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Re: New BNSF Fort Worth - PNW Intermodal Train Hits the MRL
Author: ex-BN
Date: 09-19-2016 - 13:06

Pdxrailtransit Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> BN Oly Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > 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.


Or maybe 91 and 92? That's what they were west of Laurel.

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Subject Written By Date/Time (PST)
  New BNSF Fort Worth - PNW Intermodal Train Hits the MRL Pdxrailtransit 09-17-2016 - 12:19
  Re: New BNSF Fort Worth - PNW Intermodal Train Hits the MRL George Andrews 09-18-2016 - 09:04
  Re: New BNSF Fort Worth - PNW Intermodal Train Hits the MRL Pdxrailtransit 09-18-2016 - 10:19
  Re: New BNSF Fort Worth - PNW Intermodal Train Hits the MRL BN Oly 09-18-2016 - 20:02
  Re: New BNSF Fort Worth - PNW Intermodal Train Hits the MRL Pdxrailtransit 09-18-2016 - 21:55
  Re: New BNSF Fort Worth - PNW Intermodal Train Hits the MRL ex-BN 09-19-2016 - 13:06
  Re: New BNSF Fort Worth - PNW Intermodal Train Hits the MRL Tom McCann 09-18-2016 - 22:06
  Re: New BNSF Fort Worth - PNW Intermodal Train Hits the MRL Pdxrailtransit 09-19-2016 - 01:52
  Re: New BNSF Fort Worth - PNW Intermodal Train Hits the MRL Bruce Kelly 09-19-2016 - 06:47
  Re: New BNSF Fort Worth - PNW Intermodal Train Hits the MRL George Andrews 09-19-2016 - 18:54
  Re: New BNSF Fort Worth - PNW Intermodal Train Hits the MRL ORP 09-20-2016 - 10:26


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