Re: UP Military Trains
Author: theconductor
Date: 04-06-2010 - 23:17
OPRRMS Wrote:
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> Don Wrote:
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> > Union Pacific has had three lengthy northbound
> > trains carrying military equipment pass through
> > Klamath Falls Ore. this last week. Flat cars
> with
> > armored vehicles and transport/cargo carriers.
> > Anyone have any information on their origin or
> > destination?
>
> Believe what you saw were Fort Irwin (Barstow) to
> Fort Lewis (Washington) movements. Handled by UP
> from Yermo to Portland, then interchanged to
> BNSF.
OPRRMS is correct. We have been taking them to the Lake Yard and leaving the trains. The BNSF brings their own power and finishes the journey to Tacoma.