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It's not every day you see an Amtrak train being pulled by a freight engine. Amtrak 7, the Empire Builder is being pulled into Seattle by BNSF 5233 on February 26, 2017.
Howdy,
So it looks like the BNSF is hiring at Interbay in Seattle for a Crane/Equipment Operator/Stocker. Can anybody expand on what exactly this job entails, in a little more real-world detail than the job announcement? Like, what is the work typically in a day, how are the benefits, how...
December 31, 2016, New Year's Eve, and it's 34 degrees outside. Down to the waterfront I go intending to catch the Empire Builder and the Cascades 513. These aren't very interesting, but I was fortunate enough to catch a stack train.
I have an amazing view of the Space Needle from my apartment...
Coming off the BNSF Bellingham Subdivision in Washington, is the Anacortes Spur which goes west to Anacortes, WA. The primary traffic for this spur are oil trains bringing crude from the Bakken formation in North Dakota, to the refineries in Anacortes. There are usually two trains per day; one...
Enjoy this video of UP and BNSF trains passing through Binney Junction in California. This is a major junction between the Union Pacific's North-South Valley Subdivision to Dunsmuir, and the Sacramento Subdivision to Oroville and eventually the Feather River Canyon.
Been cold an cloudy around here, but that's not always a bad thing.
12/17/2016
1. Love this scene at Abel on the Sioux City Sub. Something about the trees and grass mixed with the snow really do it for me.
2. Just north of Abel, also on the Sioux City Sub
3. West of Ashland on...
A cold and rainy November day along the Seattle waterfront yields two interesting trains. First is BNSF 4270, an old GB B23-7 originally built for the AT&SF, leads a short manifest train through the North Portal. It appears to be recently repainted in BNSF colors. Also interesting in this...