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BNSF 1560 |
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BNSF 1560 in local sort duty - and it seems a new little yard girl that we havent got on sensor before now. |
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12/23/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:35:16 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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BNSF 1560(SD38P) |
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BNSF 4480 |
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BNSF 4480 at second pulling position of the lead pair on this line of covered hoppers held up below the 39th Street bridge - and I while I have a better picture of the power, I thought this one had more local character and interest. (Oh, I think in my previous entry I was supposed to list all the positions this series was taken from: under the western end of the 39th Street Over-Pass, on the northeast BNSF spur road off to the north of the 39th Street Over Pass, and the blackberry bushes on the Lake Shore/Fruit Valley Road over-pass, with the early introductory shot from the west side of the bridge (where you can see the empty double stack snake away)... that should cover the major vantage points - just in case you wanted to put the dot on the local maps to replicate the shots... oh, and I guess I prowled around the top of the 39th Street Over Pass some, but, honestly, the wind up there is just nasty-cold, so I dont hang around long up there.) |
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12/23/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:34:19 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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BNSF 4480(C44-9W) |
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BNSF 5890 |
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BNSF 5890 leading a northbound oil can through the parking lot of various trains - and since I mentioned the under-the-over-pass position, heres the view to the southeast... a nice place to be during the rain, although the wind makes it so you often have to stand out in the open to stay dry (if that makes sense, since the rain is falling semi-horizontal not straight down). |
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12/23/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:35:37 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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BNSF 5890(ES44AC) |
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BNSF 6197 |
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BNSF 6197 placing second slot at the front of the fast-freight unit train of oil pipeline on rails with fake sun lighting up the clouds behind her... I resisted the urge to paint in a happy little smiling face sun - when it appears in the "Visit Vancouver" brochure, though, Im sure theyll have it in there along with a blue-sky wash (which if you havent seen the new Anthropics Landscape Pro software, its a little scary... check it out, they have a free demo and its just wrong. Super fun to play with, but you feel all dirty after using it (by the way, I was one of the original members of "Found View" long ago when there was a huge ("Yuge!") dust-up over "But its not *real*!" with the appearance of digital cameras for the masses and when "Photoshopped" was actually a dirty word (which is why I use PaintShop... well, actually because Im a cheap ___... but still.) |
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12/23/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:37:32 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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BNSF 6197(ES44AC) |
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| Title: |
BNSF 6370 |
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BNSF 6370 pusher behind a northbound line of covered hoppers paused in the new-old passing lane along Fruit Valley Road... and come to find out, not all covered hoppers through here are empties on the return-trip back to the northern route to our breadbasket... apparently we get a fair number of soybean trains running through here headed to Canada/"The Other" Vancouver (BC). |
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12/23/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:32:24 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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BNSF 6370(ES44AC) |
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BNSF 6975 with BNSF 1560 - BNSF 60 |
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BNSF 6975 lead on empty double-stack well-car duo still held up with BNSF 1560 - BNSF 60 now visible in the north yard ladder having pulled their mixed freight through... the oilcan is actually still rumbling under foot in this snap because I got over here quicker than usual and the idle is more calm than normal... so the CREX shot above actually happens in another few seconds (chronological? Whats that? Oh - it has "logical" in the word. Nope, dont know nuthin bout that.) |
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12/23/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:38:56 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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BNSF 6975(ES44C4) BNSF 1560(SD38P) BNSF 60(TEBC6) |
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| Title: |
BNSF 7678 |
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BNSF 7678 in second... and unless youre the lead elephant, the scenery never changes - currently northbound with chain of covered hoppers dripping to the rear. |
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12/23/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:33:32 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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BNSF 7678(ES44DC) |
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| Title: |
BNSF 8046 |
