Western Railroad Discussion > Some Sunday and Monday Action On The BNSF-A Bit Of Traction

It was a cool cloudy windy Fall type day in Ritzville, WA on the BNSF Lakeside Sub on the Northern Transcon. The high-low was 56-42 with a Trace of drips. Traffic is at 18 trains since midnight with more on the way. MoW has made it's way back to back yard once again. Here are some trains from yesterday and today with a bit it of Traction.

5/1/2022

1. EB 245pm manifest train with BNSF 4024-7990 on the point with DPU.
2. WB 245pm manifest train with BNSF 4024-7990 on the pull with DPU.
3. DPU's BNSF 7459-4307 on same train.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/02/22 16:50 by Ritzville.

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4. WB 434pm manifest train with BNSF H1 963-7262-6626 on the point with DPU's.
5. DPU's BNSF 5627-3676 on same train.
6. WB 512pm grain train with BNSF Sticker 5872-6708 on the pull with DPU. Thanks Ted!



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/02/22 15:43 by Ritzville.

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7. WB 617pm "Z" train with BNSF 4024-7990-H1 1066 on the point with no DPU.
8. Stacks rolling in same "Z".
9. TOFC rolling in same "Z".

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Glad you were able to catch the sticker unit leading!

Ted Curphey
Ontario, OR

10. WB 626pm oil train with BNSF 7131-6994-H1 1044 on the pull with DPU.
11. DPU BNSF 6823 on same train.

5/2/2022

12. WB 952am 2x3x3 Super grain train with BNSF 6726-7441 on the point with DPU's.

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13. Middle DPU's BNSF 7687-5215-6607 on same train.
14. End DPU's CP 7033 and BNSF 5215-6607 on same Mega train.
15. WB 1007am grain train with BNSF 6154-4147 on the pull with DPU.

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16. DPU BNSF 7184 on same train.
17. WB 1019am oil train with BNSF 3919-4725-6704-3819 on the point with DPU's.
18.DPU's CN 2920 and BNSF 7664 on same train.

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

19. More surplus Pacific Electric Hollywood cars in West Hollywood in the 1950's Any extra info is welcomed. Photography by Alan Weeks.
20. Another shot of West Hollywood yard area in the 1950's. Any extra info welcomed Charlie. An Alan Weeks photo.
21. Key System E train Bridge unit 183 heading for Oakland, CA in the 1950's.

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22. LA MTA PCC 3001 on a Special in the 1950's or early 60's.
23. OT-LA Transit buses in the early to mid 1950's. Not sure of location.

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

Larry
Ritzville, WA

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Nice interesting day with a CP unit and a CN unit for varierty.

You saved the best for last, the photo with fifteen GM "Old Look" coaches.

Thanks for another great posting.

ALLEN

 

Nice series with the Canadians visiting the backyard. The old green buses and the Pacific Electric equipments are nice. Good times that never will be back.

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

Lots of neat stuff Larry.  I especially like the CP unit.  Those green buses are just like in my home town when growing up in the 50s
Brian Stevens

SCKP187 Wrote:
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> Lots of neat stuff Larry.  I especially like the
> CP unit.  Those green buses are just like in my
> home town when growing up in the 50s
> Brian Stevens

I too grew up with those type buses and Mack and White buses in San Francico. In SF they had everything, buses, streetcars and Cable Cars and SP commute trains.

Larry

Nos 19 & 20 show us a little more of Pacific Electric's West Hollywood yard and shops layout.
In No 19 the photographer is standing about in the middle of the 5 1/2 acre yard, looking north toward
Santa Monica Blvd with the Hollywood Hills in the background. The building at the right is the shop building
which lost its as built purpose as Pasadena & Pacific's, later Los Angeles Pacific's main shops after the 1911
Great Merger when "New" PE moved those functions to it's pre-existing shops at 7th & Central in Los Angeles.
Following that move, this building provided running repairs only for those lines based here.
When built, the West Hollywood yard encompassed 2.5 miles of yard tracks as well as an electric substation, freight 
station, passenger waiting room (along Santa Monica Blvd) as well as a 10 track carhouse and trainman's room.
You can Google the location today where LA Metro's Division 7 occupies only a portion of the original yard.

No 20; The photographer has moved further south and, still pointing his camera north, now gets a portion of the
10 car carhouse in the picture. We also see tower car 00164. This car came to "Old" PE in 1902 from
Golden Gate Park & Ocean Shore Ry. It was rebuilt by "New" PE in 1912 to a box motor and again in 1939 to the
tower car we see here. In 1950 the car was assigned to PE Western District owing to its unique ability as PE's only
line car small enough to fit in the subway. It was sold to Metropolitan Coach Lines along with the remainder of PE's
passenger operations in 1953 and following abandonment of all electric service on the Western District was trucked
by MCL to Long Beach in 1955 where it served on the Southern District until the final ending in 1961 after which it was
scrapped at National Iron & Metals on Terminal Island.

No 23 is at MCL's Venice bus garage, former site of PE's Ocean Park Car House. You will find this today
as LA Metro's Division 6. In this view we are looking south-east from Pacifc Ave in the Venice Beach area.

Charlie

 

Looks like you got your CP unit after all Larry lol.
We had 2 CP trains go by here at Sunset Jct. after 6pm. A loaded potash and a manifest. Really wish (for you) that they would pay you another visit.
- Andy

Thanks everyone! Thanks Charlie for all the side information on the PE and buses, much appreciated! Had lots of foreign power today Andy. I missed Warbonnet 777, I'll try and catch it on it's return trip.

Larry



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/02/22 22:03 by Ritzville.