Western Railroad Discussion > Sunday-Tuesday Action On The BNSF--A Bit Of Traction

It was a cool cloudy windy day in Ritzville, WA on the BNSF Lakeside Sub. The high-low was 50-35. Looked like rain but no dice.Traffic is at 15 trains since midnight with more on the way. In a lull at the moment. Here are some trains from Sunday and a few from today. Was at dentist yesterday, so no trains for Monday and a bit of Traction.

3/26/2023

1. WB 305pm "Z" train with BNSF 7696-5089-7600 on the point with no DPU.
2. TOFC on the roll in same train.
3. Stacks on the roll in same train.



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4. Grab shot of EB 330pm manifest train with BNSF 8146-7776 on the pull with DPU.
5. WB 409pm grain train with BNSF 4342-6617 on the point with DPU.
6. DPU FXE 4028 on same train.

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7. EB 433pm stack train with BNSF H1 1079-7664 on the pull with DPU.
8. Stacks on the roll in same train.
9. DPU BNSF 7575 on same train.

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10. WB 531pm manifest train with BNSF 6035-5909 on the point with no DPU.

3/28/2023

11. WB 1038am "Z" train with BNSF 7556 on the pull with DPU's.
12. DPU's BNSF 6376-7876 on same train.

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13. WB 1056am "Z" train with BNSF 6803-5342-4077 on the point with DPU.
14. DPU BNSF 7364 on same train.
15. EB 101pm "Z" train with BNSF 3877-3935-6718 on the pull with DPU.

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16. Stacks on the roll in same train.
17. TOFC on the roll in same train.
18. DPU BNSF 6101 on same "Z".

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19. Pacific Electric train with 1516 in front headed for Los Angeles 1950's. Any extra info welcomed. Jerry Squier photo.
20. Los Angeles MTA work equiment at Vernon Yard in 1963. Any extra info welcomed. Ron Johnsen photo.
21. San Francisco Muni streetcar 163 on K Line City College loop in 1956. Allen Weeks photo..

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22. MTBA(Boston) Trolley bus 4013 at N. Cambridge car house. No year on photo. Any extra info welcomed. Ron Johnsen photo.

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

Larry
Ritzville, WA

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Not as much variety as normal—nice Muni shot.
—Mac

Thanks Mac, it was quite Orange in the daylight the last couple of days. The good stuff ran at night, Murphy's Law!

Larry

No 19 is looking southward on Pacific Electric's four-track main line, I'm guessing around 48th Place, in
South Los Angeles. The two-car train of 'blimps' are likely passing a train of mill gondolas, out of Bethlehem
Steel's plant at Fruitland, on the Yorba Linda Line, which has just joined the four-tracks south of Slauson Ave
en route to PE's Butte St Yard for further switching. That's my best guess scenario---and I'm open to corrections.

No 20 is within the confines of LAMTA's Vernon Yard, and by the looks of the skeletonized tracks in the foreground,
it's very close to the last operations by the 'other' streetcar company in town, March 31, 1963. The photographer
has struck pay-dirt in capturing three pieces of MOW equipment that escaped the scrapper's torch and live on today
at the Southern California Railway Museum in Perris. Nearest is crane car 9225 a 1912 product of LARy that used
a Whiting 5-ton derrick, powered from the trolley pole seen raised here. The pole atop the cab was/is for propulsion.
Next is rail grinder 9310, a single-truck 1925 product of the So Park Shops; followed by Tower Car 9350, built by LARy
in 1907. As far as I know all three remain in operating condition at Perris.
LAMTA photo information comes from The Yellow Cars Of Los Angeles, Jim Walker--editor.

Charlie 



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Louisville Section - running late, day spent trying to resolve isssues 

RITZVILLE ACTION
Variety of sky conditions including some mostly gray and some with interesting cloud formations.
All the intermodal traffic makes for color and variety; liked boxcars years ago for the same reason.
Taggers really like to hit boxcars and covered hoppers with big surface areas they can cover.
Unit Of The Day is FXE #4028

HISTORIC TRACTION
19 - A super nice heavy interurban action scene.
22 - #4013 is a Flyer Model E800 Blt 1976, the last electric mode only buses purchased by MBTA
 
Apporeciate your colorful action and interesting traction photo posting.
Hope your Monday at the dentist was better than today for me.

ALLEN      
 

Thanks Charlie for your in depth classroom of very interesitng informaton, especially with the MoW equipment and where it is now. Thanks Allen for all your interesting reviews and comments, unit of the day and bus model and year built. Hope you have a better day tomorrow. There is nothing I can say good about teeth cleaning except it's done for the next 6 months, lol.

Larry

Thanks Charlie and Larry.The mill train is a remider of what we once had.The LATL work equipment is super cool.Bill Webb
 

spider1319 Wrote:
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> Thanks Charlie and Larry.The mill train is a
> remider of what we once had.The LATL work
> equipment is super cool.Bill Webb
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Thanks Bill for your comments.

Larry