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    Question about damaged Amtrak Locos

    Bruce, thanks for the info. I was thinking it was in Montana.
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    Question about damaged Amtrak Locos

    I'm trying to find some information on 2 AMTK locomotives. In January 2000, AMTK #89 and #831 were spotted on flatcars in the Seattle area. Both locomotives were damaged in a derailment. The Diesel Shop.com does not have any details listed. Does anyone remember the details of the derailment...
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    Loram Rail Grinder in Skykomish

    A rail grinder has been in Skykomish for over a week now. There is a new Skykomish railcam on You Tube, I don't have an account to post replies, but you can see the grinder on the railcam. I was talking to the foreman this morning and he told me they are getting it ready to start grinding...
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    Columbia Basin Railroad question

    I was in Eastern WA last weekend, and I went thru Warden. Does anyone know when the Columbia Basin RR operates? I found out they do not run on weekends. When do they go to Wheeler, or Othello? I assume they go to Connell at night. Here is the power tied up in Warden. -KristopherJ
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    Does anyone know what this rail line is?

    Well cars on the EWG A few weeks ago we were in Eastern Washington traveling along US2. I noticed well cars parked everywhere. I saw them at Almira, Hartline, Cement. Are the bad-orders or just a bunch of excess cars waiting for containers business to pick up? -KristopherJ
  6. 513 along Puget Sound

    513 along Puget Sound

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    • Category: Amtrak and other US Passenger Trains
  7. 1011 at Pioneer

    1011 at Pioneer

    A private car is on the rear of the Coast Starlight.
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    • coast pioneer puget sound starlight
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    • Category: Amtrak and other US Passenger Trains
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    BNSF track projects, WA State 2014

    I was thinking the same thing when I saw it, I wonder what the south end looks like? Somewhere in this thread, or some other thread, I thought somebody said all new turnouts were to be #24s. That would make the speed 50 for passenger trains. I wonder if it was done this way because eventually...
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    BNSF track projects, WA State 2014

    After visiting Tacoma, I stopped in Auburn (Washington) to check out the new 3rd main. This first photo is looking south. It was taken from the south end of the platform at the Auburn Sounder Station. On the left is the old NP Auburn Yard, and the wye to head over Stampede Pass. Looks link...
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    Coast Starlight question

    Thanks for the links Bruce. -Kristopher Johnson
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    Coast Starlight question

    Can anyone tell me, the time period of when #11/#14 changed over to Superliner equipment? Was it before 1981? Or was it shortly after? Thank you, Kristopher Johnson
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    BNSF track projects, WA State 2014

    Saturday there was a loaded ribbon-rail train at Gold Bar, where is the new rail going? -KristopherJ
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    BNSF track projects, WA State 2014

    Here is a video of the RM-80-800. After watching it, I now know (or think I do) what the hi-rail backhoe was doing. They were digging out the ballast to get the tool under the track. http://www.plasseramerican.com/en/machines-systems/ballast-bed-cleaning-rm-80-800.html -KristopherJ
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    BNSF track projects, WA State 2014

    Photo7: A close-up view of the slot train being filled up. Photo8: The rest of the MoW crew follows behind the undercutter. Photo9: A ballast train dumps ballast from Everett Jct. eastward. After the ballast got dumped I left. As I was leaving the DS was telling the...
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    BNSF track projects, WA State 2014

    Photo4: The bad ballast is sent up the conveyor belt. It was making a large mount in from of the machine. Photo5: A head-on wedge-view of the machine in action. Photo6: As the undercutter got closer to where the Hi-Line and Low-Line converge at Everett Jct, there was no room to...
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    BNSF track projects, WA State 2014

    Undercutter at work On Friday (3-21-2014) I found the undercutter working the Scenic Subdivision between Everett Jct. and the old depot on the Hi-Line. Work started after 1007 passed and ended when the Sounders arrived. Photo1: the equipment moves up Main 2 from MP31 to Everett Jct...
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    New Talgo Train Sets

    Amtrak Mt. Hood Mt. Olympus WSDOT Mt. Adams Mt. Baker Mt. Rainier
  18. Eastbound leaves Skykomish

    Eastbound leaves Skykomish

    After meeting Amtrak 7, an eastbound Z train departs Skykomish.
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    • Category: Western United States
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    Scenic Sub Slides

    http://www.king5.com/news/BNSF-Railway-has-plans-to-mitigate-land-slide-risks--202392101.html This was on KING5 last night. -KristopherJ
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    Scenic Sub Slides

    I wondered that as well. I figured he ment M1, M2 and whatever the track next to M1 is called. Or the news media doesn't know how to quote someone properly. -KristopherJ




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