Western Railroad Discussion > Almost Caught Up On The BNSF Along With A Problem At Templins

I was a dark dreary drippy day in Ritzville, WA on the BNSF Lakeside Sub. The High-low was 47-32 and .05 of drippings. Traffic was fairly steady with 32 train since midnight.  Here are some of the trains from today and yesterday, plus the switch out at Templin wheat circle. Almost caught up for the week.

117/ 2019

1. EB 1017am ballast train with BNSF 43?? on the point with DPU's. 
2. DPU's BNSF 3152-2735-4230 on same train.
3. MoW equipment heading for the loading cars on the East Yard lead.

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4. WB 1040am garbage/manifest train with BNSF 7987-6979-4084 on the pull with no DPU and a friendly toot-toot from the hogger.
5. Old CNW green hopper rolling in same train.
6. WB 1052am oil train with BNSF 7878-7135 on the point with DPU. Off to Spokane for the rest of the day.

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11/8/2019

7. WB 1104am coal train with BNSF 8227-8431-6124 on the pull with DPU.
8. WB 1136am intermodal train with BNSF 7950-7313-6951 on the point with no DPU and a friendly toot-toot-wave from the hogger.
9. Mechanics working hard at 115pm on equipment in the backyard.

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10. EB 117pm "Z" train with BNSF 8365, Warbonnet 625 and BNSF 5505-7534 on the point.
11. Another shot of Warbonnet 625 on same train.
12. WB 135pm coal train with BNSF 5963-6226-8891 on the pull with DPU.

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13. Another shot of 70MAC 8891 on same train.
14. DPU BNSF 9363 on same train.
15. WB 344pm Loram switch grinder briskly rolling thru the backyard.

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16. EB 404pm empty coal train with BNSF 9254, green and cream 9519 and BNSF 9350 on the point with DPU.

11/9/2019

17. Repaired, heading for work train on East yard lead at 920am in the drips.
18. WB 932am coal train with BNSF 8544-8818-7606 on the pull with DPU.

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I was informed by TO member SP8100 and his friend Harley that there was a problem at Templin Wheat Circle. The train that was loaded in the circle only had East facing power and needed a West facing unit to pull out WB. Well, the next EB empty grain train was elected to give up a West facing unit. So the pictures 19 thru 28 is a look at the operation.

19. At 1020am EB grain train with BNSF 7627 on the very point has arrived and is cutting off from his train. Circle grain train power in the background with no DPU.
20. Power cut off EB grain train depositing West facing unit BNSF 4263 into entrance to circle.
21. BNSF 7627 heading bsck to mainline at 1052am



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 11/09/19 22:16 by Ritzville.

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22. Rear end of circle grain train in need of West facing unit.
23. BNSF 7627 heading back to main at 1059am.
24. BNSF 7627 coupled back onto train at 1105am.

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25. BNSF 7627 slowly taking off EB at 1117am as a 1x1 and a friendly toot-toot and wave from the hogger.
26. BNSF 486315 NP Heritage Hopper rolling in same train with serious graffiti. Those cars sure looked nice when they were clean.
27. Same train on its way thru CP W. Tokio in the rain.

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28. DPU BNSF 6334 on same train fading away at 1122am. Operation started before I arrived and took about 90 minutes.

That's it for this drippy day. Hope everyone had a great weekend and thank you so much for looking!

Larry
Ritzville, WA

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Thank you for the sequence of photos and at Templin..
I agree.. Too bad that NP legacy hopper has such graffiti.. So ugly!

Larry, in pic 25, what is that big CAT dozer gunna do!?
CM80.46

CM80-46 Wrote:
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> Larry, in pic 25, what is that big CAT dozer gunna
> do!?
> CM80.46

Not sure what MoW is doing there. They have been working up and down the line with piles of ballast for a couple of months.

Larry

Thanks for the bonus coverage Larry.

BB

Well that explains the 1x1 grain empty with the NP car second out that I saw this afternoon.
 

Ted Curphey
Ontario, OR

Thanks everyone!

Larry