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Wonder if Uncle Warren knows about this one... http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rail-cars-leaking-crude-after-oil-train-derails-in-montana/ Maybe somebody called Gus, and he fielded the call for Uncle...
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Uncle Warren is gonna screw somebody over, per Snippy CAHT remarks, and the first commenter knows it.BNSF doesn't regret anything! They always talk how they are family and employee minded and care about communities. Train traffic isn't down, not unless we are all imagining all these trains rollin...
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And I'm Proud To Be A Railroader....
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These fucking railroad companies make Snippy so proud to have spent 40 years with them. http://www.columbian.com/news/2015/jul/02/bnsf-railway-whistleblower-awarded-125-million/ http://q13fox.com/2015/07/02/whistleb...
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US Open Golf at Chambers Bay WA
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It will be interesting to see how many trains go by during each day of TV coverage at Chambers Bay as the joint UP/BNSF Seattle-Portland double track mainline is western boundry line for the golf course. There maybe a couple holes right next to the tracks and this is a busy mainline with as many as 40-50 f...
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BNSF Blast
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2015 is the 2nd year BNSF has sponsered the Seattle Mariners and Root TV when a Mariner hits a home run. "The BNSF Blast" results in a BNSF train whistle from current locomotive as a Mariner rounds the bases after a HR. The BNSF mainline passes by the eastside of Safeco Field and you can hear...
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BNSF plans long-distance drone flights
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Drone track inspectors and whatever comes into view. If I was a railfan shooting pictures and a drone came over my head I might head for my car. Good thing I took a lot of railroad picture before it came to this. The Drones are going to be unleashed by the railroads in fleets real soon. BNSF plans long-di...
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Oil train derailment prompts evacuation in North Dakota town
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I think we can know for sure now that when an oil train derails that it will have 5-10 cars explode and catch fire..minimum. Still the railroads have a pretty record moving this stuff considering the amount of oil trains moving daily around the USA over a years time.Oil train derailment prompts evacua...
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Snohomish County group tallies oil train shipments, verifies BNSF railway reports
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I listen to BNSF Everett radio a lot and its surely 2-3 loaded oil/coal a day. Big difference between "2 and 3" a day. Its seems to error more on 3 oil/coal loads getting through Everett every day of the week . Good track record so far as with the whole oiltrain route from Spokane to Vancouver Wa...
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Never Good
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http://krqe.com/2015/04/28/trains-crash-near-roswell-old-dexter-highway-closed/
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BNSF derails and blows up another oil train: Galena, IL
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Would have to say this derailment had "celestial help" as its within 24hrs of a Venus trine Jupiter, Venus conjunct Uranus, Moon square Saturn, Moon oppose Uranus, Venus square Pluto, Sun sextile Pluto, and the omni- present Uranus square Pluto. Seems this oil train derailment happen...
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Indian tribe sues BNSF over oil trains
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Never saw this coming. BNSF got some pretty good lawyers. Think something will get worked out. Indian tribe sues BNSF over oil trains http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,3711260
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North Dakota crude oil trains get new rules
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I know crude oil has been shipped for years over the mountains by the SP to California..the so called "oil-cans" with a pretty good record I think. I mean the railroads dont have a speed restriction on a car of butane or LPG or propane as they could blow-up a whole city but very few over the las...
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BNSF adds safety rules for oil trains
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Since the BNSF makes a million dollars on every oil train seems they can add to the labor force a little. 35 MPH through cities of 100k or more. So out in the toolies its 50-60-65mph. I like the vigilance of flat-spot wheels more. Kinda funny..with the advent of welded rail and no more "clickity-cl...
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Northbound coal train at Marysville WA
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I noticed this vantage point a couple weeks ago enroute to getting my Jetta emmision tested. There was a huge lumber mill in the way but now the lumber mill is history. Need a few more trys as there are a lot of overhead wires that I might be able to re-position myself to avoid. 1st Street Marysville is the f...
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BNSF Everett February 28 2015
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Been almost 2 months without a train picture in Everett and the Sun is out and blue skies and its a Saturday so "I go in". I did check my astro calendar before going and the Moon is "void of course" all day which means I could be venturing into a "dead-zone" which is fine w...
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School Bus
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It would be an awful thing. Worked with a couple of guys who ran through a bus once but only the driver was aboard. They weren't so sure of that when they saw the bus, though.2 dead, a dozen injured in North Dakota train-bus crashBy DAVE KOLPACK Associated PressFARGO, N.D. (AP) - A school bus failed to y...
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BNSF Everett January 1 2015
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Think last year I made this trip on Jan 4. The Sun is out until it gets ruined and New Years Day has the lightest auto-traffic so a perfect time to go into Everett. Pretty much what I hoped for at the Delta Yard roundhouse tracks with maybe 40-50 locomotives all over the place. Seems the perfect place to pho...
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BNSF Bellingham 12-25-14
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The old GN Depot at Bellingham WA is a historical building so the BN and BNSF have kept their part of the deal as keeping the outside looking like its supposed to but on the inside all kinds of things went on as BN started making cubicles and office squares in the waiting room of the depot. I worked in this de...
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BNSF Is a Cash Machine
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Drain Odors has this thread going and the most interesting part of it is the opening part. Date: 11/17/14 09:55 BNSF Is a Cash Machine Author: GenePoon Buffett Said He Paid a Lot. $15 Billion Later, BNSF Is a Cash Machine. Business Week by Noah Buhayar November 10, 2014 > Days after Warren Buffett a...
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Another one goes 'splat' on 2LARRCO in Washington
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News flash on the local station... A woman standing in the middle of one of the double mains outside the Kelso, WA station was hit. Apparently with the fog, by the time the crew saw her it was really tu late... Trying ta get more details
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This is a busy place on the BNSF 30 miles north of Seattle. All kinds of junctions...Everett Jct., P.A.Jct, Sealine Jct, Delta Jct, GN Jct, Lowell Jct, which makes covering every thing at once impossible. So you have to pick your spots and hope for max action. BNSF Everett has changed quite a lot since I...
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BNSF to monitor it's railroad using drones??
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I can think of practical use already..drones monitoring the beaches from Everett to Seattle and the 30 miles of double track and 50 trains a day. You cant believe what a nightmare this can get on a sunny warm weekend or anyday of the week where people still think they "walk the tracks" in this...
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‘Coming crisis’: more trains carrying coal and oil
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Yes this is crisis already here. I've lived in Snohomish County longer than anywhere else in my life with Bellingham a close second. So I'm very aware of the "boom" in rail traffic going the BNSF Bellingham Sub today. It would seem if your are the BNSF and have a mainline in excellent conditi...
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BNSF has tentative deal to run trains with 1 worker
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I can tell you from experience that working for the railroad you always being replaced by technology. "The Long Arm of Technology" will reach you in your railroad occupation at some point in the future if it already hasnt. Cant say I agree with the one-man crew as a train is one of those modes...
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Marysville faces traffic nightmare with more trains
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I lived in Marysville WA twice in my life most recent 1989-91. The BNSF Bham Sub runs right through the middle of town thus dividing the town in half every time a train come through. Some "very busy crossings" and traffic jams that can extend into I-5 just from an oil train or coal train passin...
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