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Action on POTB

Author: jimv

Date: 02-19-2010 - 17:46

Very pleasant suprise as I was off roading it on a beautiful day today, between Timber and Cochran in the Oregon Coast Range. The one spot the road goes along the old SP Tillamook branch, about 3.5 miles from Timber, there was a headlight not more than 50 yards down the track. I stopped in the middle of the road and watched POTB (x-BN) 6164 SD9 with a log car, a flat car with log loader and a ballast car, move toward Timber.
As I got through to Cochran I noticed no rail traffic had been there for quite a time. Some ties on the 'Main' are still washed out, halfway in the air.
My guess is that they are backing the train as far as they can go, working on the track and removing some trees along the way. I caught the train again at Timber, tied up for lunch and a log pile along side the tracks.
I don't know how the 6164 got in this location.
Also curious as to why they have trucked 5-6 covered hoppers to Manning and rerailed them there. There was a truck air testing them today. There is still quite a string of stored chip hoppers between Manning and Banks.

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Subject	Written By	Date/Time (PST)
Action on POTB	jimv	02-19-2010 - 17:46
Re: Action on POTB	PNWR1853	02-19-2010 - 18:20
Re: Action on POTB	Joshua Kind	02-19-2010 - 20:48
Re: Action on POTB	Jesse	02-20-2010 - 18:50
Re: Action on POTB	Jesse	02-20-2010 - 18:54
Re: Action on POTB	$$$	02-21-2010 - 19:32

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jimv Wrote:
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> Very pleasant suprise as I was off roading it on a
> beautiful day today, between Timber and Cochran in
> the Oregon Coast Range. The one spot the road goes
> along the old SP Tillamook branch, about 3.5 miles
> from Timber, there was a headlight not more than
> 50 yards down the track. I stopped in the middle
> of the road and watched POTB (x-BN) 6164 SD9 with
> a log car, a flat car with log loader and a
> ballast car, move toward Timber. 
> As I got through to Cochran I noticed no rail
> traffic had been there for quite a time. Some ties
> on the 'Main' are still washed out, halfway in the
> air.
> My guess is that they are backing the train as far
> as they can go, working on the track and removing
> some trees along the way. I caught the train again
> at Timber, tied up for lunch and a log pile along
> side the tracks.
> I don't know how the 6164 got in this location.
> Also curious as to why they have trucked 5-6
> covered hoppers to Manning and rerailed them
> there. There was a truck air testing them today.
> There is still quite a string of stored chip
> hoppers between Manning and Banks.

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