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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 on Apr 15th

to a 3hr earlier start time. I dont know how that helps

but they figure its worth a try. Of course I hear/see

the eastbound Empire Builder leave Everett right on

time with a clear block 98% of the time at what was

5:40PM now 2:40 PM. Reason being the train has only

traveled 30 miles on a double track mainline. So the

Eastbound Empire Builder has great chance of leaving

Everett on-time. Now the Westbound Empire Builder

arrival time at Everett says 10:08AM. Well thats a start

as this train "never" is on time and this has been going on

way before any oil was discovered in North Dakota.

Chicago to Seattle 2200 miles through some tough territory

in the winter. Listening to the BNSF radio waves the past

week, No 7 can show up at noon , 1:50PM, I've heard of a

No 7 meeting No 8 at Lowell/Everett at the 2:40PM time

period. The Westbound Empire Builder really has no chance

to make the times in the schedules. As a passenger on

Amtrak trying to get some place I have no idea what

the "satisfaction level" of the Westbound Empire Builder

is...it could be very low or somehow the Amtrak crews

have learned  to "entertain the train" to the point where

there are no hard feelings for arriving late to your destination.

So June 9th 2014 Amtrak changes the Empire Builders again.

More back to what it was for 40 years..EB 5:30 PM at Everett,

WB 8:38AM. Of course all the freight trains that pass through

ND get hammered as well. Saw this article on "For Pennies A Day"

 

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,3413496



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Krinker, the Northern Transcon is a clusterfuck right now. Their biggest deal is oil trains and oil trains only. We have shit parked and tied down for 100 miles along the Staples sub. It is a very, very rare occurrence that I ever make it to the AFHT anymore. They figure as long as I get close enough for a shuttle crew to drag it in.

As far as Amtrak? No priority here anymore and the Feds are looking at that pretty harshly...

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wink Steve Inskeep brought us this David Schaper story on NPR this morning as Snippy madly navigated his way back to the office from Summit4teen:

http://www.npr.org/2014/05/19/313844233/oil-industry-blamed-for-freight-rail-delays



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The same thing is happening here in Canada. A few months ago the Feds issued an injunction ordering CP and CN to stop bypassing grain for oil shipments. Of course only HH complained, in some cases CP has bypassed their precious pot ash trains in favor of moving oil.

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Steam..let me know if you see some deliveries destined south of the Blaine
border to the Cherry Point refineries with your delicious grade of frakked
crude. Hard to see/hear when Cherry Point sends/recieves from my
vantage point. If they get in on the South Dakota oil trains then that
means 3-4 oil trains traveling the BNSF Bham "past" Burlington WA
which has sort of been the cutoff point until now but if Cherry Point
gets on the delivery list of oil trains, your are talking a single track
mainline with CTC that will be handling 8 loaded oil trains north and
8 oil trains south, 3 loaded coal trains north and 3 empty coal trains
south every day of the year plus the 3-4 each way a day of the
manifest trains with the boxcar traffic and all the locals and
4 Amtrak trains (2 each way). BNSF Everett had to foresight to
build 4 new tracks at Delta Yard known as the Marsh Tracks. Marsh
1-4 will hold a whole coal train or oil train. BNSF is now planning
I'm sure for further expansion at Delta Yard to add "Marsh 5-8 tracks".
The BNSF Bellingham Sub is going to be one of the busiest in the
future.

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If the GPT goes through to completion it will be super busy


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Sure would make Bellingham happy if Cherry Point got all their
frakken crude from Canada. That means no oiltrains going thru
Bham all day-night. Of course all those frakken oil trains have to
make their way through the metropolis of Vancouver BC on a daily
basis and pointed south. What if ARCO Cherry Point and the others
want the Brakken oil from South Dakota? The BNSF Bham Sub is
going to be more busy than capacity.

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It may get to this point some day where Delta Yard can no longer hold
trains "out". Its the MO currently that Delta Yard is chronically plugged.
Delta cant accomadate a southbound PRGEVE (Prince George-Everett)
with a 100 cars until some room is made. Well the way room is made
is one of 6-7 originating freight trains out of Everett daily to take a
couple tracks worth of cars and send them south or east..mostly south.
Then the PRGEVE can land at Delta. There is also a EDMEVE (Edmonton-
Everett) that arrives every day with a 100 cars. Then there is a NWEEVE
(New Westminster BC-Everett) that has a 100 cars. Pretty much every
day these inbound freights get "killed" on the 3 closests sidings on the
Bham Sub nearest Everett. Well this is causing some dispatching nightmares.
Listening to the scanner Thursday night I heard where the SB Amtrak
from Vancouver BC had to be talked by the signal into the siding at English
with "train already on the siding". Wait for the NB Amtrak and back out
of the siding and get going the intended direction. I think the BNSF Bham
Sub can handle extra trains/traffic if they can keep the existing sidings
clear of dead trains. This is a bad habit that needs to change.

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kind of a interresing and interactive site for you Krink..

 

http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=c60daf2b074544b1a9d337c03a0576bd&extent=-131.9209,40.4791,-106.0151,50.5263

 

Shows both what is happening today and what the future may hold....



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I'm quite sick of the oil can clusterfuck already. If you ain't running crude, your shining a siding...

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Buckethead wrote:

I'm quite sick of the oil can clusterfuck already. If you ain't running crude, your shining a siding...


 Maybe you can get into a pool of oil. 

smile



-- Edited by Snippy on Monday 26th of May 2014 09:23:01 PM

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Troll's oil can clusterfuck.....

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http://newstalkkgvo.com/montana-rail-link-train-derails-near-superior-three-cars-in-clark-fork-river-audio/

 

Montana Rail Link photoLooks like these won't be making it too your backyard uke....

 



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Nope! Probly cost MRL a few bucks tu. Still don't get why BNSF would ship 737s via MRL anyway! Must be part of that carload deal owed to 'em... Stupid as it was, it still stands.

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The MRL (ex-NP/BN) has been the route of the Boeing Hi-wide business
from Wichita KS to the GPNW since day one. More of a direct route
than anything else as the MRL has made a living hosting this traffic.

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