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  1. Ballard Beaver

    BNSF track projects, WA State 2014

    Any update on the status of the bypass in Vancouver? Thanks!
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    funny things you've heard the dispatcher say

    Also around here they used to refer to the amtrak as the "silver sausage" or "chrome chorizo" though i havent heard them say this in at least a year or two. As in, crew: "you gonna hold us here dispatcher?" Dispatch: "yup, i got sausages comin at you from all directions"
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    funny things you've heard the dispatcher say

    I always liked when the old BNSF seattle terminal guy would give his initials as TCM "trains cant move"
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    BNSF track projects, WA State 2014

    Cool update BNSFEng, thank you!
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    NS #8114 in Puget Sound area

    nice catch...this train has been through town a few times, usually on oil trains it seems how could you tell it was empty? wondering if it wasnt a load headed to arco or fidalgo?
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    BNSF track projects, WA State 2014

    thanks for all the insights, Mark. always appreciated.
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    BNSF track projects, WA State 2014

    more questions mark...you had to expect em... :) is the sumas sub just regular maintenance? or is there a plan to increase traffic on that line? and with english, is this just a result of the increased oil traffic? they just built the 4 marsh tracks in the last year or so, for parking the...
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    question on grain trains in washington

    in response to bill anderson, see my post here http://www.railroadforums.com/forum/showthread.php?34464-Stampede-Pass-Diary&p=334356#post334356
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    question on grain trains in washington

    empty interbay grainer left interbay southbound around 20:30, Oct 3rd. that was quick!
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    question on grain trains in washington

    thanks for the response. part of what i was wondering is, well, the grain is already flowing from the midwest to the ports...but it is only tacoma and seattle in particular that are getting NONE. grain trains are headed to pasco, rivergate, longview, kalama, vancouver, and the psap, but nothing...
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    question on grain trains in washington

    looks like there has been an increase in grain trains the last couple weeks...harvest time. grain has been going to rivergate (pdx), vancouver, kalama, longview, as well as to the PSAP. however, NONE to seattle or tacoma. ZERO. why is this? i know that they were doing maintenance to these...
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    Puget Sound & Pacific opertions.

    i know i am not the orig poster, but i am interested too...thanks for the info! for clarification, "simpson" and "road train" are different trains? where exactly do they go? the road train "comes into town"...from where? centralia? which train goes to hoquiam? does it come out of shelton, or...
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    Comment by 'Ballard Beaver' in media 'Caboose Comeback?'

    i saw this caboose leave pasco Friday June 26 around 11 AM, on the pasco-klamath falls manifest train.
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