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Yet another Seattle 'neighborhood' heard from...
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...concerning all those dangerous oil tankers. Georgetown. Yep. Industrial section where foundries once toiled 24/7, where castings were poured, hammer mills pounded, and shaped iron and steel into useful industrial needs that other industries ran on. But now all the mills, factories, and wor...
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Well something has to happen to unclog the ex-GN Highline around the Williston ND area with oil trains everywhere and Grain trains. Its a serious situation. Amtrak's Nos 7-8 Empire Builder has had a tough go getting through this area for the last year. AMTK changed the schedule of the Empire Builder o...
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Inside the North Dakota oil boom .
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Just happens BNSF is the railroad to transport the oil from the Bakken Oil Fields of North Dakota to elsewhere and its quite a development having oil-trains going all-over the USA today. Saw this video and maybe it will add some visual detail to your overall knowledge. Inside the North Dakota oil boo...
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Planes, Trains but no Automobiles
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Train carrying parts to Boeing derails in Montana Credit: Kyle MassickprintEmail this article| MOREby KING 5 NewsPosted on July 4, 2014 at 6:42 PMUpdated yesterday at 11:01 PM GallerySEE ALL 5 PHOTOS » SUPERIOR, MONTANA -- The investigation continues into the derailment of a train near...
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BNSF: About 10 oil trains per week pass through county
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The county is Snohomish WA and yes people have been out counting these trains as they go by their voluntary checkpoint and some numbers are up on the board to look at. Now whats missing in all this are the "loaded oil-trains" and the "empty oil-trains". Of course the loaded oil tr...
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Railroad company says oil train information should be confidential
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Its a whole new world today "being" a railroad. All of a sudden (in time) seems everybody is curious what the railroads are hauling these days. I'd have to say "what took you so long" but the public knows next to nothing about the trains passing thru town or know a boxcar from a tank...
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Big takeover at 2LARRCO!
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BNSF Train Derailment at Laura Illinois on transcon
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When the wind blows the train off the tracks. BNSF Train Derailment at Laura Illinois on transconhttp://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,3394562
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Uncle warren to the rescue! Hooray 2LARRCO!
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Yep folks Uncle Warren has rode in to save railroads, by buying, then deploying more locomotives to get things moving on the rails! Everything from coal, grain, and oil trains have been idled for lack of power. But Uncle Warren has the remedy to all those service interruptions! More locomotives, and...
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Western Railroad Discussion > BNSF to buy it's own fleet of oil tankers
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Western Railroad Discussion > BNSF stealing power
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Hope you dont mind reading some BNSF headlines from TO here in this place as I'm just a citizen these days with no contacts so I have to fish the net to find out anything. It seems the BNSF is in a deep hole right now trying to get all this new business and current business moving through North Dakota. It remi...
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Western Railroad Discussion > Casselton, ND Train Derailment + Explosion
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Western Railroad Discussion > BNSF Location info: Arco, WA
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Well I knew it just a matter of before the ARCO refinery at Cherry Point WA would be getting in on this Bakken crude by train. Well apparently shipments are on the way by this Drainorder thread. This will add atleast one more oil train leaving Everett everyday that could expand to 2 before you know it. Thi...
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Uncle Warren and Matt (and Carl, tu)
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BNSF railroad shuffles top execs but keeps Rose The Associated PressThe CEO who led BNSF railroad as it was sold to Warren Buffett's company is moving into the chairman's role, and another executive will be promoted to lead the company.The Fort Worth, Texas, based railroad announced the executiv...
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Warren's outfit hurts CSX employee
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Breaking news. A Buffalo to Selkirk Engineer has a reportable FRA injury, caused by an armrest breaking on a BNSF engine throwing said individual to the floor causing a head injury!
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2 same-sex couples sue BNSF over health benefits
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BNSF on way to epic meltdown?
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I can tell you that BNSF operates in mysterious ways today. They have the "kill approach" for any train that the BNSF Brainpower deems necessary. Amtrak gets screwed on a regular basis. Just about every long distance Amtrak train has no chance arriving within 4-8hrs of timetable time. It...
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BNSF Derailment at az/nm stateline
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Empty coal train derails about 50 cars on the BNSF super- freeway. I rode the AMTK Southwest Chief from KC to LA in April of 1984. I remember how fast the train was going and it was dark out. The whole night was at 90mph. Ride was smooth at 90mph. I was awake for most that 90mph ride through NM/AZ desert. It...
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Better late than never?
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But six years? Railroad to pay million dollar settlement to wildfire victimsCredit: KINGby CHRIS INGALLS / KING 5 News Posted on November 4, 2013 at 3:22 PMUpdated today at 4:04 PM KING 5 has learned that Burlington North Santa Fe (BNSF) railroad will pay a million dollar settlement to three famil...
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Wondering about grain...
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...'cause grain trains have all but disappeared, till today! Noticed three boats at anchor in Eliot Bay, while one is loading at the terminal. About time tu! BNSF has started moving corn and soy beans from Midwest farms. They're headed towards Japan and China. Several strings of empty hoppers line t...
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Three men struck by trains in Seattle area in 3 days
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I'm sure after the first one/day it was all abuzz in the train crew ranks. But 3 in 3-days...something is going on. Well astrologically, the Venus square Neptune on the 10th that overlapped a Sun square Jupiter this whole weekend. This would be the "reason" I would submit. Celestial influ...
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Gus was on rest...
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...but he turned over his keys to his assistant, who musta been in the shitter, and that's when it happened! http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/story/8e5c887784ee4dab91c6342cc279dd61/WA--Shooting-Train/
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Fire 'em All
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Washington state port approves lease for crude oil handling facility
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This is a joint effort with BNSF and UP so "oil will be coming this way" once its built. A lot of west coast refineries are building new tracks and gearing up for these oil trains that can come from anywhere but South Dakota and Sask Cananda have a lot of oil to ship right now with more sources com...
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