Western Railroad Discussion > Rolling Along on the BNSF Lakeside Sub--A Bit Of Traction

It was a windy(20-35mph) warm day in Ritzville, WA on the BNSF Northern Transcon. The high-low was 88-65, down from 98 yesterday. Traffic is at 18 trains since midnight with more on the way. Here are some trains from the last few days.

6/26/2022

1. EB 339pm 3x2x1 Super empty grain train with Warbonnet 720 and BNSF 5904-9145 on the point with DPU.
2. Middle DPU's BNSF 6139-7168 on same train.
3. End DPU BNSF 7898 on same Mega train.

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4. WB 646pm grain train with BNSF 6505-7206 on the pull with DPU.
5. WB 748pm "Z" train with BNSF 6505-7206 on the point with DPU's.
6. DPU's BNSF H1 1072-8593 on same "Z".

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7. WB 803pm stack train with BNSF 7436-6407-7595 on the pull with no DPU.
8. Stacks on the roll on same train.

6/27/2022

9. WB 1102am container train with BNSF 7780-8077-7396 on the point with no DPU.

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10. WB 1149am garbage/manifest train with BNSF 8065-4221-7813 on the pull with no DPU and a friendly wave from the hogger.
11. WB 1202pm 2x3x3 Super grain train with BNSF 7963-7389 on the point with DPU's and a friendly toot-toot-wave from the hogger.
12. Middle DPU's BNSF 7808-7129-4086 on same train.

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13. End DPU's BNSF 5520-8071-749 on same Mega train.
14. WB 817pm grain train with BNSF H1 1089-3877-6995 on the pull with no DPU.
15. Washington State Grain Train Hoppers rolling on same train.

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6/28/2022

16. The first three units of 8, BNSF 6399, FXE 4653 and BNSF 1685 on EB 1004 am manifest train.
17. Going away grab shot of same trsin with the 8 units.

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

18. Pacific Electric 1220 passing Amoco Tower outbound in about 1950. More info welcomed.

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19. Los Angeles Transit PCC 3001 on a Charter trip in the 1950's. More info welcomed.
20. Washington D.C. PCC 1179 in the 1950's. More info welcomed.
21. San Diego MTS PCC 530, ex San Francisco Muni PCC in old SD color scheme in 2022. There sre two PCC's in San Diego 529-530. Andy Goddard photo.

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22. OT--Santa Monica bus yard in the 1960's.

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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Ritzville Action
Clear and comfortable, the way I like it.  The traffic volume and mix are impressive.
BNSF #1685 was a super nice catch.  The Grain Train hoppers are really neat.

Historic Traction
18 - Wonderful heavy interurban action scene.  The tower arrangement is very interesting.
20 - DC Transit scene is really a traction treasure.
22 - The Santa Monica bus scene is super; the GM New Look is one of my favorite models.

Thanks for keeping the camera rolling and goodies flowing.  Really appreciate your work.

ALLEN

 

Great bunch of shots with all the different power models and train types Larry
Brian Stevens

Posted from iPhone

Good catch on the Grain hoppers Larry. I really like those. That DC Traction pic could well be up near the Train station. ???
Regards,DK

No 18 is at Amoco, on PE's Southern District. The two 1200 class cars are so-called "Butterfly Twelves" 
as denoted by their special paint treatment, along with other enhancements, received in their 1939
upgrade--an attempt to attract passengers to the Los Angeles-San Bernadino service. Alas, it was for
naught as PE abandoned scheduled passenger service east of Covina after November 1, 1941.
Following 1941, these "Butterflies" could be seen throughout PE's far-flung system as we see here.
The dash sign says "Newport Beach Express" supposedly to let "in-the-know" passengers awaiting
a car to stop and pick them up that this car wasn't going to do so; except at four locations between
LA and North Long Beach: Slauson Jct, Watts, Compton and Dominguez Jct.

A caption in Alan Copeland's book Pacific Electric in Color, Vol 1, says the final Newport Beach Express
ran on June 30, 1950. 

Charlie

The 1200s, except for 1299, were sold for scrap in 1951.

Steve

Thanks everyone for your interesting information and other tid-bits of info, always appreciated!

Larry

#19, the destination is "San Fernando", I grew up there and would like to know the location of the photo, and where perhaps the charter originated.

smf2mry Wrote:
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> #19, the destination is "San Fernando", I grew up
> there and would like to know the location of the
> photo, and where perhaps the charter originated.

The practice of placing some destination, not attainable for a variety of reasons, in the destination
signs of streetcars came into vogue during the height of railfan charter trips. What we see in this
photo is a bit of good-natured tomfoolery, courtesy the members of the Electric Railway Association
as well the management of Los Angeles Transit Lines.

This L. Swanson photo, in the collection of Andy Goddard, 'Ritzville's' source of many, if not all, of these
traction photos was taken March 18, 1957 on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the inauguration
of PCC streetcar service in Los Angeles. Here we see the car 3001 on LATL's R-Line, Whittier Blvd
somewhere east of downtown LA.

I can't help you on the question of where the charter originated, but here you will see two more photos of the same trip:  https://www.pacificelectric.org/los-angeles-railway/r-line/r-line-3001-on-pcc-anniversary/

Charlie
 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/29/22 09:35 by cewherry.

Thanks for the update Charlie!

Larry

cewherry Wrote:
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> smf2mry Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
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> > #19, the destination is "San Fernando", I grew
> up
> > there and would like to know the location of
> the
> > photo, and where perhaps the charter
> originated.
>
> The practice of placing some destination, not
> attainable for a variety of reasons, in the
> destination
> signs of streetcars came into vogue during the
> height of railfan charter trips. What we see in
> this
> photo is a bit of good-natured tomfoolery,
> courtesy the members of the Electric Railway
> Association
> as well the management of Los Angeles Transit
> Lines.
>
> This L. Swanson photo, in the collection of Andy
> Goddard, 'Ritzville's' source of many, if not all,
> of these
> traction photos was taken March 18, 1957 on the
> occasion of the 20th anniversary of the
> inauguration
> of PCC streetcar service in Los Angeles. Here we
> see the car 3001 on LATL's R-Line, Whittier Blvd
> somewhere east of downtown LA.
>
> I can't help you on the question of where the
> charter originated, but here you will see two more
> photos of the same
> trip:  https://www.pacificelectric.org/los-angel
> es-railway/r-line/r-line-3001-on-pcc-anniversary/
>
> Charlie
>  

Interesting, thanks for the response.