by number 6502, a 1500-hp model F3 unit built by Electro-Motive Division of General Motors in 1947, train carries baggage car, coaches, restaurant-tavern car, parlor car, Pullman sleeping cars for Oakland transferred at Portland to Southern Pacific. Photo by J.M. Fredrickson. Other Subject Classes: passenger train, diesel locomotive, structure

Northern Pacific passenger train number 408, Seattle-Portland, climbs upgrade out of Tacoma, Washington, on April 13, 1949. Led by Class A Northern-type steam locomotive number 2608, train is on unusual detour via Prairie line due to earthquake damage on normal Point Defiance line. Photo by J.M. Fredrickson. Other Subject Classes: passenger train, steam locomotive, detour