Western Railroad Discussion > Warm with Thunderstorm and Work Window

Today started out warm in Ritzville, WA on the BNSF Lakeside Sub at 83 degrees. Then in the afternoon a windy thunderstorm with lots of lightning and thunder sending the temperature from 83 to 64 degrees in about 20 minutes. With there being a work window from 0800 to 1400, there was only one train and that was late #27 Empire Builder. After 1400hrs and after the thunderstorm hit lightning must of hit the signal system, trains were only running at 20mph restricted speed. That has now been cleared up. Here are some of today's trains.

1.WB 1124am #27 Empire Builder with 61 on the point about 6hrs late.
2. 61 thru the trees.
3. 306pm thunderstorm rolling into Ritzville, WA.

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4. EB 310pm coal train with BNSF 6366-8056-5962 on the pull with DPU.
5. Another shot of same train at beginning of Thunderstorm.
6. DPU 5884 on same coal train.

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7. EB 327pm grain train with BNSF 4457-6524-8897 on the point with DPU.
8. Another shot of same train.
9. DPU BNSF 7400 on same grain train.

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10. EB 352pm intermodal "Q" train with BNSF 4193 and warbonnet 934 on the point rolling at 20 mph.
11. EB 416pm grain train with BNSF 6735-4371 on the pull with DPU.
12. Another shot of same train heading into a black sky.

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13. WB 445pm manifest train with BNSF 7210-7894-"B" 336-"B" 346 and green BN 3143 on the heavy pull. Train sneaked up on me. Thanks Ted for the early heads-up.
14. Another shot of "B" units and green BN unit.

That's it for now, but you never know.

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SEnd some that rain to So. Cal...We need it!

the_expediter Wrote:
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> SEnd some that rain to So. Cal...We need it!


Unfortunately, we got more lightning and thunder and 45-50mph winds than we did rain with only .06 of an inch. Spokane and points north got hit really hard with hail, heavy rain and 67mph winds, knocking down many trees on top of houses and cars. We lucked out here with no damage.

Larry

Hmmm... a pink tie crane. curious.

steeplecab Wrote:
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> Hmmm... a pink tie crane. curious.


There is also a larger pink crane parked up track to go with it, lol.

Ritzville, now all you need is to get a video mounted on your porch like the Dunsmuir cam, seems you have a great spot there!

Mark

dieselman Wrote:
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> Ritzville, now all you need is to get a video
> mounted on your porch like the Dunsmuir cam, seems
> you have a great spot there!
>
> Mark


Maybe someday in the future.