Seattle City Light #6

tomgears · **Posted:** Thu Apr 22, 2010 1:35 pm

This came through on my Flickr feed. She looks amazing for being an outdoor display locomotive. I think she was in tourist service at one time?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/electric_c ... 542057835/

Richard W. · **Joined:** Tue Nov 09, 2004 12:27 pm **Posts:** 157

#6 is in Newhalem which is a Seattle City Light company town on Highway 20. It did run between Sedro Wooley and Concrete in the late 70's early 80's?. Never did get around to riding it.

Richard Wilkens

Chris Salmonson · **Posted:** Thu Apr 22, 2010 6:15 pm

Pretty locomotive!
Was somebody trying to remove the numberplate?

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=newhalem,+wa&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=59.639182,97.734375&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Newhalem&ll=48.673677,-121.247048&spn=0.012342,0.023861&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=48.673768,-121.246685&panoid=pGjqX8LxoYwmOsFvt3IFog&cbp=12,166.24,,0,10.99

gcrr · **Posted:** Thu Apr 22, 2010 9:31 pm

Here's a link to a topic about this locomotive that I started last year:
http://server.rypn.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=26885&p=121500#p121500

One things for sure, she is a nice looking locomotive.

Matt

weekendrailroader · **Joined:** Wed Mar 31, 2010 12:02 am **Posts:** 293

Despite being non-operational, #6 is my personal favorite among steam locomotives. A photo of her can be found in the PC game "Rails Across America". She is definitely a beautiful locomotive, and I would love to see her run (perhaps at Snoqualmie, one day?)

Chris Salmonson · **Posted:** Tue May 04, 2010 3:53 pm

Here's a picture of #6 from 1938.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seattlemunicipalarchives/3250982839/

Richard W. · **Joined:** Tue Nov 09, 2004 12:27 pm **Posts:** 157

If larger gas or diesel locomotives were more common at the time #6 was built it might never have been built. J.D. Ross who was Seattle City Light Superintendent at the time the Skagit River dam's were started was a big proponent of using internal combustion. The line started using large speeders and a converted truck. It wasn't until the second dam, Diablo, was started that larger motive power was needed. In 1939 a center cab diesel was built by Skagit Steel in Sedro Wooley, WA using the trucks from Portland Traction electric locomotive 1403.

Overall this was a very interesting railroad.

Richard Wilkens

Chris Salmonson · **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2011 7:39 pm

Seattle Municipal Archives recently posted another picture of this locomotive.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seattlemunicipalarchives/5404694737/

softwerkslex · **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2011 11:46 pm

Never ceases to amaze me. I mean, what are the thermal properties of a locomotive boiler covered in a layer of snow?