Western Railroad Discussion > Finally A Cooler day On The BNSF Lakeside Sub-A Bit Of Traction

It was finally a windy cooler sunny day in Ritzville, WA on the BNSF Northern Transcon. The high-low was 84-60.A couple more cooler days, then the high heat is back. Don't know the traffic count todsy since the monitor was down util about 830am Here are some trains from yesterday and today. Trains were stopped for about three hours due to fire in Lind, WA. Still not much running at the moment.

8/3/2022

1. EB 229pm manifest train with BNSF 6276, KCS 4629? and BNSF 5730 on the point with no DPU.
2. Grab shot of EB 321pm manifest train with BNSF 3276 on the point of 5 units with no DPU.
3. Old Union Equity hopper rolling in same train.

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4. EB 441pm manifest train with BNSF 8409-4377-9066 on the point with DPU.
5. a string of MRL empty wood chip cars rolling in same train.
6. DPU 7129 on WB 447pm coal train. Point was blurred GE's.

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7. EB 712pm garbage/manifest train with BNSF 6954-5854 on the pull with no DPU.

8/4/2022

8. EB 927am manifest train with BNSF 3801-6839-4092 on the point with no DPU.
9. Long string of covered gondolas rolling in same train,

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10. WB 1024am "V" train with BNSF 6815 on the pull with DPU and a frieindly toot-toot from the hogger.
11. Old SP auto rack rolling in same train.
12. DPU BNSF 7880 on same train.

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13. EB 1136am manifest train with BNSF Orange-9378-7736-8120 on the point with no DPU.
14. EB 1148am empty grain train with BNSF 5125-6937 and KCS 4614 on the pull with no DPU.
15. Another shot of KCS 4614 on same train.

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16. EB 1243pm "Z" train with BNSF 4256-8022-7929 on the point with no DPU.
17. Stacks on the roll on same "Z".
18. TOFC on the roll on same train.

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Now for a bit of Traction and some from the Andy Goddard collection. All Jerry Squier photos except one.

19. LARy streetcar 365 on the F Line in the 1940's. Need location help Charlie.Bob McVay photo.
20. Key System F Train 155 coming up from so called Subway in the 1950's. More info welcomed.
21. Key System station near San Pablo Ave and Yerba Buena in the 1950's. More info welcomed.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/04/22 16:31 by Ritzville.

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22. OT--Another shot of small GMC bus 48 in Yakima, WA in the 1960's.
23. OT--Older bus in Honalulu bus lines 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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Shot 21 is the star of today's post Larry!  So much cool history to look at.

No 19. This image appears in the pacificelectric.org website and is captioned to have been taken in 1947
by Bob McVay and is in the Ralph Cantos collection. A check of the yellow pages from the era locates the
Eagle Broom Works at 829 E Fourth Pl. Today the 'Place' has been changed to 'Street' and the building we
see is now a parking garage. In the photo, the car is moving westward and is about 700 feet west of the
Fourth St bridge over the L.A. River.  At one time, the 'F' (for Fourth) Line was one of LARy's longer routes, running
between the Evergreen Cemetery in the Boyle Heights area of East L.A., through downtown and as far south as
116th & Vermont, a distance of 13+ miles.

Charlie

 

I wish the water bumpers were still around today.

I think they would look better on the buses we have now.

Jerry Martin
Los Angeles, CA
Central Coast Railroad Festival

#21, the Key System shot, had to be immediately after abandonment of the trains (April 20, 1958).  Some fresh asphalt, and maybe a group of railfan mourners?
 

Thanks everyone for all your interesting comments and  locations, much appreciated!

Larry

Running late again today; hope to be on the advertised tomorrow.

Ritzville Action
Weather may be coller but the action is still hot.
Several BNSF EMD units offered some motive power variety.
Colorful MRL chip cars, and intermodal traffic brightened the day.

Historic Traction
19 - Great color scene from the 1940's; love the vintage autos
21 - Super scene with GM Old Look; appears to be a 35 foot coach
22 - Little short GM New Look is a real cutie
23 - Nice looking 40foot GM Old Look

Thanks for posting soo mant interesting photos' especially the busses.

ALLEN

#21 was part of an order to replace the bridge railway, and they were 40 footers.  2100 series if memory serves me.



 

Thanks Allen for your always interesting review. Had the railroad tied up for awhile during a fire in Lind, WA that was quite devestating to people's homes. Thanks norm1153 for your interesting comments..

Larry