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Western Railroad Discussion > Western Washington RailroadDate: 10/29/14 11:14 Western Washington Railroad Author: loleta A new shortline (http://www.wwrailroad.com) operates Tacoma Rail Mountain Division trackage from Maytown to Chehalis, using this little black switch engine. They do some transload business but seem mostly to be involved in car storage. All three photos were taken near Blakeslee Jct. in Centralia. The crew picked up a few stored tank cars then brought them down to the junction, where they waited for a PSAP grain train to clear before heading down to the BNSF yard. It's great to see something moving again on these old Milwaukee Road rails.
Loleta Fernbridge Date: 10/29/14 11:18 Re: Western Washington Railroad Author: CCT41 Need to take up donations to buy them some Milwaukee Road range paint !!!
Date: 10/29/14 12:34 Re: Western Washington Railroad Author: truxtrax Curious to know who's putting the money into this operation?
With the company address and phone# in Aloha OR. it's a mystery whose involved. Anybody know the particulars? Larry Dodgion Wilsonville, OR Date: 10/29/14 13:10 Re: Western Washington Railroad Author: WSOR506 Are they not required to have ditch lights??
Date: 10/29/14 13:30 Re: Western Washington Railroad Author: bwyrick WSOR506 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Are they not required to have ditch lights?? FRA only requires ditch lights for traversing grade crossings at 20MPH+, and are otherwise (the way I've come to understand it) unnecessary. Date: 10/29/14 15:38 Re: Western Washington Railroad Author: oklachaser Really nice photos.
Ronda Thomas Date: 10/29/14 20:25 Re: Western Washington Railroad Author: JDLX As of when I rode the Chehalis-Centralia towards the end of July this past year, Western Washington was also running weekday freight operations over the line they use, specifically to serve the pole yard at Curtis. Chehalis-Centralia and the Western Washington had implemented an interesting system of locked derails to protect each other...there was a derail mounted on the mainline just east of the I-5 overpass, and a second one on the lead into the C-C shop. On weekends C-C would close and lock the derail on the mainline, and then weekdays that would be unlocked and the derail into the C-C shop would be locked.
Jeff Moore Elko, NV Date: 10/30/14 06:24 Re: Western Washington Railroad Author: ns1000 I like Pic 3!!!
Date: 10/30/14 21:55 Re: Western Washington Railroad Author: Vic_Guy Great photos Loleta, I'll have to put this one on my list of things to see next time I'm in the area.
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