SE-WA November

This train just came off the W&I

Double, Single, FRED and Single dupe

I love the set-up of the H1-H2-H3 leaders on the right

This will be the fifth train stashed in the yard prior to heading for Portland, Longview, and/or Kalama.

Crossing Hwy397/Oregon Ave.

Waiting, along Hwy 240, for the TCRY crew to finish at LambWeston

Nice to see the EMDs out numbering the GEs, this time.

The Dash-9's are shoving a grainer out of the Grain Yard past a lowly SW.

First pics of this unit on RRPA. Originally a Tex-Mex unit but came from HLCX off the Arizona & California.

Yup, BNSF bought this unit (well traded SWs 3408/3446/3452/3454 for it and another GP60 #168)

Still not enough for a good picture

The automatic hot-start caught me by surprise.

The lite power heads to the Walla-Walla lead from the Mains

What Pasco could have looked like years ago, other than the road numbers

New local power for Pasco?

Originally a Tex-Mex unit built to NS specs, to Helm, to Vermont Railways (Clarendon & Pittsford), then HELM and ARZC

A mix of equipment can up from California, as seen behind the 2185

The sunset casts an orange glow about the service area filled with H2 painted locomotives

PHL/ BNSF(ATSF)/ BNSF(HLCX-VTR)/ UP(SP)

Notice the other former GE inthe background

The hostlers pulled the set out of the fuel racks to set the PHL unit out with some other BNSF units and left the 75 and 60 together

Originally Tex-Mex, then HLCX, then Vermont Railways, back to Helm and then to ARZC

Passsing the old NP tool sheds

Second EB entering the yard at dusk

Industry Switch JobD

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2011/11/08/1709306/derailment-near-big-pasco-spills.html

BNSF Tool car

BNSF caboose on the repair/wreck train

Three of the wrecked runaway cars are moved off to the side

Two of seven derailed runaways

Several cars of the 46 runaways froma 80-car train at the hump

Doesn't look all that bad, the GP60 leader and the tanks took the brunt of the damage

The remnants of the switch job that was struck head on by the runaway cars

Several tankers carried ethanol (1987), one spilled about 10k gallons

Wonder if they'll fix it with a bent frame at both ends.

I wanted more pictures of this unit, but not like this.