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Re: New BNSF Fort Worth - PNW Intermodal Train Hits the MRL
Author: Pdxrailtransit
Date: 09-18-2016 - 21:55
BN Oly Wrote:
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> Interesting that this train is going bia the PRB.
> In years past when the BN ran PNW to TX intermodal
> the train ran via the PRB line ( i think as the
> only non-coal train) and later was displaced to
> the Wind River line as coal volumes forced it
> away. I wonder with the decline in coal traffic
> if the wind river line will be spun off and the
> small through freight volumes it sees shifted to
> the PRB.
I used to see BN Houston-Seattle trains 90 and 91 on the Orin cutoff back in the 80s.
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> Interesting that this train is going bia the PRB.
> In years past when the BN ran PNW to TX intermodal
> the train ran via the PRB line ( i think as the
> only non-coal train) and later was displaced to
> the Wind River line as coal volumes forced it
> away. I wonder with the decline in coal traffic
> if the wind river line will be spun off and the
> small through freight volumes it sees shifted to
> the PRB.
I used to see BN Houston-Seattle trains 90 and 91 on the Orin cutoff back in the 80s.
