Western Railroad Discussion > A Beautiful Spring Day On The Northern Transcon

It was a warm sunny Spring day in Ritzville, WA on the BNSF Lakeside Sub. with a high-low of 63/33. Traffic in the morning was in a three hour plus lull while all the MoW army and equipment arrived in the backyard. Looks like a big project on the horizon. Here are some of the trains from today plus a look back at the last couple of days.

4/17/2018

1. WB 416pm coal train with BNSF 4091-8994 and green and cream 9631 on the point with DPU and a friendly toot-toot from the hogger.
2. Another look at green and cream 9631 on same train.
3. DPU BNSF H1 1069 on same train.

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4. WB 446pm grain or soybean train with BNSF 9064-8364 on the pull with DPU's.
5. EB 706pm garbage/manifest train with BNSF 8133-H1 1062 on the point.

4/18/2018

6. WB 957am grain train with BNSF 8503 and Warbonnet 710 on the point with DPU.

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7. Another shot of Warbonnet 710 on same train.
8. WB 1051am grain train with BNSF 7895, CSXT 5442 and BNSF 3771 on the pull.
9. Another shot of CSXT 5442 on same train.

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4/19/2018

10. Mow pow-wow in the backyard discussing up coming project.
11. MoW army arriving in the backyard.
12. MoW equipment maneuvering thru Ritzville Yard. Fianally parking in my backyard.

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13. WB 1205pm "Z" train with BNSF 7921, CSXT 839 and BNSF 9117-9057 on the point with a friendly toot-toot from the hogger.
14. Another shot of CSXT 839 on same train.
15. WB 1224pm manifest train with BNSF 7644, GECX(ex-CSXT) 7927 and BNSF 3872-4156 on the pull.

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16. Another shot of GECX 7927 on same train.
17. Older SCL/LN hopper rolling in same train.
18. WB 156pm manifest train with BNSF 7064-8889 on the pull, no DPU at Bauman Rd., Ritzville.

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19. The End of same train fading away towards downtown Ritzville.
20. BNSF 7460, UP 3791 and BNSF 5482 sitting in Templin grain circle at Ritzville.
21. BNSF 4129-H1 986 the power for MoW work train sitting on the East End of Ritzville.

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22. WB 356pm auto train with BNSF 9135-9357 on the point.


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

Larry

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Orange-vest-o-rama!

TJY

Doesn't look like you caught any of mine from yesterday.. Great pics Larry

Ed

Nice images. You have quite a few trains per day single track--I imagine the track gets hammered pretty good--fortunate you can get so much MofW work and still get so many trains each day.
Brian Stevens