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Only Z’s in and out of California
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This is one of the strangest things I ever heard off...no manifest or unit trains into California...for a while. There was a story/notice that this was going to happen and reason offered was that CA needed to cleaned out to make room and maybe some track work too. Watching the Kingman and Winslow cams a...
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Railfan Arizona railcams
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Virtual Railfan has had a cam at Flagstaff AZ for a long time with East and West cams. Just recently they changed the view and when the PTZ cam operator is on board can telephoto the curve to the east for west bounds. Recent VR Grab Bag has 2 WB's racing side by side into Flagstaff. New in town to is "Railfan...
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Railfanning Seattle via traffic cams
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This is amazing that one can do this. For me no way I'm going to railfan Seattle like I did in the 70's-80's because its the worst traffic in world getting to all the places now. Hence all the traffic cams. Once you know what cam you like the most you can watch it live. Fo me I think the Airport Way cam with 5-6...
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Whats the backstory?
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This popped up in my feed today. I never knew it had happened. Seemed like it was during the former BN years. The video is narrated by the d.s. that it happened to and when I saw the video was over an hour long I was like, "meh..." Next thing I knew I was already halfway through it. Pretty interesting stuff!...
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BNSF Z Train Crashed and Burned Sunday Morning
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Yes its true. Lucky where it derailed has "elevated track" and the "derailment" is off to the side and the track people fix the track and trains start running again. Riding the Empire Builder has been one thing after another getting from Chicago to Seattle lately. Toss in an emergency shutdown of the b...
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Train derails in Milam County - BNSF in Texas
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22-car derailment with Mercury square Saturn the celestial force in this mess. Train derails in Milam County - BNSF in Texas
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BNSF about to reinvent the wheel, revamps their "Z" train program
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Basically its easier to count from "1" to "9" than it is from "9" to "1". So come May 1th the hottest BNSF trains will be "Z1's" instead of "Z9's". After watching so many hours of VR I can tell a "Z1" when I see one...5 units up front of half stacks and half UPS/FEDEX TOFC doing 70mph. BNSF about to reinvent t...
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BNSF paid 2 Billion for MRL lease.
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2 billion sure sounds like a lot but not for BNSF. Going to be interesting how the BNSF wants to run things. MRL doing a great job keeping all the BNSF traffic moving through this tough strech of Montana. It looks this ex-NP/BN/MRL strech of track going to go through "labour uncertainty" again. It all st...
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More Tehachapi Woes
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I'd say this derailment had some celestial help. A side-swipe between a moving train and one the siding. More to the story will be known. More Tehachapi Woes -- Edited by The Krink on Friday 4th of March 2022 02:46:29 AM
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BNSF Northern Transcon Derailment in MN
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Between Freezy and Detroit Lakes MN on the BNSF Staple Sub it looks like a EB Ztrain derailed maybe at a Xover with a stopped oil/ethanol train on other main. This is double track and fast track and a foot of windswept snow on the ground and very cold out. The derailing Ztrain scraping/hitting the stoppe...
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Denver Again
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DENVER (KDVR) ? A freight train derailed Saturday morning in Denver, with some of the train cars tumbling into the South Platte River.The BNSF Railway train derailed as it was leaving the Denver rail facility around 7 a.m., according to the company.NSF said seven empty lumber derailed, and three...
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Oregon Woes BNSF
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Google Maps Emergency crews including Klamath County Sheriff Deputies, and Klamath County Fire District 1 were dispatched at about 8:30pm last night to a report of a bridge collapse. The initial report was that a bridge near Washburn and Chambers Lane had collapsed.Emergency crews checked the a...
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Denver tragedy
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DENVER A BNSF Railway employee was fatally injured while working in a Denver rail yard Wednesday, the railroad said. The Denver Police Department said the man was hit by a train Wednesday morning at the Globeville rail yard at 3700 North Globeville Road. No other details about the crash have been re...
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Firey derailment in Oklaunion TX
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TO had nothing on this BNSF derailment near/in Oklaunion TX. This is the ex-FW&D line through Texas. Pretty spectacular fire from the 28-30 tanks filled/unfilled laying in a nice neat side by side pile on fire. Pretty sparse population area. Derailment happens with Sun conjunct retrograde Ve...
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RIP MRL
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BNSF annouce they are going to "resume service" over the ex-NP Laurel MT to Sandpoint ID mainline that the Montana Rail Link operated in name. The MRL got to do all the grunt work of getting BNSF trains over several passes in Montana and making money doing it. Time to cutout the middleman. Prior to the MR...
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BNSF derailment at Cables near Tehachapi
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Plenty to read on TO about the derailment but this video pretty much all you need to see/know. Venus in retrograde. Delayed trains means lost dollars and big fix-it projects. Last TO post says UP sneaked a Z-train past the derailment late Thursday night but its fast and furious efforts to get line ope...
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Stevens Pass shut down due to derailment
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I just sat down in my seat at the garage door to hand out peanuts to the needy about 10am and I hear the BNSF Seattle East Dispr give the news on the radio to all trains on the Scenic Sub going east that a derailment at Scenic has changed everybodies plans. A lengthy speech telling what trains are going to do w...
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BNSF Missouri Derailment
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A 41 car derailment of a Galesburg to Barstow Manifest train 16 miles east of La Plata. Both mains blocked. A big mess but a little different. If you want the TO take...BNSF Missouri Derailment or if you just want to see what the derailment looks like from an amateur video person trying to get a good angle...
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Derailment on the Clovis Sub
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"Derailment" putting it mildly. Try a 100+car train derailing at 70mph and what you get is an 80 car derailment/pile-up. This on the BNSF southern transcon/ATSF tracks near "Nowhere" NM. Someone mentioned a X-over at the location of the derailment. Others mentioned some Xmas packages that might n...
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BNSF wreck near Omaha Pjct-KCY line
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It appears to be a "rear ender". The TV new videos very poor in showing the derailment mess. One member of TO familiar with BNSF operating practices on this line mentioned its common/daily that trains get permission to park behind train ahead. Busy E-W Jct ahead and trains get backed-up so they park th...
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Flooding on the BNSF Sumas Sub
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Today another video posted of the flood damage at Sumas Wa. Instead of the 6-cars derailed in earlier reports looks more like 20. Derailed by raging flood waters just sitting in the yard. It may be a while before BNSF crews can get to Sumas. Have no idea how the line faired from Sedro Woolley to Sumas but s...
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BNSF coal train Derailment Montrose IA...never guess why
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It you ever watched the Madison IA VR cam the set of tracks closest to the camera is the BNSF K-Line from Burlington IA to St. Louis that runs right along the shore of the Mighty Mississip. I bet this train crew never thought they would hit a "barge over the tracks". Loose barge ends up obstructing the trac...
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Problem east of Barstow CA?
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Yeah a big problem a derailment on the BNSF Transcon 40 miles east of Barstow with both main lines messed up. BNSF seems confident it can re-open one main track soon. Hope so because 15 (and growin) eastbounds and 18 (and growin) westbounds in position to get by this area. Has to be "re-crewing" nightma...
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MIR on the BNSF
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A derailment at Caliente on the Tehachapi line. Trains running again. Caliente derailment With the Amtrak derailment on the BNSF HiLine closing freight/cargo traffic for 4 days BNSF has another route it can take via the ex-NP through the Dakotas to Laurel MT connects with MRL which goes to Sandpoi...
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Tehachapi Derailment?
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Yes. And according later posts they got trains running through the derailment area. Sounds like a derailment in a tunnel...a short tunnel. Blame Venus square Pluto on this derailment. I know I would. Tehachapi Derailment?
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