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BNSF 8046, at the front of a northbound duo with more covered hoppers, stopped nearly under the 39th Street over-pass in a close-stack directly on the tail of the northbound line of empty double-stack cars a hundred yards off her nose (BNSF 6975 group). (And with all the flipping/changing views, you get the idea I popped back-and-forth between several locations this particular morning, but when editing images, I work through them by how they first appear on sensor, even if they appear later - then the chosen shot is out of time sequence... unless you count the very FIRST appearance... well, unless Im trying to complete an entire train before moving on or an organizing view, or if youre still reading, "Gosh, its really sort of a random mish-mash depending on how little room I have in my short term memory in an effort to edit only one shot of each unit for posting, so whatever works as I bounce between CompuPic, PaintShopPro(4.1!), and this text file." There - Ive listed everything - *Now* can I deduct it from taxes?) |
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12/23/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:33:58 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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BNSF 8046(ES44C4) |
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| Title: |
BNSF 8291 - BNSF 7678 with BNSF 6975 |
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BNSF 8291 - BNSF 7678 at the front of that line of northbound covered hoppers with BNSF 6975 holding in the new passing/by-pass lane at the north end of the north ladder yard on well-car return duty - and it appears everyone is in "Hurry Up and Wait" mode. As a side note: "Yes, it is as wet, cold, and miserable and it looks. With wind." |
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12/23/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:32:58 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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BNSF 8291(ES44C4) BNSF 7678(ES44DC) BNSF 6975(ES44C4) |
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| Title: |
BNSF 8291 |
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BNSF 8291 on point paused in the passing lane with covered hopper consist. |
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12/23/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:33:15 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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BNSF 8291(ES44C4) |
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| Title: |
CREX 1429 |
| Description: |
CREX 1429 pusher on the oil can coasting north as she passes under the 39th Street Over Pass (just off her nose you can see the sloping road on the northeast side of the bridge where I take more pictures from as it provides access to the north yard). Speaking of oddities - sometimes (rarely) if they have a yellow or red, and you leave the car running, you can snap this picture, then... |
| Photo Date: |
12/23/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:38:05 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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CREX 1429(ES44AC) |
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| Title: |
CREX 1429 |
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CREX 1429 as she leaves the north yard area to begin the curve along Vancouver Lake headed up toward the Felida Crossing north of here (taken from the Lake Shore - Fruit Valley Road over-pass... and extremely rare that theres absolutely no traffic (automobile) to get in your way because it has to be completely clear between the previous shot and this one to make your way between the two - *and* definitely a coasting consist thats slowing down / idling north, not set to Run.) |
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12/23/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:38:26 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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CREX 1429(ES44AC) |
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| Title: |
UP 2711 - UP 7796 |
| Description: |
UP 2711 - UP 7796 tracks still warm to the starboard side from the oil can, passing BNSF 8291 held up in the passing lane. |
| Photo Date: |
12/23/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:39:12 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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UP 2711(ET44AH) UP 7796(AC45CCTE) BNSF 8291(ES44C4) |
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| Title: |
UP 5546 - UP 9042 BNSF 8291 - BNSF 7678 BNSF 6975 - BNSF XXX, with local yard pair BNSF 1560 - BNSF 60 |
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UP 5546 enters the mess a half hour later... catching you up to speed... starting at the left, stopped in the old-new passing lane is the northbound covered hopper train ( BNSF 8291 - BNSF 7678 ), while UP 5546 - UP 9042 sound bound mixed freight charges hard into the mix, angry exhaust is from an unknown/unimaged coal-drag lead pair behind the red on the main line, while the northbound mixed freight "crew change" (in the Vanc Misc folder: BNSF 8160 - NS 9909 - BNSF 5965) is stopped in the wiggle onto the main choking down everything else (Im presuming crew change had to happen north of the yard (curving out of the frame to the port side / east of the approaching UP) because there was no way to get through the stopped northbound double-stack and northbound covered hopper group piled up all on the new by-pass tracks) - the tailend of the triple-header northbound mixed freight visible to the right of the frame, then comes the empty line of well-car duo BNSF 6975 - BNSF XXX, with local yard pair BNSF 1560 - BNSF 60 stuffed out at the end (light visible from BNSF 60). And I think that does it. |
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12/23/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:42:02 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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Yard,Signal,Action |
