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| Title: |
Loaded Coal Trains Wait in the Early Morning Light |
| Description: |
Our day started in Pasco's Grain yard were loaded Coal Trains are held before proceeding West again. From here they will back into the Pasco West yard, reverse direction to cross the Columbia River and Head West to Portland. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/2010 Upload Date: 4/4/2010 4:55:29 PM |
| Location: |
Pasco, WA |
| Author: |
Stephen Fuchs |
| Categories: |
Roster,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 5738(ES44AC) BNSF 5808(ES44AC) BNSF 5833(ES44AC) BNSF 8957(SD70MAC) |
| Views: |
719 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Crossing the Big River |
| Description: |
The radio started to crackle while at the Grain yard so we hustled down to the river to catch this Manifest just entering Pasco. The sun is just rising and it is going to be a good day! |
| Photo Date: |
4/3/2010 Upload Date: 4/4/2010 5:06:23 PM |
| Location: |
Pasco, WA |
| Author: |
Stephen Fuchs |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 717(C44-9W) BNSF 5374(C44-9W) BNSF 4390(C44-9W) |
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498 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 2925 Switches the Richland Local |
| Description: |
This engine was working with 2728 |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/2010 Upload Date: 4/4/2010 4:51:10 PM |
| Location: |
Richland, WA |
| Author: |
Stephen Fuchs |
| Categories: |
Roster,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 2925(GP39E) |
| Views: |
393 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 2728 Switches the Richland Local |
| Description: |
Mark wanted to show me Tri-Cities Railway and on the way BNSF was doing some switching |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/2010 Upload Date: 4/4/2010 4:47:01 PM |
| Location: |
Richland, WA |
| Author: |
Stephen Fuchs |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 2728(GP39-2) |
| Views: |
345 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
TCRY.s MP15 AC sits Quietly At Their Shops in Richland |
| Description: |
This engine must be the poster child for the Horn and Light Package people! |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/2010 Upload Date: 4/4/2010 6:00:20 PM |
| Location: |
Richland, WA |
| Author: |
Stephen Fuchs |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
TCRY 16(MP15AC) |
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268 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Freshly Painted 31 sits at TCRY Richland Shops |
| Description: |
You could almost smell the paint. An employee came and fired her up, there was visibly very little exhaust |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/2010 Upload Date: 4/4/2010 6:04:07 PM |
| Location: |
Richland, WA |
| Author: |
Stephen Fuchs |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
TCRY 31(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
324 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
TCRY 25 |
| Description: |
25 is special to me in that as a boy of 10, I sat next to the tracks often. Colorado and Southern's 832, now TCRY 25, passed my way on occation. I never imagined that what I saw 1965-70 would again be so close by. 25 is a Phase IV SD 9. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/2010 Upload Date: 4/4/2010 6:13:30 PM |
| Location: |
Richland, WA |
| Author: |
Stephen Fuchs |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
TCRY 25(SD9) |
| Views: |
285 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Not As Far Along in the Painting Process and Un-Numbered |
| Description: |
This SD40-2 is was Un-Numbered at the time of the picture. Note the painting difference between it and 31! |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/2010 Upload Date: 4/4/2010 6:09:27 PM |
| Location: |
Richland, WA |
| Author: |
Stephen Fuchs |
| Categories: |
Roster |
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146 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Meet at Kiona |
| Description: |
Eastbound empty grainer X-KALCLF 9-23 Meets Westbound Manifest M-PasVBT-24 at Kiona. If traveling North (west) in I-82, exit at Benton City, duck under the interstate to Webber Road. Follow Webber until you see Kiona. We see the Westbound's head light in this picture |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/2010 Upload Date: 4/4/2010 5:20:40 PM |
| Location: |
Kiona, WA |
| Author: |
Stephen Fuchs |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 4867(C44-9W) BNSF 4990(C44-9W) BNSF 5434(C44-9W) BNSF 1061(C44-9W) BNSF 1003(C44-9W) BNSF 4991(C44-9W) |
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770 Comments: 5 |
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| Title: |
M-PASVBT-24 West of Gibbon |
| Description: |
After the Meet at Kiona, Mark and I returned to I-82 and proceeded West from Benton City. If careful, one can view most of these vistas between Benton City and Prosser from the interstate. You can just see the Yakima River behind the rear portion of the train. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/2010 Upload Date: 4/4/2010 5:39:41 PM |
| Location: |
Gibbon, WA |
| Author: |
Stephen Fuchs |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 5434(C44-9W) BNSF 1061(C44-9W) BNSF 1003(C44-9W) BNSF 4991(C44-9W) |
| Views: |
638 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Small Rock Slide Occur as 5434's train passes near Gibbon |
| Description: |
5434 leans into the curve oblivious to the rolling dust back aways! In the upper left, one can see the bridge at the start of the Columbia Basin RR |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/2010 Upload Date: 4/4/2010 5:48:13 PM |
| Location: |
Gibbon, WA |
| Author: |
Stephen Fuchs |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 5434(C44-9W) BNSF 1061(C44-9W) BNSF 1003(C44-9W) BNSF 4991(C44-9W) |
