North Portal, Seattle. BNSF, Cascades, Empire Builder, and Gossip! 4K

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What could be more fun on a cold Sunday morning than going to the Seattle waterfront to railfan! The action in this video took place in a little over an hour’s time.
The North Portal is located on the waterfront at the north end of downtown Seattle and runs beneath downtown Seattle. The tunnel was built in the very early 20th Century and is used by BNSF freight trains, Amtrak passenger trains, and Sound Transit Commuter Rail.
BNSF 2669 is a rebuilt EMD GP39-3 built in 1965 for ATSF. It leads two other engines working a string of grain cars for the Louis Dreyfus Grain Elevator.
Amtrak 7, the Westbound Empire Builder is led by Amtrak 180.
Listening to the scanner can always be interesting. Make sure you listen to Train Gossip!
BNSF 6058, a GE ES44AC built in 2006, leads a unit train of coking coal to the Roberts Bank coal terminal near Delta, British Columbia, Canada. These unit trains are common along the Seattle water front and are a source of controversy. Oil unit trains are also common and this past weekend 52 people were arrested for trespassing on the Anacortes Spur while protesting the oil trains that traverse the Swinomish tribal lands.
Coast Guard Cutter 726, the Midgett, was named after Chief Warrant Officer John Allen MIDGETT, Jr., born in 1876 in Rodanthe, North Carolina and served for nearly forty years with the U.S. Lifesaving Service and the Coast Guard.
USCGC MIDGETT is the twelfth and last of the Coast Guard's fleet of 378-foot High Endurance Cutters. She is the third in her class (HERO) to be named for outstanding Coast Guardsmen. Coast Guard Cutter Midgett keel was laid 05 April 1971 at the Avondale Shipyards in New Orleans, Louisiana and she was launched on 04 September 1971. She was then commissioned on 17 March 1972. She was decommissioned and placed in Fleet Renovation and Maintenance (FRAM) on 07 January 1991 and was placed in "In Commission Special" status as of 25 April 1992. MIDGETT was fully re-commissioned in February 1993.
USCGC MIDGETT is a multipurpose ship, designed to meet the many and varied missions of today's Coast Guard. Her responsibilities include Homeland Security, Search and Rescue, Maritime Law Enforcement, and Alien Migrant Interdiction Operations as well as maintaining military readiness in support of our NATO allies and the U.S. Navy. One of ten high endurance cutters on the west coast, her normal patrol areas include the Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska and Central American waters, enforcing the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act (200 mile limit) and drug interdiction laws. MIDGETT, with a crew of 24 officers and 160 enlisted men and women, is homeported in Seattle, WA and is under the operational and administrative control of Commander, Pacific Area (COMPACAREA).
BNSF 3917, a recently built "Tier IV" ET44C4, leads BNSF 8062 and BNSF 6501 also ET44C4’s.
Amtrak 513 has an approach limited signal at the North Portal. This Cascades unit is the Mt. Rainier, led by non-powered control unit 90251 and pushed by Amtrak 14, a GE P42DC, built in 1996.