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BNSF 60(TEBC6) BNSF 1560(SD38P) BNSF 6975(ES44C4) BNSF 7678(ES44DC) BNSF 8291(ES44C4) UP 9042(SD70AH) UP 5546(AC45CCTE) |
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| Title: |
UP 5546 - UP 9042 |
| Description: |
UP 5546 - UP 9042 southbound mixed freight now at the south side of the 39th Street Over pass and trying to get out of the land of confusion at BNSF north yard. |
| Photo Date: |
12/23/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:42:44 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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UP 5546(AC45CCTE) UP 9042(SD70AH) |
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| Title: |
UP 7796 |
| Description: |
UP 7796 in second place, nose far from the empty line-up of garbage can double-stacks behind... including a tailend group of gondolas. Speaking earlier of the blackberry vines, there they are! |
| Photo Date: |
12/23/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:39:35 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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UP 7796(AC45CCTE) |
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| Title: |
UP 8046 - UP 8374 |
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UP 8046 - UP 8374 shoot below the Fruit Valley - Lake Shore Drive over-pass pushing north with line-up of double-stack and gondola garbage scows, "freshly" emptied down in Arlington, Oregon most likely. |
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12/23/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:40:21 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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UP 8046(AC45CCTE) UP 8374(SD70ACe) |
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| Title: |
UP 8374 - UP 8046 passing BNSF 8291 - BNSF 7678 |
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UP 8374 - UP 8046 pushing pair brought to you by garbage scow smell-o-vision passing BNSF 8291 - BNSF 7678 pulling pair on covered hopper line-up in the passing lane - all going north. |
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12/23/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:40:05 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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UP 8374(SD70ACe) UP 8046(AC45CCTE) BNSF 8291(ES44C4) BNSF 7678(ES44DC) |
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| Title: |
UP 9042 |
| Description: |
UP 9042 in second place with southbound mixed freight leaving the Vancouver area in a few moments when she gets around the corner and steps onto the Columbia River bridge. (And I think that does it for the eve of Christmas eve... dang, talk about confusing for an old guy having jumped back and forth for an hour or more through various spots around the north ladder yard.) |
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12/23/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:43:09 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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UP 9042(SD70AH) |
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| Title: |
BNSF 1526 |
| Description: |
BNSF 1526 sitting in second, going in reverse in a little power shuffle with an odd make-up between the middle and north yards... and you can quit squinting - its just Christmas season in the Pacific Northwest... fog. |
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12/28/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:44:26 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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BNSF 1526(GP28M) |
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| Title: |
BNSF 1874 |
| Description: |
BNSF 1874 third (and going in reverse) under the signal tree between yards with the 39th Street Overpass in the foggy distance. Nice to see some classic livery still puttering around the yards. |
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12/28/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:44:43 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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BNSF 1874(SD40-2) |
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| Title: |
BNSF 4077 - BNSF 5631 - BNSF 4658 |
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BNSF 4077 - BNSF 5631 - BNSF 4658 triple-header with northbound line of covered hoppers somewhere fading off in the yuck... and it only looks like its cold, wet, and miserable. Actually its cold, wet, miserable, *and* foggy. And thats enough freezing for the day. Happy dang December. |
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12/28/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:45:21 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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BNSF 4077(C44-9W) BNSF 5631(AC44CW) BNSF 4658(C44-9W) |
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| Title: |
BNSF 4658 |
| Description: |
BNSF 4658 sitting as two-of-two ready to lead a covered hopper consist north out of Vancouver. |
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12/28/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:43:51 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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BNSF 4658(C44-9W) |
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| Title: |
BNSF 5631 |
| Description: |
BNSF 5631 front of two with northbound line of covered hoppers in more rain and fog. |
| Photo Date: |
12/28/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:43:30 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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BNSF 5631(AC44CW) |
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| Title: |
BNSF 604 |
| Description: |
BNSF 604 fourth, and last, and biggest, in the power shuffle... and covering the CREX unit behind her exactly, not just hidden in the fog. |
