Western Railroad Discussion > A Roll Thru The Week On The BNSF--A Bit Of Traction

It was a coolish cloudy day in Ritzville, WA on the BNSF Lakeside sub on the Northern Transcon. The high-low was 59-36 with the coolish temps to continue. Traffic is at 27 trains since midnight with more on the way. Here are some trains from Apr. 25-28. Every time I miss a train, it's always a good one, I guess that's Murphy's Law, lol.

4/25/2022

1. Grab shot of EB 309pm manifest train with NS 4401 and BNSF 7386-7816 on the point with no DPU.
2. Nice new black ITFX car rolling in WB 527pm manifest train. First time to see this car.

4/26/2022

3. WB 148pm coal train with BNSF 7734-6910-7051 on the pull with DPU.



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4. WB 202pm manifest/coke train with BNSF 6602 and Warbonnet 792 on the point with DPU.
5. Another shot of Warbonnet 792 on same train.
6. DPU BNSF 7402 on same train.



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7. WB 234pm oil train with BNSF 3976-5431 on the pull with DPU's.
8. Grab shot of EB 335pm manifest train with BNSF 7463-7225-6672 and green BN 1787 on the point with DPU.
9. Another shot of Green BN 1787 on same train.

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10. WB 425pm grain train with BNSF 7626-8790 on the point with DPU.
11. WB 645pm grain train with BNSF 7098 and NS 8007 on the pull with DPU's.

4/27/2022

12. WB 1002am manifest train with BNSF 8148 and CP 8885 on the point with no DPU.



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4/28/2022

13. WB 838am oil train with CN 2845 and BNSF 5227 on the pull with DPU's.
14. DPU's BNSF 7603-4446 on same train.
15. EB 911m grain train with BNSF 8220 on the point with DPU.

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16. DPU BNSF 5474 on same train.
17. EB 1054am stack train with BNSF 83433969 on the pull with DPU.
18. DPU BNSF 5964 on same train.

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19. Grab shot of EB 1113am grain train with BNSF 7732-3830, green and cream Grinstein 9809 and BNSF 4545 on the point with no DPU.

Now for a bit of Traction and some from the Andy Goddard collection.

20. Key System C train 186 bound for San Fraqncisco at Berkeley, CA in the 1950's. Not sure on exact location.
21. San Francisco Muni PCC 1031 K Ingleside in the West Portal Dist. in 1966.

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22. Pacific Electric 1706 sitting in 1950's?. Need help on location Charlie.
23. OT--More old Pacific Electric buses in the 1950's. Not sure of location.
24. OT--Trolley bus in Mexico City, not sure of the year.

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

Larry
Ritzville, WA

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Great series today Larry. I also like the black Fe Trading high side gondola. Fe is the simbol of  "Ferro" = iron. Beautifull logotype.
The buses are great too.
 

Pedro Rezende
Vespasiano MG,
https://youtube.com/c/minasgeraisrailways1

No 22: I'm 90 (maybe 85) percent sure the 1706 is sitting in the Morgan Ave Yard in Long Beach.
Maybe I'm noodling this too much but the window placement on the building we see at the extreme
left doesn't seem to match those we see in photo 21 of your 04/25/22 posting. If not Morgan, then
it would have to be Fairbanks--the only two places in Long Beach that would have routinely seen 'blimps'.
In either case, the 1706 was MTA's renumbering of the former IER car from the Bay Area; which was
scrapped in 1961, I presume after all former PE lines had been withdrawn from service.

No 23 is on the site of Pacific Electric's Ocean Park carhouse, which upon abandonment of PE
Venice Short Line (VSL) rail service in 1948 was, about three years later--in 1951, opened as the
"Venice Bus Garage". The site continues today as a service terminal for Metro's operation.
The street we see in the distance is Pacific Ave which in PE's rail days was referred to as
"The Trolleyway", a grade separated right of way that connected PE's VSL with the Santa Monica via
Sawtelle Line, both inherited from Los Angeles Pacific in the 'Great Merger' of 1911.

Charlie

Nice photos. Once again, really good shots during the day when you get so many different foreign power units.
Brian Stevens

BNSF #9809 was a super nice catch.  NS, CN and CP units added variety.
Definitely like Key Train #186 and PCC #1031 scenes.

The four "Old Look" busses are 45 Passenger Diesel Hydraulic models.  Flat windshields indicate they were built in i940 before the windshield arrangement was changed late in that year.
The windshield design was then changed to the more familiar and numerous tilted design to address glare issues.

Thanks for the BNSF Ritzville update and the great traction posting, especially the busses.

ALLEN
 

Thanks Pedro, Brian, Charlie and Allen! Thanks Charlie for all your location informatiom expertise, much appreciated. Thanks Allen for your extra interesting info on the busses.

​Larry



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