Western Railroad Discussion > A Hot One On The Northern Transcon

It was a Hot day in Ritzville, WA on the BNSF Lakeside Sub with a high-low of 96/58. I know lol, this would be a cool day in the California-Arizona desert. Traffic was light in the morning due to track work and picked up in the afternoon. Here are some of the trains from today and yesterday.

7/25/2017

1. EB 440pm manifest train with BNSF Orange on the point of 7 units.
2. NS 8861 in the head-end mix of same train.
3. BNSF H1 990 also in the head-end mix of same train.

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4. WB 503pm garbage/mix train with BNSF 5433-5284-3861 on the pull.
5. WB 536pm oil train with BNSF 5422 and CSX 56 on the point with DPU's.
6. Another shot of CSX 56 on same train.

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7. DPU's CREX 1335 and BNSF 4435 on same oil train.

7/26/2017

8. WB 1101am oil train with BNSF 8361-7719-6348 on the pull with DPU.
9. EB 1224pm "Z" train with BNSF Orange Blast on the point.

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10. EB 230pm empty coal train with BNSF 6021-4634-5774 on the pull with DPU.
11. DPU BNSF 7218 on same train.
12. WB 259pm coal train with BNSF 9289-6063-6909 on the point with DPU.

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13. DPU BNSF 5656 on same train.
14. EB 324pm garbage/manifest train with BNSF 5283-8354 on the pull.
15. WB 403pm auto train with BNSF 4432-6132 on the point with a friendly toot-toot and wave from the hogger.

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16. WB 422pm oil train with BNSF 8356-5518-6936 on the pull with DPU and a friendly toot-toot from the hogger.


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

Larry

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Hot or not....some neat consists
Brian