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| Title: |
AMTK 188 |
| Description: |
AMTK 188 zipping rapidly across the Columbia River train bridge and into the curved station platform in Vancouver as our winter sun drops below the Oregon hills in the distance on our rare treat to sunset before services (almost made the stink-eye from the beloved worthwhile since waiting for the arrival of the evening northbound passenger service put us sliding into the church parking lot just ten minutes before the top of the hour... if you want to send your condolences to her, Id be happy to pass them along... it was a little frosty by the time we arrived at church that evening. Did I mention I got the shot I wanted? (or at least close enough)) |
| Photo Date: |
1/24/2016 Upload Date: 2/12/2016 1:15:53 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 188(P42DC) |
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140 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
AMTK 188 |
| Description: |
AMTK 188 just moments before heading back out of Vancouver northbound and down away from the sunset. |
| Photo Date: |
1/24/2016 Upload Date: 2/12/2016 1:17:01 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
Signal,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 188(P42DC) |
| Views: |
71 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
AMTK 81 |
| Description: |
AMTK 81 as the second in double-headend power pair with northbound passenger consist at sunset preparing to depart from Vancouvers Amtrak Station. |
| Photo Date: |
1/24/2016 Upload Date: 2/12/2016 1:15:23 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 81(P42DC) |
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80 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 4687 |
| Description: |
BNSF 4687 lone unit at the back of a northbound string of covered hoppers in the odd-glow that is our reprieve from winter rain as she moves swiftly out the wye area and into the main yard section (the closest rail is the curving drop down into the lower yards next to United Grain behind and to the right of the photographer in this frame). |
| Photo Date: |
1/24/2016 Upload Date: 2/12/2016 1:18:15 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
Signal |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 4687(C44-9W) |
| Views: |
39 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
UP 4570 - UP 8993 |
| Description: |
UP 4570 - UP 8993 in a blink already at the end of the passenger platform preparing to duck under the Vancouver Center signal mast hauling north away from the sun. |
| Photo Date: |
1/24/2016 Upload Date: 2/12/2016 1:21:12 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
Signal |
| Locomotives: |
UP 4570(SD70M) UP 8993(SD70AH) |
| Views: |
169 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
UP 4570 |
| Description: |
UP 4570 lead on two with northbound mixed freight showing the realistic caught in the absolutely wrong place at almost the right time in the Vancouver Station / Vancouver Center as she slides along the loading platform. |
| Photo Date: |
1/24/2016 Upload Date: 2/12/2016 1:20:45 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
UP 4570(SD70M) |
| Views: |
57 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
UP 8993 |
| Description: |
UP 8993 last-of-two on a mixed freight moving north along the passenger platform at Vancouver Station in the wisps of the setting sun and long shadows thats our winter (when its not raining). Even though an Amtrak is due relatively soon, the reader board isnt lit (rarely is, because thatd be somewhat helpful for those wanting to know). |
| Photo Date: |
1/24/2016 Upload Date: 2/12/2016 1:21:37 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
UP 8993(SD70AH) |
| Views: |
140 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 4692 |
| Description: |
BNSF 4692 pulling in second on a west-to-northbound line of covered hoppers through the wye under dark and blah winter skies... but at least its not raining at the moment. |
| Photo Date: |
1/31/2016 Upload Date: 2/12/2016 1:19:08 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
BNSF 4692(C44-9W) |
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62 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 7372 |
| Description: |
BNSF 7372 pushing past a puddle and at-grade crossing from the back of a line of covered hoppers as the rain decides it might start up again along the Vancouver wye. |
| Photo Date: |
1/31/2016 Upload Date: 2/12/2016 1:19:42 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
Signal |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 7372(ES44DC) |
| Views: |
106 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 8095 |
| Description: |
BNSF 8095 at the front of double-header crossing along the northeastern limb of the wye on covered hopper duty coming out of the east in a almost missed it moment as we first pull into the station area. |
| Photo Date: |
1/31/2016 Upload Date: 2/12/2016 1:20:13 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
BNSF 8095(ES44C4) |
| Views: |
96 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
AMTK 94 |
| Description: |
AMTK 94 stopped for load/unload in her transition from westbound (from Spokane (WA) and Chicago) to southbound run. Not sure how many stations pull this, but the routine is to block the at-grade crossing with passengers unloading on the newly formed platform (before it was a trudge across uneven gravel and ballast!), keep it stopped in the crossing until cleared, then hit the gas to cross the bridge (visible right off the near prow of the station) across the Columbia River to head into Portland (Oregon). Then again, I guess you do what you have to when youre positioned at a wye junction right on the edge of a river with only one bridge available. Shed pulled in right as BNSF 6617s triple play mixed freight had come through to the immediate left of this frame to split north and into the by-pass area... and this was shot as the crossing to the east started with the sounding of approaching double-stack with BNSF 4166 (confused yet? I was - not sure where to aim the camera when - not sure how the folks do it with interlock crossings! (Maybe they have better views and dont have to rely on sound to guess whos coming from where because every direction is practically blocked for any distance). |
