Western Railroad Discussion > A Smorgasbord of Weather Today On The BNSF

Today's weather was a little of everything in Ritzville, WA on the BNSF Lakeside Sub with wind being the major factor. When I woke up this morning, visibility was down to zero with blowing dust and smoke with 40mph winds. It was also cloudy with rain drips at times. Then the dust cleared up by noon, then the clouds cleared, wind settled down for about two hours. Now the dust is blowing again with strong wind and possible rain tomorrow. The high-low so far is 79-67. Keeping my fingers crossed for rain. It was hard to take pictures in the flying dust, tried to filter out the dust in the pictures. Here are some of the trains that passed the backyard last evening and today. Traffic is so-so today, not overly busy.

1. CREX 1317 in the mix of EB yesterday's 526pm manifest train.
2.  A quick shot of EB 937am manifest train with NS 9662-8836-8757 on the point with nice sounding 5-chime.
3. EB 953am manifest train with BNSF 7306-9207-1116 on the pull.

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4. WB 1106am grain train with BNSF 7306-9207-1116 on the point with DPU in dust.
5. DPU BNSF 8012 pushing same train in flying dust.
6. EB 1245pm manifest train with BNSF 8071-4523-7650 on the pull with a friendly toot-toot from the hogger.

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7. Old GN wood chip car with Billygoat still showing on the side of the car rolling in same train.
8. Older hopper from Lewis Grain Co. rolling in same train. Wonder if Lewis Grain Co, is still in business?
9. EB 103pm manifest train with BNSF 7246, CP 9595, BNSF 7808-4832 and red JLCX 2686 on the point.

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10. Another shot of CP 9595 on same train.
11. Another shot of red JLCX 2686.
12. EB 143pm coal train with BNSF 8867-6223-9952 on the point with DPU.

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13. DPU CREX 1422 on same coal train.
14. EB 240pm intermodal/TOFC train with BNSF 4850, NS 9393 and green and cream 9426 on the pull with DPU at Bauman Rd. and a friendly wave from the hogger. Hard to take pictures with wind and dust at Bauman Rd.
15. Another power shot of same train.

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16. DPU BNSF 6911 on same train fading away towards dusty CP W. Tokio.
17. A quick power shot of WB 417pm manifest train with BNSF 5240, CREX 1435 and BNSF 4887. I filtered out most of the blowing dust.

This may be it for this windy, dusty day! Hope everyone is having a great weekend and thanks so much for looking!

Larry

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Nice catch on the all NS consist:}

Great series, good mix of trains, all NS engines in particular, Great Northern and Citirail.
Alan