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Brownsville-Everett Run

Author: almo

Date: 08-29-2007 - 23:21

Of the few trains caught in the last couple of days, The BNSF southbounds have been a little long. In fact, one I had caught yesterday was 122 cars (roughly 6200').

For those who know the area, I was driving on South Fraser Way crossing Old Yale Road, noticed a train on the CN interchange track. Kept driving south to Tannery Road, and noticed the train was as far down the tracks as I could see, into Brownsville. I kept driving to Elevator Road, and turned to go across the tracks there. I was parked on the west side of the tracks to await the train that was about 600' away from me. It was moving about 15-20mph (had a CSX GEVO unit in the consist) and throttled up out of the industrial area. I think it was a Brownsville-Pasco train, but I cant be certain-and I was in awe to the length of it. Lots of tank cars and SRY boxcars.

Have any of the sidings been extended on the line?

Thanks,
almo

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Subject	Written By	Date/Time (PST)
Brownsville-Everett Run	almo	08-29-2007 - 23:21
Re: Brownsville-Everett Run	Ross Hall	08-30-2007 - 17:21
Re: Brownsville-Everett Run	Bruce Bennett	08-30-2007 - 17:47
Re: Brownsville-Everett Run	Charley Chambers	08-31-2007 - 06:10
Re: Brownsville-Everett Run	Ross Hall	08-31-2007 - 16:48
Re: Brownsville-Everett Run	almo	08-31-2007 - 23:31
Re: Brownsville-Everett Run	Charley Chambers	09-02-2007 - 06:26
Re: Brownsville-Everett Run	almo	09-05-2007 - 21:16

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almo Wrote:
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> Of the few trains caught in the last couple of
> days, The BNSF southbounds have been a little
> long. In fact, one I had caught yesterday was 122
> cars (roughly 6200'). 
> 
> For those who know the area, I was driving on
> South Fraser Way crossing Old Yale Road, noticed a
> train on the CN interchange track. Kept driving
> south to Tannery Road, and noticed the train was
> as far down the tracks as I could see, into
> Brownsville. I kept driving to Elevator Road, and
> turned to go across the tracks there. I was parked
> on the west side of the tracks to await the train
> that was about 600' away from me. It was moving
> about 15-20mph (had a CSX GEVO unit in the
> consist) and throttled up out of the industrial
> area. I think it was a Brownsville-Pasco train,
> but I cant be certain-and I was in awe to the
> length of it. Lots of tank cars and SRY boxcars.
> 
> Have any of the sidings been extended on the
> line?
> 
> Thanks,
> almo

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