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| Title: |
Mother and Daughter Watching Amtrak Train in Seattle, Washington (editor's title) |
| Creator: |
Weismann-Yee, Kyle
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Description:
A mother and daughter watching a southbound Amtrak Cascasdes passenger train in Seattle, Washington. They are standing on a pedestrian walkway at Safeco Field, home of the Seattle Mariners professional baseball team. King Street Station, Seattle's rail passenger hub, is located 1/2-mile north of Safeco Field. The Amtrak Cascasdes service is a regional corridor between Vancouver, BC, and Eugene, OR, utilizing articulated, tilting trainsets built by Talgo, a Spanish company. The service began in 1993 between Seattle and Portland, and now offers five daily round trips between those cities, with two round trips daily to each extremity. The states of Washington and Oregon provide funding, and plan to add additional trains and increase maximum speed from 79 to 110 mph. |
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| Classification: |
Stations and Passengers
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| Date Created: |
2006-07-22 |
| Resource Type: |
Image (DCMI Type Vocabulary)
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| Format: |
Digital
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| Rights: |
Kyle Weismann-Yee |
| Coverage: |
Spatial, Safeco Field, Seattle, Washington; Temporal, July 22, 2006 |
| Extent: |
10.1 megapixels RAW file |
| Source: |
Kyle Weismann-Yee, Portland, Oregon |
| Url: |
http://www.pbase.com/kentonline/ |
| Depicted Railroad: |
BNSF Railway
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| Location: |
Seattle, Washington |
| Train Type: |
Passenger Train |
| Equipment, Locomotive: |
F59PHI no. 461 |
| Builder, locomotive: |
Electro-Motive Division, General Motors |
| Builder, Cars: |
Talgo |
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Creator Description:
Kyle Weismann-Yee grew up in Portland, Oregon, but took his first railroad photos while visiting Japan as a middle school student. He undertook photography more seriously upon graduation from high school in 2004, and he has gravitated towards overlooked railroad operations throughout the northwest, particularly shortlines, branchlines, and industrial switching districts. In 2008, he graduated from the University of Oregon with a degree in ethnic studies, a field he hopes to pursue in the nonprofit sector. |
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| Collection: |
Kyle Weismann-Yee Collection |
| Train Name: |
Cascades |
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