| Photo Date: |
2/6/2016 Upload Date: 2/24/2016 1:40:49 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Station,Signal,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 94(P42DC) |
| Views: |
82 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 4166 |
| Description: |
BNSF 4166 leading a southbound-to-eastbound transition through the wye with less than five or ten seconds of "gate up" time from the mixed freight that just came across this at-grade crossing - all while the westbound-to-southbound Amtrak came through - something not previously possible without the new by-pass lane... maybe they were onto something with that freight-vs-passenger snarl that mightve been happening, because 90° to the right of the frame, the Arriving from Spokane and Chicago is paused and preparing to take off, having arrived in the few seconds separating the gate shifts here. |
| Photo Date: |
2/6/2016 Upload Date: 2/24/2016 1:41:28 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
Signal |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 4166(C44-9W) |
| Views: |
54 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 4301 - BNSF 8085 |
| Description: |
BNSF 4301 - BNSF 8085 This pair came tearing across the bridge long-nose first and headed through the switch (the yellow on the lower left would flip to red by the next frame) while we were trying to catch our breath between all the action over the past few minutes with two freights and an Amtrak having passed through the station/wye area. Terrible thing to have crossed the bridge and forget to check the rearview mirror to ensure the load was back there. |
| Photo Date: |
2/6/2016 Upload Date: 2/24/2016 1:41:47 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
Signal |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 4301(C44-9W) BNSF 8085(ES44C4) |
| Views: |
123 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 4305 |
| Description: |
BNSF 4305 in third (and last position) on a lead three-way for westbound to northbound mixed freight coming through the wye and heading into the newly completely swirly-eastern-leg by-pass. Think maybe its rained a little around here? |
| Photo Date: |
2/6/2016 Upload Date: 2/24/2016 1:42:05 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
Signal |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 4305(C44-9W) |
| Views: |
52 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 5466 |
| Description: |
BNSF 5466 at second place out of two with south-to-eastbound double stack coming through the wye and picking up speed to get the heck out of town before the rains pick back up. |
| Photo Date: |
2/6/2016 Upload Date: 2/24/2016 1:42:21 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
Signal |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 5466(C44-9W) |
| Views: |
38 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 6617 |
| Description: |
BNSF 6617 leading a west-to-northbound transition... and preparing to make use of the new by-pass lane clearing the mains until a couple miles north of here after winding her way around the service area and north yard regions... in fact, look for the rest of the shots of her threesome at the front in the Vancouver North Yard/Sort Yard folder. |
| Photo Date: |
2/6/2016 Upload Date: 2/24/2016 1:42:38 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
Signal |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 6617(ES44C4) |
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52 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 6832 |
| Description: |
BNSF 6832 last DPU on the tail-end making the final shift to a full-fledged eastbound double stack, coming out of the north and through the wye. |
| Photo Date: |
2/6/2016 Upload Date: 2/24/2016 1:42:54 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
BNSF 6832(ES44C4) |
| Views: |
119 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 6974 |
| Description: |
BNSF 6974 first of the paired pushers (originally an usual sight for BNSF around here, more typically running three-on-the-front and one at the back, lately showing the UP two-and-two DPU technique - not sure why the change recently) on a south-to-east double-stack through the wye while Amtrak west-to-south finishes unloading. |
| Photo Date: |
2/6/2016 Upload Date: 2/24/2016 1:43:09 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
BNSF 6974(ES44C4) |
| Views: |
65 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 2674 |
| Description: |
BNSF 2674... its Sunday, and you stumble across a unit with cab glowing this bright... Im certainly not going to tell you what to believe, but Im not betting against her getting a long string of green signals when that particular engineer puts her on eight. (And to all those believers in six-axle power, I want to emphasize He has chosen a Geep... so there!) |
| Photo Date: |
2/7/2016 Upload Date: 2/24/2016 1:41:08 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
BNSF 2674(GP39-3) |
| Views: |
211 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 6869 |
| Description: |
BNSF 6869 second of two on a west-to-northbound covered hopper group crossing through the wye. |
| Photo Date: |
2/21/2016 Upload Date: 3/8/2016 1:27:40 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
BNSF 6869(ES44C4) |
| Views: |
103 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 6906 |
| Description: |
BNSF 6906 single pusher on the now northbound line of covered hoppers, the rain finally pauses just long enough to not catch a full reflection in the pond... I mean, puddle. |
