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The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

BNSF Everett Wa.

The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

Its been since January 4th since I've taken train pictures.
Miserable winter with very few sun days. Today was not
a great day for pictures as it was a grey day. As a photographer
you think you can take a great picture no matter the conditions
and so I make a run into Everett to see whats going on.
Delta Yard was full of power sitting around but in the very back
of all this power was the picture of the day. Not a roster shot
but just the first glimpse of a unit that is likely to stay around
the Everett area for months to come. BNSF 168 GP60 with
a lot of previous owners. More to come on this unit. Next was
a lonely oil train waiting for a crew on the Marsh Tracks at
Delta Yard. RCO switching at Delta Yard has the BNSF 2279
at run-8 making a huge shove in the plant at Delta Jct...
with nobody on the engine. Over at Bayside...the PASVBT
(Pasco-Vancouver Brownsville Terminal) was dead and
awaiting a new crew. A chance to get a few shots of a CN-unit
in the consist. I always feel better after taking some new train
pictures.

-- Edited by The Krink on Sunday 23rd of March 2014 03:13:56 AM

Freddie Krueger · Unstable & Irrational

Saw the Nickel Plate Heritage Unit last night at RG....

Snippy · Force Majeure

Freddie Krueger wrote:
I came after I saw the Nickel Plate Heritage Unit last night at RG....

disbelief doh

Although that is the sharpest one, that's taking it a bit phar.

Cy Valley · Upgraded Condition

Freddie Krueger wrote:
Saw the Nickel Plate Heritage Unit last night at RG....

OMFG!!! Phreddie saw it, High Speed Service and all! Ignore that phukking Snippy, he's just jealous.

Cy has never seen a Heritage unit but Cy has avoided those places they might be found.

Snippy doesn't like the Green Team unit? I've seen pics of the unit that Follows the Flag that look pretty good. Despite all those old backstabbing Clown Town phukkers I knew.

Freddie Krueger · Unstable & Irrational

Doing the laundry now.....

The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

I ventured back into Everett for a second day as the sun was out Sunday.
I think I took nearly 50 pictures in a 2-hour span from 4:30PM-6:30PM
If you think Sunday might be a dead day on the BNSF through Everett you
would be half right. Yes there are dead trains or havent moved much trains
all over the place. I love a "static display"...much easier to get a good picture.
I had enough time to get to Lowell to catch the eastbound Empire Builder
which is now available since the time change. Every time I head to Lowell
I wonder what may be waiting to go after Amtrak. This scene I have got
pics from 4 previous occasions with almost the same picture except the
engine numbers are different and the train types are different. More
great pics to come from this outing in Everett WA.

-- Edited by The Krink on Monday 24th of March 2014 02:16:42 AM

The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

Saw a one-two paragraph article in the Everett Herald a couple days
ago about Amtrak changing the departure time from Seattle on the
Eastbound Empire Builder 3 hours earlier so that would be 2:40PM
at Everett instead of a 5:40PM schedule that has been in place for more
than 30 years. Reasons stated was was trying to get through North
Dakota easier or something. The article "flat-out" said that every westbound
Empire Builder is going to be hours late getting into Seattle. Well the
average late time today is from 4-8hrs late. The Empire Builder every
winter has to go through the "Northern Tier" of very bad winter conditions
and they hardly ever make it Seattle on time before the oil-train boom.
I liken it to a NASCAR race through ND for Amtrak...you are the fastest
car but you are stuck in lapped-traffic. For the passengers riding the
EB Empire Builder at the new departure time, they will get to see all
of Washington in the daylight past Spokane. New photo opportunities
for me earlier in the day.

The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

Some more pix from my last outing into Everett. BNSF has been moving oil
trains through here atleast 3 each way a day. Then add the same amount
of coal trains a day and you got a lot trains each day that get to Everett
and die. Many reasons for that. Everett is like a spoke. The north spoke
that runs into Canada has to have crews that are qualified to run in Canada
so every northbound train leaving Everett has a fresh crew. Same can be
said for the east spoke as just so many are qualified for "The Hill" and
Lowell seems to be the catch point/starting point for fresh crews ready
to take the empty coal and empty oil trains east. Then there are the

"K-Crews" which transfer many trains out of the Sea-Tac-Aub-Everett

jungles and navigate trains through the high density areas and

just drop off another train for another crew call for some new direction.

-- Edited by The Krink on Thursday 3rd of April 2014 01:57:11 AM

-- Edited by The Krink on Thursday 3rd of April 2014 02:06:56 AM

Freddie Krueger · Unstable & Irrational

I man handled the NKP engine today, flogged it for all it was worth.... Splooge was flying everywhere from the foamers along the Trenton Line....

Cy Valley · Upgraded Condition

For pennies a day, we could look:

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?2,3369670

No current pictures but we can see it actually moved:

https://heritageunits.com/Locomotive/Detail/NS8100

Thunderwagon5000 · Barely a pulse...

Cy Valley wrote:
For pennies a day, we could look:
http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?2,3369670
No current pictures but we can see it actually moved:
https://heritageunits.com/Locomotive/Detail/NS8100

The locomotive sighting map is impressive. Am I wrong or does this drainodours crew have even better information than the big carriers ? That is the big joke at Lintco, The fact their sales people sell the service claiming abilities to find any railcar anytime. But really they are calling crews on trains every day to ask them what locomotives are working because they really don't know and this a kind of a concern when you are operating a mega size multinational tramsportation corp. .

Uke · Cured

2LARRCO spends millions for info systems using satellite technology, microwave communications, and other technology to 'report' loco conditions back ta BNSF Hqs. in Ft. Worthless. More often than not, the shit fails! The so called 'power desk' is no help ta dispatchers, yards, or terminals where trains originate/terminate.

In other words... All the crap they've bought, doesn't justify the cost! A human being could do the job better, faster, and more efficiently in most cases.

But Uncle Warren really hates ta spend money on actual people who know these machines. All the sophisticated electronics, and communication systems in the world won't get the trains over the road!

The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

Freddie Krueger wrote:
I man handled the NKP engine today, flogged it for all it was worth.... Splooge was flying everywhere from the foamers along the Trenton Line....

Thats whats so great about the BJ is we get great coverage on East Coast

happenings. Freddie has a very interesting life going right now and it got

"even better". I mean I know a person (Freddie) who ran the NKP engine

just yesterday. To bad I have no one to share my joy with right now but

it may come up in later conversations.

The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

KCS power not that common in the GPNW and probly the least likely
to see way the fuck out here. I mean it shows up every now and then about
the same infrequency as CP power...not very often. Everett is on the
"Trans-con" so you are going to see all kinds of power over time/daily.
BNSF/CSX/NS combinations are pretty common. BNSF/CN combinations
are very common. BNSF/UP combinations are less around Everett anyway,
BNSF/KCS or BNSF/CP are the rare events if you want to call it that.
So I hit Everett Saturday and things were as dead as it could be but I
got a couple shots of KCS 4114 at BNSF Delta Yard and a long way from
home. This unit has made the rounds. Looked it up on rrpicturearchives
and this unit has touched just about every base in the USA including
Philly. Well now I will be the last person to add to its "whereabouts".

-- Edited by The Krink on Sunday 13th of April 2014 02:20:52 AM

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