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Western Railroad Discussion > Catching up with The Week On The BNSF Northern TransconDate: 02/27/21 15:17 Catching up with The Week On The BNSF Northern Transcon Author: Ritzville It was a breezy(20-25mph) sunny day in Ritzville, WA on the BNSF Lakeside Sub. The high-low was 44-28. Been an up and down weather week Traffic is at 27 trains since midnight with more on the way. Here are some trains from today and the last few days.
2/24/2021 1. EB 258pm manifest train with BNSF 7941-H1 1014 on the point with no DPU. 2. WB 409pm stack train with BNSF 6195-7102 on the pull with DPU and a friendly wave from the hogger. 3. DPU BNSF 5195 on same train.    Date: 02/27/21 15:22 Re: Catching up with The Week On The BNSF Northern Transcon Author: Ritzville 2/25/2021
4. Woke up and looked out at the backyard with 3/4 inch of new snow. Snow was melted by 1130am with mid 40's temps with wind. 5. WB 952am grain train with BNSF 3873-7487 on the point with DPU. 6. EB 1025am empty oil train with BNSF 4626-282 on the pull with DPU.    Date: 02/27/21 15:25 Re: Catching up with The Week On The BNSF Northern Transcon Author: Ritzville 7. DPU CN 2315 on same train.
8. BNSF 486059 Santa Fe Heritage Hoper rolling in WB 1045am grain train. 2/26/2021 9. WB 1036m grain train with BNSF 8056-8002 on the pull with DPU and a friendly toot-toot from the hogger.    Date: 02/27/21 15:30 Re: Catching up with The Week On The BNSF Northern Transcon Author: Ritzville 10. WB 101pm grain train with BNSF 4125-5462 on the point with DPU.
2/27/2021 11. EB 901am grain train with BNSF 5136-4598 on the pull with DPU. 12. DPU BNSF 5154 on same train    Date: 02/27/21 15:41 Re: Catching up with The Week On The BNSF Northern Transcon Author: Ritzville 13, WB 918am oil train with BNSF 4200, KCSM 4732 and BNSF 4732 on the point with DPU's.
14. Another shot of KCSM 4732 on same train. 15. DPU's BNSF 6231-6735 on same train fading away.    Date: 02/27/21 15:45 Re: Catching up with The Week On The BNSF Northern Transcon Author: Ritzville 16. WB 409pm manifest train with BNSF 7385-6435 on the pull with DPU.
17. DPU BNSF 4679 on same train fading away. 18. WB 1127am coal train with BNSF 4454-6064 on the point with DPU.    Date: 02/27/21 15:50 Re: Catching up with The Week On The BNSF Northern Transcon Author: Ritzville 19. DPU's BNSF 6301-6398 on same coal train.
20. EB 1156am grain train with BNSF 7162 on the pull with DPU and a friendly wave from the conductor. 21. EB 1226pm manifest train with BNSF 6609, KCSM 4553 and BNSF 6161 on the point with DPU.    Date: 02/27/21 16:00 Re: Catching up with The Week On The BNSF Northern Transcon Author: Ritzville 22. Another shot of KCSM 4553 on same train.
23. DPU BNSF 8137 on same train fading away by old NP Ritzville Depot. 24. WB 1245pm stack train with BNSF 3271-8048-8460 on the pull with no DPU. That's it for today. Hope everyone is having a great weekend. Thank you so much for looking! Larry Ritzville, WA    Date: 02/27/21 16:35 Re: Catching up with The Week On The BNSF Northern Transcon Author: PasadenaSub Nice variety of trains, power, and rolling stock.
Rich Date: 02/27/21 19:06 Re: Catching up with The Week On The BNSF Northern Transcon Author: SCKP187 Nice shots during the change-of-weather day Larry. Emd wasn't very popular today but nice catches on all the foreign power.
Brian Stevens Date: 02/27/21 21:08 Re: Catching up with The Week On The BNSF Northern Transcon Author: pbouzide Nice seeing the Santa Fe Heritage Hopper.
I also like the huge shadows cast by the loco radiators in pic #1, not sure I've ever noticed that before. Date: 02/28/21 06:48 Re: Catching up with The Week On The BNSF Northern Transcon Author: pedrop The last three pictures taken at the track level are great!
Pedro Rezende Vespasiano MG, https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1 Date: 02/28/21 08:06 Re: Catching up with The Week On The BNSF Northern Transcon Author: Roadrailer That was a peculiar oil train with the CN DPU and the open-hopper buffer car up front.
Date: 02/28/21 08:50 Re: Catching up with The Week On The BNSF Northern Transcon Author: Ritzville Thanks everyone! I thought the same Richard when I saw the oil train.
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