Two GP9s, Northern Pacific 246 and 231 help a rerouted extra freight train across Pacific Avenue in Tacoma, Washington, and up the South Tacoma hill to get around a problem on the Point Defiance line, on January 22, 1967. Photo by J.M. Fredrickson. Other Subject Classes: diesel locomotive, freight train, helper locomotive.

Two GP9s, Northern Pacific 246 and 231 help a rerouted extra freight train across Pacific Avenue in Tacoma, Washington, on January 22, 1967. The train is using the South Tacoma hill to get around a problem on the Point Defiance line. Photo by J.M. Fredrickson. Other Subject Classes: diesel locomotive, freight train, helper locomotive.

Northern Pacific 250, a GP9, leads the eastbound Mobase Local on the approach to drawbridge 39 on the way to the South Tacoma hill on the 4th subdivision Prairie Line in Tacoma, Washington, on February 10, 1970. Photo by J.M. Fredrickson. Other Subject Classes: diesel locomotive, freight train, trestle bridge.

Northern Pacific 250, a GP9, leads the eastbound Mobase Local on the bridge over the mainline at 15th Street on the way to the South Tacoma hill on the 4th subdivision Prairie Line in Tacoma, Washington, on February 10, 1970. Photo by J.M. Fredrickson. Other Subject Classes: diesel locomotive, freight train, trestle bridge.

Northern Pacific 250, a GP9, leads the eastbound Mobase Local over drawbridge 39 on the way to the South Tacoma hill on the 4th subdivision Prairie Line in Tacoma, Washington, on February 10, 1970. Photo by J.M. Fredrickson. Other Subject Classes: diesel locomotive, freight train, trestle bridge.

Northern Pacific 255, a GP9 diesel, leads the Morning Star, the Portland to Seattle connection with the Southern Pacific west coast freight traffic westbound (railroad) between Ruston and McCarver Street in Tacoma, Washington, in May 1968. Photo by J.M. Fredrickson. Other Subject Classes: diesel locomotive, freight train.

Four diesel units lead by GP9 Northern Pacific 284 lead a rerouted extra freight train across Pacific Avenue in Tacoma, Washington, on January 22, 1967. The train is using the South Tacoma hill line due to a closure on the Point Defiance line. Photo by J.M. Fredrickson. Other Subject Classes: diesel locomotive, freight train, grade crossing.

The engineer of the Portland Time Freight, X335E, is the last train to pick orders at McCarver Street in Tacoma, Washington, on the last day of the station's operation on April 06, 1962. Duties were transferred to UP Junction after this point. Photo by J.M. Fredrickson. Other Subject Classes: diesel locomotive, freight train, telegraph station.

The caboose crew of the Northern Pacific Portland time freight X335E picks up orders at the McCarver Street telegraph depot near Tacoma, Washington, on April 06, 1962. Great Northern FA number 301 is about to pass the depot on the other track. Photo by J.M. Fredrickson. Other Subject Classes: wood caboose, telegraph station, diesel locomotive.

Northern Pacific 3623, an SD-45 diesel, leads eastbound detoured time freight number 606 by the Top Of The Ocean restaurant near the McCarver Street depot in Tacoma, Washington, in 1969. Photo by J.M. Fredrickson. Other Subject Classes: diesel locomotive, freight train.