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12/28/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:45:01 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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BNSF 604(C44-9W) |
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| Title: |
CREX 1435 |
| Description: |
CREX 1435 ready as pusher at the back of the hurry-up-and-wait covered hopper group in the passing lane. |
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12/28/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:44:09 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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CREX 1435(ES44AC) |
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UP 7524 |
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UP 7524, lone pusher on northbound double stack trying to sneak by as we were headed up the hill to church - where we dodged off and behind some homes on a side road to catch the last visible train in whats left of the supposed light of 2016... I guess not too bad for the new little Sony pocket snapper in a panning shot in the dark in an attempt to zoom down the hill and across the width of the north ladder yard. Happy New Year, everyone. |
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12/31/2016 Upload Date: 1/7/2017 2:45:42 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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UP 7524(AC45CCTE) |
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| Title: |
BNSF 3186 |
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BNSF 3186 (GP25-2 by the stamp on her nose) in a unique position of power behind her two bigger sisters (and one rent-a-sis) at the front of a northbound mixed freight swirling through the twists-and-turns that is the new by-pass lane in Vancouver. |
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1/2/2017 Upload Date: 2/7/2017 8:19:03 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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BNSF 3186(GP50) |
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BNSF 4054 |
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BNSF 4054 as two-of-four (well, maybe 3½) at the front of a snow-tinged mixed freight in the by-pass transition lane from westbound to northbound just to the south of the 39th Street over-pass with her bottom partway under the bridge (nothing like a creative crop). |
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1/2/2017 Upload Date: 2/7/2017 8:18:21 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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BNSF 4054(C44-9W) |
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BNSF 4449 |
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BNSF 4449 with hints of snow on the walkways and front guard at the lead of a northbound mixed freight holding below the 39th Street over-pass in the new by-pass lane. (I guess itll be new until another new one can take its place and finally push things forward yet again). |
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1/2/2017 Upload Date: 2/7/2017 8:18:04 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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BNSF 4449(C44-9W) |
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BNSF 6111 - CSX 7785 - CSX 7727 auto-rack on hold being passed (in reverse) by BNSF 2339 |
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BNSF 6111 - CSX 7785 - CSX 7727 auto-rack on hold being passed (in reverse) by BNSF 2339 working the yard in Vancouver. New Year, new rumor? Does this mean CP couldve buy/merge the CSX group, so maybe Warren will? Sorry - Im still not giving up my BnsF (the NS being an obvious and easily integrated set of initials) rumor... although broken record has nothing on me. |
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1/2/2017 Upload Date: 2/7/2017 8:16:46 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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CSX 7785(C40-8W) CSX 7727(C40-8W) BNSF 2339(GP38-5) |
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BNSF 6111 |
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BNSF 6111 on point for a threesome southbound auto-rack holding in the new-old passing lane along Fruit Valley road through the middle and north sections of Vancouver Center ladder yard - the two mains to her port side. |
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1/2/2017 Upload Date: 2/7/2017 8:17:01 PM |
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Vancouver, WA |
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B Campbell |
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CREX 1333 - BNSF 3186 |
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CREX 1333 - BNSF 3186 last pair of the four at the front of a northbound mixed freight - just because Im always in awe of just how huge those 4400s really are - yet as they trundle past on crossings and in the distance, you never get a chance to slow down and really take a good hard look at the monsters - so nuzzled nose-to-nose with a Geep just has to tickle something inside. (Too bad the grand designer ordered crap lighting for the day... eh, I guess its not raining, even if it is dark and miserable.) |
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1/2/2017 Upload Date: 2/7/2017 8:19:23 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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CREX 1333(ES44AC) BNSF 3186(GP50) |
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| Title: |
CREX 1333 |
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CREX 1333 in at third position on the front four in the ladder yard by-pass lane holding up with a mixed freight now going northward. |
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1/2/2017 Upload Date: 2/7/2017 8:18:44 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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CREX 1333(ES44AC) |
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| Title: |
CSX 7727 |
