Western Railroad Discussion > Some Of Friday-Saturday's Action On BNSF--A Bit Of Traction

It was a breezy cool partly to cloudy day in Ritzville, WA on the BNSF Lakeside Sub on the Northern Transcon. The high-low was 58-33 with some drips yesterday. Traffic is at 26 trains since midnight with more on the way. Here are some trsins from Friday and Saturday with a bit of Traction and some.

5/6/2022

1. WB 230pm oil train with BNSF 7558-8129 on the point with DPU.
2. DPU BNSF 9186 on same train.
3. WB 346pm grain train with BNSF 8220 on the pull with DPU's and a friendly wave from the hogger.

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4. DPU's BNSF 5494-3956 on same train.
5. WB 441pm grain train with BNSF 5147-5529 on the point with DPU's.
6. DPU's BNSF 7886-6642-4658 on same train.

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7. EB 509pm manifest train with BNSF 7174-7324 on the pull with DPU.
8. WB 639pm coal train with BNSF 5474, Warbonnet 748 and BNSF 6777-5174 on the point with no DPU.
9. The End of same coal train.

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Nice series Larry, love the clouds!!! Thanks for sharing!

5/7/2022

10. WB 923am manifest train with BNSF 6552-8295 on the pull with DPU.
11. Nice new clean LINX reefer rolling in same train.
12. WB 1007am grain train with BNSF 610-9116 on the point with DPU.

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13. WB 1207pm manifest train with BNSF 8325-7950 on the pull with DPU and a friendly toot-toot from the hogger.
14. WB 1234pm grain train with BNSF 6705-4155 on the point with DPU.
15. DPU BNSF 5778 on same train.

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16. EB 227pm "Z" train with BNSF 5495-8149-4616 on the pull with no DPU.
17. TOFC rolling in same train.
18. More TOFC rolling in same "Z".

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

19. Pacific Electric 156 taking the rust of the freight rails on a Charter in the 1950's. Need location help Charlie.
20. Los Angeles Transit PCC 3165 on a charter in the 1950's. I should know this location, please refresh my memory.
21. OT--Greyhounds parked where?

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22. OT--Los Angeles Transit bus 5115. Need help on location.

That's it for today. Hope everyone had a great Mother's Day weekend. Thank you so much for looking!

Larry
Ritzville, WA

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rrartist Wrote:
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> Nice series Larry, love the clouds!!! Thanks for
> sharing!

Thanks Jim, sure enjoy your Watercolor works!

Larry

Lots of good variety Larry. The Z with the containers and TOFC is a really neat train
Brian Stevens

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Larry --

To echo Jim (rrartist), I too enjoy your photographic journals.  Having lived there briefly many many years ago, particularly enjoy the variety of the skies there on the dry side.  Keep it up.

Bob W.
Flatlands/Kan.

Thanks Brian and Bob for your kind comments. Do get some beautiful clouds at times here.

Larry

No 19 is at the extreme north end of the Pacific Electric's four tracks, just south of 9th St (Olympic Blvd).
Ray--'wattslocal'--Ballash tells us the tracks we see the 1546 on were used for mid-day storage as this
was the closest point, by rail, to 6th & Main for storage purposes; this after the so-called Terminal Yard tracks,
beneath the viaduct at 6th & Main had been removed in favor of bus storage.

No 20 is a charter run on LATL/LAMTA's J-Line. Here we see the PCC leaning into the curve on Pacific Blvd in
Vernon where it transitions from a northward to westward direction, just south of the railway's Vernon Yard.

Charlie



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/08/22 22:02 by cewherry.

Thanks Charlie for all your help on locations, much appreciated! 

Larry

Interesting traffic and nice cloud formations.  BNSF #9116 was a super nice catch with the mint condition paint.

The traction is really terrific.
The Greyhound Terminal scene includes three different models of coaches identified from left to right. The first, fourth, and fifth coaches are Model PD-4104 (Highway Traveler) built 1953 - 1960.  The second coach, not a Greyhound,  is a PD-4107 built 1966 - 1969, the last GM model purchased by Greyhound.  The third coach is a PD-4106 built 1961 - 1965.  Since the PD-4107 appears so new and there are no MCI built Greyhound coaches in the photo, I estimate iit was taken c1969.
Wonderful photo of LAT#5115, no advertising on this great looking GM "Old Look" .  Auto in the background is a 1956 Mercury.  Given the new like appearance of the coach and aoto, I estimate the photo was taken c1957.

Thanks for another super wonderful posting.

ALLEN  

Thanks Allen for all your interesting information. We'll see what Andy serves up tonight.

Larry

Could the yard with 5115. Be LA Metro Division 1?

Jerry Martin
Los Angeles, CA
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