Western Railroad Discussion > A Nice Fall Day In The Upper Columbia Basin On The BNSF

It was a beautiful day in Ritzville, WA on the BNSF Lakeside Sub in the upper Columbia Basin with a high-low of 76-49. Traffic was fairly steady today. After 6 oil trains yesterday, haven't seen one today sofar. Here are some of the trains that rolled by today.

1. WB 1039am coal train with BNSF 6137, CREX 1407 and BNSF 9034 on the pull with DPU.
2. WB 1114am coal train with BNSF 6093-9321-8844 on the pull with DPU and a friendly toot-toot from the hogger.
3. Another shot of BNSF 8844 on same train.

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4. DPU BNSF 8559 on same coal train fading away.
5. EB 1147am manifest train with BNSF 8135 on the very point at Bauman Rd., Ritzville.
6. The End of same train faduing away towards CP W. Tokio.

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7. WB 1159am manifest train with BNSF8454 on the very point with DPU at Bauman Rd.
8. Older unit NS 5082 in the head-end mix of same train.
9. DPU BNSF 5091 fading away in the dust towards downtown Ritzville.

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10. EB 1230pm "Z" train with BNSF 6552 on the very point.
11. The End of same train fading away by old NP Ritzville Depot.
12. WB 1039am coal train with BNSF 6137, CREX 1407 and BNSF 9034 on the pull with DPU's and a friendly toot-toot from the hogger.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/25/16 16:45 by Ritzville.

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13. WB 143pm grain train with BNSF 5214-8325 on the pull with DPU.
14. EB 214pm manifest train with BNSF 8165 on the very point of 6 units passing old Ritzville Depot.
15. A going away shot of 6 unit power on same train.

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16. EB 402pm grain train with BNSF 7022-8947-4249 on the pull, no DPU.
17. WB 456pm grain train with BNSF 5271-606 on the point with DPU's.

That may be it for today! Hope everyone had a great weekend and thank you so much for looking!

Larry

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Nice shots today.  Many thanks to NS for keeping us in high-nose geeps for so many years.
Brian Stevens

A high nose geep in the west, nice catch!

Another nice series of photos Larry.

Ronda Thomas

Thanks everyone!

Larry

Coalca Wrote:
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> A high nose geep in the west, nice catch!

AGREED....!!

​I believe that HH was one of the ones that was sold at auction recently. I wonder if it has a new owner..... 

I'm not sure. I'm hoping it will return EB in daylight.

Larry

NS 5082 was recently sold to Frontier Rail,   where ever that is at.

rhmich Wrote:
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> NS 5082 was recently sold to Frontier Rail,  
> where ever that is at.

Thanks for that information on NS 5082.

Larry

Nice the NS geep. YOu are lucky to find it running nearby

Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,
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