| Views: |
562 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Following the Yakima River Valley between Benton City and Prossser |
| Description: |
Just turning my camera from where the rock slide was occurring, reveals more of the valley's fruit orchards. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/2010 Upload Date: 4/4/2010 5:55:36 PM |
| Location: |
Gibbon, WA |
| Author: |
Stephen Fuchs |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 5434(C44-9W) BNSF 1061(C44-9W) BNSF 1003(C44-9W) BNSF 4991(C44-9W) |
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596 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SD40-2's on the Pasco-Yakima Turn at Wapato |
| Description: |
On another day, we see the Pasco-Yakima Turn heading North to Yakima. Maybe 10 miles left to go! |
| Photo Date: |
4/3/2010 Upload Date: 4/4/2010 6:28:35 PM |
| Location: |
Wapato, WA |
| Author: |
Stephen Fuchs |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 6812(SD40-2) BNSF 6814(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
397 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
M-PASVT-24 Enters the Yakima River Canyon Under Ever Present Mt Adams |
| Description: |
We skipped ahead to Pomona to wait and were rewarded with this beautiful vista |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/2010 Upload Date: 4/4/2010 6:20:10 PM |
| Location: |
Pomona, WA |
| Author: |
Stephen Fuchs |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 5414(C44-9W) BNSF 1061(C44-9W) BNSF 1003(C44-9W) BNSF 4991(C44-9W) |
| Views: |
537 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
Snaking along the Yakima at Hillside |
| Description: |
The views here are wonderful and I have to resist uploading every picture of the canyon! |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/2010 Upload Date: 4/4/2010 6:24:38 PM |
| Location: |
Hillside, WA |
| Author: |
Stephen Fuchs |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 5434(C44-9W) BNSF 1061(C44-9W) BNSF 1003(C44-9W) BNSF 4991(C44-9W) |
| Views: |
419 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 4745 Leads an empty Grain trainThrough a cut near the Yakima River Dam |
| Description: |
I hiked out to the point on the canyon wall, this day without my radio, it was a pleasant to have a train pass. |
| Photo Date: |
4/3/2010 Upload Date: 4/4/2010 6:32:44 PM |
| Location: |
Hillside, WA |
| Author: |
Stephen Fuchs |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 7478(ES44DC) BNSF 742(C44-9W) BNSF 668(C44-9W) |
| Views: |
711 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Straignt Down! |
| Description: |
Shot from the same point as the last shot, only |
| Photo Date: |
4/3/2010 Upload Date: 4/4/2010 6:36:40 PM |
| Location: |
Hillside, WA |
| Author: |
Stephen Fuchs |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 4745(C44-9W) BNSF 742(C44-9W) BNSF 668(C44-9W) |
| Views: |
578 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 4745, 742 and 668 Eastbound in Yakima Canyon |
| Description: |
One Hundred and Eighty degrees from the last two shots, this would be a wonderful with at Westbound!! |
| Photo Date: |
4/3/2010 Upload Date: 4/4/2010 6:40:13 PM |
| Location: |
Hillside, WA |
| Author: |
Stephen Fuchs |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 4745(C44-9W) BNSF 742(C44-9W) BNSF 668(C44-9W) |
| Views: |
625 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
M-PASVT-24 near Hillside |
| Description: |
There are so many great shots here, thanks to the road being high on the canyon wall! |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/2010 Upload Date: 4/4/2010 6:48:59 PM |
| Location: |
Hillside, WA |
| Author: |
Stephen Fuchs |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 5434(C44-9W) BNSF 1061(C44-9W) BNSF 1003(C44-9W) |
| Views: |
516 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
What a Beautiful Canyon! |
| Description: |
This is a great photo location but watch traffice, there is not parking without walking. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/2010 Upload Date: 4/4/2010 6:45:16 PM |
| Location: |
Roza, WA |
| Author: |
Stephen Fuchs |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 5434(C44-9W) BNSF 1061(C44-9W) BNSF 1003(C44-9W) BNSF 4991(C44-9W) |
| Views: |
409 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Bridge Near Umtanum, Upper Yakima River Canyon |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
3/24/2010 Upload Date: 4/4/2010 7:09:31 PM |
| Location: |
Umtanum, WA |
| Author: |
Stephen Fuchs |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 5414(C44-9W) BNSF 1061(C44-9W) |
| Views: |
457 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 5414 Exit the Yakima River Canyon at Thrall |
| Description: |
Thrall is where the track exit the confines of the canyon, There is a Thrall Road Exit on I-82, just a few miles from Ellensburg. So this is easy to access. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/2010 Upload Date: 4/4/2010 7:16:23 PM |
| Location: |
Thrall, WA |
| Author: |
Stephen Fuchs |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 5414(C44-9W) BNSF 1061(C44-9W) BNSF 1003(C44-9W) BNSF 4991(C44-9W) |
| Views: |
698 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Next Stop-Ellensburg- Just a Few Miles |
| Description: |
The snow-capped Cascade Peaks show what's in store for M-PASVBT-24 on Stampede! This is the last shot, although in Ellensburg, we did not get a picture. Now....I suppose the snow will keep me away from Stampede for a while! |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/2010 Upload Date: 4/4/2010 7:21:37 PM |
| Location: |
Thrall, WA |
| Author: |
Stephen Fuchs |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 5414(C44-9W) BNSF 1061(C44-9W) BNSF 1003(C44-9W) BNSF 4991(C44-9W) |
| Views: |
471 Comments: 0 |
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