Unit Oil Train in the Gorge

[Cliffs]

W/B through Maryhill, WA about 11:20. I didn't catch the lead locomotive number.

About 100 new shiny tank cars with a buffer car at each end. 2 + 2 power.

Should be passing through Vancouver, WA about 14:30. I expect it will make its way north from there to Anacortes.

 

[Damon Hill]

Looks like that train passed through Auburn, without stopping, at 7:15 this evening. Didn't see the whole thing, but the cans I saw looked real shiny.

Don't recall many unit oil cans passing through these parts.

 

[CuestaGrader]

Yup,

Got the Unit Oil train today at Stevensen. Great shot for this westbound move of this.


CuestaGrader OUT.

 

[SP&SFan]

U EPPFTE0 01T (Epping, ND to Fidalgo, WA)
Passed Cut Bank, MT 9/2/12 at 10:41AM

BNSF 4518
BNSF 4955

DPU:
BNSF 5312
BNSF 681

101 cars, 13596 tons and 6208 feet.


SP&SFan

 

[Pilawt]

That was 4518 on the point. This morning I was flying back from Idaho by way of the Snake and Columbia rivers, and passed the train near Finley. I stopped for fuel at Hermiston, then passed it again at Paterson.

 

[Cliffs]

Shall we flip a coin for the return route over the Cascades?

Stevens or Stampede?

 

[Pilawt]

Not the best image, but here's the head end of that train from about 1200' above.

 

[Cliffs]

Here comes another one. Past MP-120 on the Fallbridge about 14:40. Lead unit is the 5007.

 

[Trainfanne54]

Nice pics.

 

[GE Power]

There was one in Auburn Yard this afternoon (10/1). Presumably the same one.

 

[Jon Bentz]

I caught a SB empty in Marysville on Wednesday. Every car in the train had either an 02-12 or 03-12 built date.

1. 7606 leads SB oil empty's in Marysville.

2. Tanks, tanks, tanks rolling through Bridge 38.

 

[GE Power]

Cool pictures, Jon.

That is really a sight to see, isn't it. Some how much more impressive than just a string of coal or grain hoppers. Almost sinister looking.

 

[Jon Bentz]

Thanks John. Yeah - very different - and it smelled like crude.