Western Railroad Discussion > A Sparse Traffic Day

It was a breezy cool cloudy day in Ritzville, WA on the BNSF Lakeside Sub with some drips. The high-low was 50/39 and .38 of rain over night. Traffic was sparse with only three trains between 730am to 301pm. One of the trains was a Herzog ballast work train full of rock. There are trains rolling EB towards Ritzville. Might be able to catch a couple of them. With no traffic makes an easy day for me, lol. Lots of MoW work going on these days. Flood gate are opening up now that it's past 400pm.

1. WB 1236pm Herzog ballast work train with BNSF 4943-H1 993-3984 on the point.
2. WB 301pm "Q" train with BNSF 4943-H1 993-3984 on the pull with a friendly toot-toot from the hogger.
3. EB 334pm "Z" train with BNSF 7129 on the very point at Bauman Rd., Ritzville.

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4. The End of same train fading away towards CP W. Tokio.
5. EB 415pm "Q" train with BNSF 8248-9839-6890 on the pull.
6. Another shot of BNSF 70MAC 9839 on same train.

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7. The End of same train.
8. WB 432pm coal train with BNSF 6945 on the very point with DPU and a friendly wave from the hogger.
9. DPU BNSF 8947 on same train.

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10. WB 445pm grain train with BNSF 6507-H1 1072 on the pull with DPU and a friendly toot-toot from the hogger.
11. DPU BNSF 4898 on same train.
12. EB 517pm grain train with BNSF 9246-7804 on the point with DPU's and a friendly toot-toot from the hogger.

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13. DPU's BNSF 7641-8544 on same train.


That's it for today. Hope everyone has a great evening and tomorrow. Thank you so much for looking!

Larry

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Nice series of photos Larry.

Ronda Thomas

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You bagged quite a few tier 4's today Larry. I didn't see very many on my trip out there.
Bill