Vancouver’s BNSF railyard has a venerable visitor for the next few days: a working steam locomotive.
The Southern Pacific 4449 arrived at midday Monday for a few days of video production work, which will see it running periodically through the Columbia River Gorge to Wishram, a railroad town about 100 miles east of Vancouver.
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