Western Railroad Discussion > A Cold Busy Wednesday On The BNSF

It was a Cold breezy drippy day in Ritzville, WA on the BNSF Lakeside Sub with a high-low of 43-33 and .15 of rain. Traffic started to get busy after 11am. Here are some of the trains that passed by. The work train moved out of the backyard to the East end of town.

1. WB 1119am "Z" train with BNSF 3899-5188-4870-6793-7960 on the point.
2. Newly shopped 70 MAC looking good on EB 1137am "Z" train.
3. EB 1149pm Herzog work train passing thru the area and continuing EB.

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4. EB 1226pm grain train with BNSF 6085-9075 and CREX 1214 on the pull.
5. Another shot of CREX 1214 on same train.
6. Another shot of same train.

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7. A clipped power shot of EB 1238pm coal train with BNSF 8777-9337 and green and cream BNSF 9791 with DPU.
8. Another shot of same train.
9. DPU BNSF 70MAC 8824 on same train.

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10. EB 1252pm stack train with BNSF 6931-8114-4293 on the pull with DPU's and a friendly wave from the hogger.
11. DPU's on same train fading away by old NP Ritzville Depot.
12. EB 105pm grain train with BNSF 4054-8350-4449 on the point. Wish it was SP 4449, lol.

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13. WB 207pm coal train with BNSF green and cream 9687-9760 and BNSF 9326 on the pull with DPU at Bauman Rd., Ritzville and friendly waves from the crew. My most interesting train of the day.
14. Another shot of same train.
15. Final head-end shot of same train.

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16. DPU BNSF green and cream 9620 on same coal train fading away towards downtown Ritzville.
17. MoW work train sitting on East yard track in Ritzville with BNSF 3932 on the point. Train is waiting for a crew to arrive and take it away EB.
18. WB 233pm coal train with BNSF 5743-6424 and CREX 1301 on the pull with DPU and a friendly toot-toot and wave from the hogger.
 

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19. Another shot of same coal train.
20. EB 326pm garbage train with BNSF 3907? on the very point.
21. Pan shot of green and cream 9785 on WB 347pm oil train.

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22. A pan shot of Warbonnet 723 on WB 404pm oil train. Tried pan shots in the bad light.


That's it for this last day of November. Hope everyone has a great evening and tomorrow. Thank you so much for looking!

Larry

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Unfortunately I think you missed the most interesting train of the day that I saw. There was a eastbound Q-PTLCHC with a orange GE leading another freshly rebuilt and repainted SD70MAC and two CSXT locomotives. It went through Cheney at 10:30am.

Ted Curphey
Ontario, OR

Probably went thru Ritzville early in the morning before I was up. I slept in this morning, lol.

Larry

Nice ones today. #13 and #17 are great catches.
Brian Stevens

I like that MOW train....

I'm glad to see those 70MACs running too.