| Photo Date: |
2/21/2016 Upload Date: 3/8/2016 1:27:58 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
BNSF 6906(ES44C4) |
| Views: |
96 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 5337 - BNSF 6809 - BNSF 4400 - BNSF 6194 - BNSF 5908 - BNSF 7529 - BNSF 1924 |
| Description: |
BNSF 5337 - BNSF 6809 - BNSF 4400 - BNSF 6194 - BNSF 5908 - BNSF 7529 - BNSF 1924 what a line-up of power as the Vancouver Center - Wye - Station greeting party. If my fingers and toes dont fail me, thats pushing almost 30,000 horses on what looks like it might be a mixed freight, but then again, it might be a freighter shifting from westbound to northbound, likely into the by-pass run-around-the-yards track. |
| Photo Date: |
6/1/2016 Upload Date: 7/28/2016 1:45:12 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
BNSF 5337(C44-9W) BNSF 6809(ES44C4) BNSF 4400(C44-9W) BNSF 6194(ES44AC) BNSF 7529(ES44DC) BNSF 1924(SD40-2) |
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343 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 6809 |
| Description: |
BNSF 6809 second of seven... and Ill spare you my efforts to image this lash-up, which I dutifully did, all while trying not to get arrested, because she strung back into no-mans-land, which put me up against so many No Trespassing signs and waving to so many video surveillance cameras, I was very glad the better-half wasnt with me. Instead, look in the Felida, WA folder where I managed to accidentally catch the entire show passing through a meet-and-pass forty-five minutes later when on a lark, I drove down to the local moorage on the way back home having caught so little my first half-hour of train hunting. In fact, we can head over to the folder now, because thats my next stop of the day anyway. |
| Photo Date: |
6/1/2016 Upload Date: 7/28/2016 1:45:50 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
BNSF 6809(ES44C4) |
| Views: |
102 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
AMTK 117 - AMTK 136 |
| Description: |
AMTK 117 - AMTK 136 at the front of the evening northbound passenger service to Seattle with the setting sun glinting off her windscreen. |
| Photo Date: |
6/12/2016 Upload Date: 7/28/2016 2:26:59 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 117(P42DC) AMTK 136(P42DC) |
| Views: |
94 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
AMTK 117 - BNSF 1504 |
| Description: |
AMTK 117 - BNSF 1504 - Well, we wouldve got there in time to see AMTK 117 pull into the station... except BNSF 1504 that you see poking her nose up and parked on the incline up to the mains and southern main yard at Vancouver Center has her load stretched out behind her trailing down into the old lower yard and blocking the at-grade crossing back near NW Pack and the official entrance to United Grain - and my usual path to get to the station. Eh, I guess Im here now, so stop complaining. |
| Photo Date: |
6/12/2016 Upload Date: 7/28/2016 2:26:36 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 117(P42DC) BNSF 1504(GP28M) |
| Views: |
79 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
AMTK 136 |
| Description: |
AMTK 136 looking a little scruffy in second place for a double front-end passenger consist ready to hop out of Vancouver Station and haul north. |
| Photo Date: |
6/12/2016 Upload Date: 7/28/2016 2:27:19 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 136(P42DC) |
| Views: |
71 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 6705 |
| Description: |
BNSF 6705 single pusher for a northbound line of covered hoppers currently parked in the by-pass lane shows that while we were dodging and U-turning to avoid blocked crossings, a grain train slid through the wye to shift from westbound to northbound. |
| Photo Date: |
6/12/2016 Upload Date: 7/28/2016 2:27:40 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
BNSF 6705(ES44C4) |
| Views: |
155 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
AMTK 60 |
| Description: |
AMTK 60 short-stuff consist out of Chicago, Spokane, and all points east curving into the southern platform in Vancouver and her nose pointed into an occupied track on the Columbia River train bridge. Turns out, the red in her lane and green on the southern/eastern rail means shell kick it into reverse in a few moments, back back-around the corner she just arrived in back behind those blue warehouses, switch over, then proceed forward once again to pass on the correct open / green lane. |
| Photo Date: |
7/28/2016 Upload Date: 9/1/2016 4:42:50 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 60(P42DC) |
| Views: |
68 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
AMTK 60 |
| Description: |
AMTK 60... take two... now on the open lane and preparing to head around the curve and onto the bridge. |
| Photo Date: |
7/28/2016 Upload Date: 9/1/2016 4:43:14 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 60(P42DC) |
| Views: |
56 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 2112 |
| Description: |
BNSF 2112 holding under morning sun on bridge-tender duty protective services just off the Vancouver Amtrak Station platform. |
| Photo Date: |
7/28/2016 Upload Date: 9/1/2016 4:42:21 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
BNSF 2112(GP38AC) |
| Views: |
223 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 7249 |
| Description: |
BNSF 7249 single pusher behind the three at the front with autorack rounding the southern Amtrak platform that was occupied a few moments earlier with the Chicago-West Coast Amtrak after the quick change-a-roo of lanes. |
| Photo Date: |
7/28/2016 Upload Date: 9/1/2016 4:44:06 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
BNSF 7249(ES44DC) |
| Views: |
113 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 7910 |
| Description: |
BNSF 7910 triple-header autorack shifting from northbound to eastbound coming across the Columbia River train bridge, the recently departed Amtrak barely a cloud of exhaust in the neighboring lane now in Oregon. |