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CSX 7727 butt-to-the-south in last place of three, but still in the money, with southbound autorack set. Sorry for the extraneously generous lower third of the frame crop, but bumpers never get their due, so had to include one just for kicks to start the year off right. |
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1/2/2017 Upload Date: 2/7/2017 8:17:41 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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CSX 7727(C40-8W) |
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| Title: |
CSX 7785 |
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CSX 7785 middle of three at the front of an autorack ready to head south through Vancouver - and itd be a pity if CSX is bought out/merged before she can issue Chessie heritage engines (I know - Ive violated sacred oaths, since heritage should be B&O, C&O, WM, etc. - but there was something about the yellow Chessie scheme that was just neat to see - not to mention, retaining the registries was neat so you could believe, vaguely, the B&O et al still existed. (What do you mean Im just a ray of sunshine at parties? (That would entail me being invited to one in the first place. Go figure.))) |
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1/2/2017 Upload Date: 2/7/2017 8:17:19 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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CSX 7785(C40-8W) |
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| Title: |
BNSF 4078 |
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BNSF 4078 at the front of a northbound double-header (and double-hinder... double-butter? Dual posterior? (Oh, DPU. Never mind.) (Not to mention, this is the head/front end of this discussion... it only seems like the cold numbs the... that thing... on top your head... dang, knew I shouldve worn a hat.)) line of covered hoppers - which apparently could be empties, soybean, or potentially wheat (last less likely as United Grain export terminal is a few miles to the rear of this consist). |
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1/5/2017 Upload Date: 2/7/2017 8:19:47 PM |
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Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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BNSF 4078(C44-9W) |
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BNSF 5057 |
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BNSF 5057 second from the end on pusher detail awaiting a clear, or a crew, or the sun to finish rising - after a month of little or no sun, Id figure just about everyone and everything around these parts is sort of taking it slow for a few minutes of bright-light joy. |
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1/5/2017 Upload Date: 2/7/2017 8:21:06 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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BNSF 5057(C44-9W) |
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BNSF 7164 - BNSF 5057 |
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BNSF 7164 - BNSF 5057 DPU at the rear of a northbound line of covered hoppers as the sun crests the hill behind us... that glowing orange-yellow thing that makes the day seem warmer than it really is - especially as we had doubts about the existence of that thing called sun - although wed heard rumors for the past month or so, but to actually observe it first hand was rather remarkable. (I believe the steam is from our local propane/natural gas electricity generating plant on Lower River Road - turns out, we cant get everything from the dams and hydroelectric, but not for lack of trying... at least when theres not discussion about breaching the dams so the fish can migrate easier.) |
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1/5/2017 Upload Date: 2/7/2017 8:20:27 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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BNSF 7164(ES44C4) BNSF 5057(C44-9W) |
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BNSF 7164 |
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BNSF 7164 at the tailend of a covered hopper group holding up in the passing lane - as we spend a few more minutes enjoying the sun. |
| Photo Date: |
1/5/2017 Upload Date: 2/7/2017 8:20:47 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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BNSF 7164(ES44C4) |
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116 Comments: 1 |
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BNSF 798 |
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BNSF 798 in at second place leading a mile of covered hoppers north... at least as soon as a semi-clear signal lets them out of their passing line hold on this particular cold morning. |
| Photo Date: |
1/5/2017 Upload Date: 2/7/2017 8:20:06 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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BNSF 798(C44-9W) |
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BNSF 8048 |
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BNSF 8048 in the second pulling position at the front of a northbound string of covered hoppers in the by-pass lane, just to demonstrate the distance back from the signal this consist stopped... because even the lead engine is a little south of the typical number two unit stopping point during rain, clouds, and miserable weather - but Im sure its an optical illusion... about like my mental hang-up in not going to the other side of the over-pass to snap the picture, because for two at the front theyre always on the north side of the over-pass. (Always... Except on sun days.) (Dang - now I cant get the stupid song out of my head... "but never on a...") |
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1/5/2017 Upload Date: 2/7/2017 8:21:57 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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BNSF 8048(ES44C4) |
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113 Comments: 0 |
