Two unit Class Z-1 Motors headed by 5006 at Scenic.
Class Y-1 at Skykomish, looks like 5017
Rare Color Photo of four (count them, FOUR!) Class Z-1 Motors at Cashmere Washington
Oooh, powered box cars 
Bite your tongue, infidel. Never mind. I see that you already did. 
What? They are powered. They are boxy. And the structure is sometimes referred to as a “car body”. So, they are powered box cars.
I’ll take electrics, elks, motors, juice jacks, whatever you want to call them, any day over steam and diesel. Yes, even a boxcar with a motor.
David Maynard said:
What? They are powered. They are boxy. And the structure is sometimes referred to as a “car body”. So, they are powered box cars.
I know there is an insult in there somewheres . Infidel.
he he he he.
I’ll take one of these GNs over that “juice box” any day.
How many axles does that sucker have? It all looks confusing to me
I count 12, but I have been wrong before.
I believe 12 axles, Randy. (six trucks.) It’s a “Y” class, built at the Hillyard, Wa. shops using a couple F units.
Ummmm jb, that is a “juice box,” that is GN 5018
http://www.gngoat.org/gn5018.jpg
My tablet won’t use the image posting function.
They are W class loco’s Only 2 were built by G.E for Great Northern and were used on the Cascade section until the Catenary was pulled down. One was scrapped and the other was sold to U.P for scrap value. All Axles were powered. What the U.P did to the one they purchased is another story.
Grant Kerr said:
They are W class loco’s Only 2 were built by G.E for Great Northern and were used on the Cascade section until the Catenary was pulled down. One was scrapped and the other was sold to U.P for scrap value. All Axles were powered. What the U.P did to the one they purchased is another story.
Would you mind telling that story, Grant?
This is 5011, the Y Class locomotive that jb was referring to that was rebuilt using the cabs of two wrecked F 3 locomotives.
Dan, I would, but not on this thread.
Steve Featherkile said:
This is 5011, the Y Class locomotive that jb was referring to that was rebuilt using the cabs of two wrecked F 3 locomotives.
I wonder what that protrusion is on the hood?
Yesterday morning at breakfast I switched on a tv to hear the news The tv automatically opened on a channel watched the previous day.
I heard about a museum in Seattle, saw a few pics and then the artefacts being shewn were linked to the disaster on the GN featuring the locos in the initial posts here. From what I have heard the Cascades are have always been troublesome for railroads.
http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_Id=5127
Dan Padova said:
Grant Kerr said:
They are W class loco’s Only 2 were built by G.E for Great Northern and were used on the Cascade section until the Catenary was pulled down. One was scrapped and the other was sold to U.P for scrap value. All Axles were powered. What the U.P did to the one they purchased is another story.
Would you mind telling that story, Grant?
Dan, Uncle Pete uses the trucks and cab body in a failed experiment on gas turbine technology.
Alan Lott said:
Yesterday morning at breakfast I switched on a tv to hear the news The tv automatically opened on a channel watched the previous day.
I heard about a museum in Seattle, saw a few pics and then the artefacts being shewn were linked to the disaster on the GN featuring the locos in the initial posts here. From what I have heard the Cascades are have always been troublesome for railroads.
http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_Id=5127
The combination of heavy, wet snow, and no trees, caused by fire and unfettered logging for ties and fuel caused that avalanche. In 1929, the present, lower and much longer tunnel was completed.