Railroadforums.com is a free online Railroad Discussion Forum and Railroad Photo Gallery for railroaders, railfans, model railroaders and anyone else who is interested in railroads. We cover a wide variety of topics, including freight trains, passenger and commuter railroads, rail news and information, tourist railroads, railway museums and railroad history.


Prev
Gravity Drop at Lynden, WA
Next
Prev
Behind the Glamour part 3
Behind the glamour
Waiting on My Train
Gravity Drop at Lynden, WA
(In) The caboose
Interested spectators
Next

Gravity Drop at Lynden, WA

Brakeman Ken Royal rides the cut while brakeman Algee Baldwin mans the switch while doing a gravity drop at Lynden, WA in April of 2002.

Lynden is located in NW WA near the Canadian Border. It is at the end of an 11 mile branch off of BNSF's Sumas Subdivision. These cars are going to the Darigold plant to be loaded with butter. Job RWE4191 services this line on an as needed basis (about 2 times a week). There isn't room to run around the cars so that is the reason for the drop.

This branch was part of The Milwaukee Roads branch from Bellingham to Sumas WA. It was bought by the BNSF when The Milwaukee Road abandoned their lines West of Miles City, MT in 1980.
Click to expand...
B
So that's how they do that move in Lynden. I always wondered about that. Neat picture! Moo
 

Media information

Category
Human Interest Photos
Added by
Date added
View count
4,215
Comment count
3
Rating
0.00 star(s) 0 ratings

Share this media




Affiliate Disclosure: We may receive a commision from some of the links and ads shown on this website (Learn More Here)

Back
Top