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BNSF 9261 |
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BNSF 9261 at the front of another covered hopper dynamic duo, this one held up on the new by-pass lane... which I guess would mean soybean in the hoppers? Headed to Canada if I heard the rumors right... and is it me, or did he pull up short just to keep the cab in the sun? Im sure its just my imagination... giving a bit of a buffer before the signal... thats it. |
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1/5/2017 Upload Date: 2/7/2017 8:21:33 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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BNSF 9261(SD70ACe) |
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BNSF 1406 |
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BNSF 1406 sporting snowy accents in fifth and final position of me missing a colorful power shuffle moving north out of Vancouver screeching to a stop along Fruit Valley Road under stormy skies. |
| Photo Date: |
1/8/2017 Upload Date: 2/7/2017 8:22:26 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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BNSF 1406(SD60M) |
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198 Comments: 1 |
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BNSF 513-(?) - UP 3849(?)- BNSF 708 - BNSF 1828 - BNSF 1406 |
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BNSF 513-(?) - UP 3849(?)- BNSF 708 - BNSF 1828 - BNSF 1406 in a cool color combination where unfortunately I was two minutes too late packing the new camera (meaning clarity of image optional! Nope - still not making progress with this darn Sony poor-excuse-for-a-camera... if anyone from Sony would like to contact me, Id be happy to discuss things and let them prove to me Im doing something wrong - because my partially broken Canon SX260 is still out-shooting the Sony hands down for image quality). Power shuffle headed north and away from the lens... sniff. |
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1/8/2017 Upload Date: 2/7/2017 8:23:01 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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Signal |
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UP 3849(SD70M) BNSF 708(C44-9W) BNSF 1828(SD40-2) BNSF 1406(SD60M) |
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287 Comments: 1 |
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BNSF 708 |
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BNSF 708 three-of-five (war bonnet) quickly accelerating north under yellow in a fruit basket of color headed out of Vancouver under dark and gloomy skies... and rain... when its not trying to snow. |
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1/8/2017 Upload Date: 2/7/2017 8:22:44 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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Signal |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 708(C44-9W) |
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74 Comments: 1 |
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BNSF 1599 - BNSF 2925 |
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BNSF 1599 - BNSF 2925 local yard pair in the north ladder yard sitting under the setting sun amidst the snow... which will end up being only a taste of total snow fall for January, while the local PNWR continues to quickly trundle forward approaching the 39th Street over-pass and my side of the bridge. |
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1/15/2017 Upload Date: 2/7/2017 8:24:32 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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Winter,Yard |
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BNSF 1599(SD40-2) BNSF 2925(GP39E) |
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257 Comments: 0 |
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BNSF 3882 |
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BNSF 3882 second from the tailend of dynamic dual pushers holding in the layer of snow before continuing north with a mile of covered hoppers off her nose - Canada ho! |
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1/15/2017 Upload Date: 2/7/2017 8:23:51 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
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BNSF 3882(ET44C4) |
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91 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF 5975 - BNSF 3882 |
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BNSF 5975 - BNSF 3882 DPU holding up in the passing lane with northbound string of covered hoppers. Thatll teach me to complain about the rain and make snarky comments about our one day of sun. |
| Photo Date: |
1/15/2017 Upload Date: 2/7/2017 8:23:33 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
Winter |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 5975(ES44AC) BNSF 3882(ET44C4) |
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99 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
PNWR 2306 - PNWR 2317 - PNWR 2314 |
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PNWR 2306 - PNWR 2317 - PNWR 2314 local trio from the sunny south making their way past the middle ladder yard of Vancouver Center to reach the northern end where theyll snag the local mixed freight and return to Portland. (for the photographically inclined - "Yes, the vertical crop looks aesthetically much more pleasing." - but I wanted all three units in the frame... and having no time to run across a hazardous road in this weather crud, well, "You get what you get, and you dont throw a fit.") |
| Photo Date: |
1/15/2017 Upload Date: 2/7/2017 8:24:14 PM |
| Location: |
Vancouver, WA |
| Author: |
B Campbell |
| Categories: |
Winter |
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PNWR 2306(GP39-2) PNWR 2317(GP39-2) PNWR 2314(GP39-2) |
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111 Comments: 0 |
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