On Saturday 7-7-79 I made a drive to Wenatchee, WA to catch some BN on the former Great Northern main line.  First thing photographed was BN GP7 1538.  The 1538 is former Great Northern 638 and was working Wenatchee as a yard switcher.

At 08:14 AM train #130 departed Appleyard east of Wenatchee with units 6621/2212/1533  (F45/GP30/GP7) headed east towards Spokane and seen here just east of Malaga, WA.

Back at Wenatchee I got some roster shots around Wenatchee’s engine facility.  Here are BN GP9′s 1806/1855, likely laying over from local service for the weekend..

The 1806 is former GN 733.  It was in GN’s simplified orange and green at the time of the BN 1970 merger.  Note the boxy wheel journal covers on the front truck.  My understanding is that older GN FT locomotives were retired and traded into EMD on this order of GN GP9′s.  The FT trucks were rebuilt and reused on the new GP9′s.

BN 1855 is former Northern Pacific 229.

On the caboose track I found a couple of former GN cabooses.  BN 10250 is ex-GN X55.

And BN 10254 is ex-GN X59.

From what I have researched, both the 10250 and 10254 were wearing GN red at the time of the BN merger, neither received Big Sky Blue paint.

At this point I started west towards home in Renton, WA.  It seems that there were no westbounds to follow west over Stevens Pass out of Wenatchee that afternoon.