| Photo Date: |
7/28/2016 Upload Date: 9/1/2016 4:43:38 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
Bridge |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 7910(ES44DC) |
| Views: |
75 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 2088 |
| Description: |
BNSF 2088 idling with her sister on bridge protection duty beside the Vancouver Amtrak Station... wish I could figure out where that "fancy GPS location identifier" button is, because I appear to have hit it for this shot... see? You can tell exactly what city I shot it in: "Vancouver, WA," right there inserted on the picturesque lamp-post. Now if only I could find the "locate nearest train" button, Id be all set. |
| Photo Date: |
9/10/2016 Upload Date: 10/4/2016 2:56:10 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
BNSF 2088(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
155 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 2832 |
| Description: |
BNSF 2832 trailing twin in a quiet little rumble on the mini bridge protection spur under clear blue skies, just off the station deck areas. |
| Photo Date: |
9/10/2016 Upload Date: 10/4/2016 2:55:39 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
BNSF 2832(GP39M) |
| Views: |
218 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 2752 |
| Description: |
BNSF 2752... speaking of which, even with contrast kicked up 40%, theres no denying shes orange. The last image I have of her is from just under a year ago - the day after Christmas 2015 - and shes unmistakably green in that shot. |
| Photo Date: |
12/21/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:56:49 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CSX 4405(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
172 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 2752 |
| Description: |
BNSF 2752 after all the commotion has cleared out the platform... and Im climbing back into the car when a little tingle of thawed brain cell fires reminding me to snap a quickie picture... just in case I need this unit, even though it seems sort of familiar (see note above about "orange not green"). |
| Photo Date: |
12/21/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:57:23 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
BNSF 2752(GP39E) |
| Views: |
331 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 2767 |
| Description: |
BNSF 2767 coming out of the Columbia River turn-style bridge and fog long-nose first with local freight interchange. (Please tell me having waited for nearly forty minutes for the distant lights that were this set was worth it - because it was below freezing, the wind was howling - and because of the fog, I kept *hearing* trains coming through the westbound-to-northbound wye just a hundred or two yards away - but couldnt see a licking thing not wanting to get out of position for when this one finally chose to come across the river (actually, if it wouldve been clear, I wouldve accused the folks sitting over in Vancouver Center to have been looking down the track at the idiot freezing his butt off at the end of the Amtrak Station platform... but, ha! I fooled them! My stubby little fat fingers had frozen solid an hour ago... the additional pain was minimal... I think... or was it just the dead and frozen brain cells?) |
| Photo Date: |
12/21/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:57:05 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
Bridge |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 2767(GP39E) |
| Views: |
183 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 4044 |
| Description: |
BNSF 4044 fourth of five in the penta-power set stopped - possibly frozen on the rails - although Im pretty sure its just the wind chill making me unable to feel my fingers as I near the end of the p`atform closest to the river. |
| Photo Date: |
12/21/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:55:59 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
BNSF 4044(C44-9W) |
| Views: |
26 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 7296 |
| Description: |
BNSF 7296 showing up at third in the power holding set with rapidly freezing fingers with the gorge winds making the freezing temperatures seem even colder. |
| Photo Date: |
12/21/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:55:44 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
BNSF 7296(ES44DC) |
| Views: |
91 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 8080 and BNSF 2752 |
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BNSF 8080 and BNSF 2752 as seen after stepping down the platform a dozen or two yards and looking back shows how after just five power units, things start to disappear into the freezing fog. What I cant figure out is how the wind can be howling through the area *with* fog - I thought they were supposed to be mutually exclusive. |
| Photo Date: |
12/21/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:56:30 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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| Locomotives: |
BNSF 8080(ES44C4) BNSF 2752(GP39E) |
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BNSF 8080 |
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BNSF 8080 as the figth unit of five in the northbound shuffle... and the 24mm lens gives you a false sense of the weather situation... |
| Photo Date: |
12/21/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:56:15 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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| Locomotives: |
BNSF 8080(ES44C4) |
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BNSF 8124 - BNSF 7787 |
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BNSF 8124 - BNSF 7787 lead pair popping out of the fog and charging across the Columbia River from foreign trackage back to home territory in a power shuffle returning to home. |
| Photo Date: |
12/21/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:54:56 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
Bridge |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 8124(ES44C4) BNSF 7787(ES44DC) |
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88 Comments: 0 |
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AMTK 44 and AMTK 818 |
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AMTK 44 shooting into Vancouver before I can fully get into position - so this is completely camera angle - we didnt get *that* much snow. And the wonderful "fast" (sarcasm marks) Sony manages to miss every one of the AMTK 818 (odd - this is the number on the starboard side partially visible in several frames - yet the following week, I have 189 as the number two unit - albeit the second unit does switch which end is facing north - just found it interesting... too bad "I" missed all the shots) just off her aft section (yes - I know I can set it up to shoot 10 frames in about 2 seconds... but the recovery time after doing that is so huge, you learn quickly NOT to do it because itll process each of the images and display them (and I have my chimp mode set to off/zero) so even snapping two or three frames, not the entire ten results in five to ten seconds of camera down time - not that I just love my Sony (moderate sarcasm marks) camera - but, uh, dang - did Canon really have me that spoiled?) - northbound double header passenger service making a super-fast stop in Vancouver before quickly accelerating away before I can even get around the corner and into the station to try and snag some additional power shots. |
| Photo Date: |
1/15/2017 Upload Date: 2/7/2017 8:31:04 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
Winter,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 44(P42DC) AMTK 818(P40DC) |
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104 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 1746 |
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BNSF 1746 golden hues of a rusty sunset through smog and crud glint off the relatively new-fallen snow near the bridge crew spur as the late afternoon/early evening Amtrak rushes past her coming to a quick stop in Vancouver. |
| Photo Date: |
1/15/2017 Upload Date: 2/7/2017 8:31:22 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
Winter |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 1746(SD40-2) |
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198 Comments: 1 |
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BNSF 2935 |
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BNSF 2935 southern sister of the bridge-protection pair with setting sun glinting off her nose, small drifts sit happily upon her brow as we enjoy a day of sun - vague proof there really is something above the clouds. (And the Sony *almost* got it in focus/adequate sharpness: 1/1000s f3.5 28mm equivalent ISO 125 - but I emphasize - at that speed and this close to the subject at that tiny of a lens zoom - I wouldnt expect anything less than practically *everything* being in actual sharp focus - not "almost.") |
| Photo Date: |
1/15/2017 Upload Date: 2/7/2017 8:31:39 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
Winter |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 2935(GP39E) |
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143 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 4320 |
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BNSF 4320 dappled sun streaks between buildings back into the slot between warehouses where the east-west BNSF line turns into the southern terminus of the north-south mains at Vancouver Center, second of two at the front of a westbound-to-northbound line of covered hoppers - presumed to be soybean headed to Canada. |
| Photo Date: |
1/15/2017 Upload Date: 2/7/2017 8:32:11 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
Winter |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 4320(C44-9W) |
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BNSF 5240 |
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BNSF 5240 leader on a double-header at the crew-exchange point coming off westbound traffic to swing to the north with a line of covered hoppers extending back away from sunset and onto the Columbia River run approach (blocked from view by the warehouse arcing around to starboard aft). |
| Photo Date: |
1/15/2017 Upload Date: 2/7/2017 8:31:56 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
Winter |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 5240(C44-9W) |
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34 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
AMTK 44 |
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| Photo Date: |
1/22/2017 Upload Date: 2/13/2017 3:29:24 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 44(P42DC) |
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64 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
AMTK 189 |
| Description: |
AMTK 189 in second pulling position on northbound passenger duty. |
| Photo Date: |
1/22/2017 Upload Date: 2/13/2017 3:29:57 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 189(P42DC) |
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88 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
AMTK 44 - AMTK 189 |
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AMTK 44 - AMTK 189 with barely enough time to jog down the length of the platform and get into position, the sun chooses that moment to crack through the smallest of openings down beloK the horizon to give a little color to the clouds against the deep blue shadows of early evening moments before this pair rushes off to the north. |
| Photo Date: |
1/22/2017 Upload Date: 2/13/2017 3:29:40 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 44(P42DC) AMTK 189(P42DC) |
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79 Comments: 0 |
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