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Viewing Album:  Leap Year in Seattle
 
By:Maddie Farnsworth
Dates:2/29/2008 - 3/2/2008
Album Info:for the weekend of February 29 through March 2 I spent the weekend in Seattle, not just railfaning of course, but how could I say no?
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Mudhole
Title:  Mudhole
Description:  A rather muddy switch for a main line, at MP 1.77.
Photo Date:  2/29/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 7:20:56 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories:  Track
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Views:  546   Comments: 0
Garbage train
Title:  Garbage train
Description:  The first sighting of the weekend, a empty garbage train heads north with three SD40-2s
Photo Date:  2/29/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 7:22:01 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 6795(SD40-2) FURX 8129(SD40-2) BNSF 6313(SD40u)
Views:  1428   Comments: 0
Roof shot
Title:  Roof shot
Description:  A overhead view of the three SD40-2s leading the garbage train.
Photo Date:  2/29/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 7:23:42 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 6795(SD40-2) FURX 8129(SD40-2) BNSF 6313(SD40u)
Views:  1346   Comments: 0
Red flags
Title:  Red flags
Description:  BNSF was doing some maintenance at this spot, the northbound main was out and trains had to stop and call the dispatcher to get permission to proceed past North Porthole.
Photo Date:  2/29/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 7:25:59 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories:  Signal,Track
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Views:  503   Comments: 0
Stopped in the shadows
Title:  Stopped in the shadows
Description:  A north bound train is stopped, waiting for permission to proceed.
Photo Date:  2/29/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 7:27:32 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 5295(C44-9W)
Views:  874   Comments: 1
Huh?
Title:  Huh?
Description:  A cop on a horse is the LAST thing i expected to see in Seattle.
Photo Date:  2/29/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 7:28:09 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  505   Comments: 2
Past owners
Title:  Past owners
Description:  The crossing signal electrical boxes show a mix of ownership over the years.
Photo Date:  2/29/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 7:29:08 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories:  Signal
Locomotives: 
Views:  453   Comments: 1
The Stinky Side of Railfanning
Title:  The Stinky Side of Railfanning
Description:  A south bound loaded garbage train negotiates the crossover at North Porthole.
Photo Date:  2/29/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 7:32:10 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  FURX 8127(SD40-2) BNSF 2543(GP35u) BNSF 7132(SD40-2)
Views:  1381   Comments: 2
Crossing over
Title:  Crossing over
Description:  The garbage train, with the Seattle Skyline in the background.
Photo Date:  2/29/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 7:33:30 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  471   Comments: 0
North manafest
Title:  North manafest
Description:  North and south bound trains were using opposite tracks that day, because of MOW.
Photo Date:  2/29/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 7:44:41 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 5295(C44-9W) BNSF 4120(C44-9W) BNSF 1076(C44-9W) BNSF 5087(C44-9W)
Views:  1422   Comments: 0
MOW
Title:  MOW
Description:  A ballast train heads south, with some interesting power.
Photo Date:  2/29/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 7:47:00 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 8066(SD40-2)
Views:  903   Comments: 0
Power on ballast train
Title:  Power on ballast train
Description:  There was a GP60M in the consist, and I didnt realise this untill I got back home and uploaded the pictures.
Photo Date:  2/29/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 7:48:34 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 8066(SD40-2) BNSF 160(GP60M) BNSF 7155(SD40-2)
Views:  1569   Comments: 1
Stacker
Title:  Stacker
Description:  A stack train heads north as clouds roll in.
Photo Date:  2/29/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 7:50:15 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 4318(C44-9W) FURX 7276(SD40-2) FURX 7217(SD40-2) BNSF 6962(SD40-2) BNSF 6841(SD40-2)
Views:  1612   Comments: 0
Woah!
Title:  Woah!
Description:  Three ex BN SD40s on a stack train? Cool!
Photo Date:  2/29/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 7:51:01 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 4318(C44-9W) FURX 7276(SD40-2) FURX 7217(SD40-2) BNSF 6962(SD40-2) BNSF 6841(SD40-2)
Views:  1628   Comments: 1
North Porthole
Title:  North Porthole
Description:  The stack train takes teh crossover as anothe ballast train waits in the distance.
Photo Date:  2/29/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 7:51:52 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
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Views:  459   Comments: 0
What.......?
Title:  What.......?
Description:  this guy had the dumbest look on his face when he realized that he couldn't get across a moving train.
Photo Date:  2/29/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 7:53:12 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
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Views:  695   Comments: 1
MOW #2
Title:  MOW #2
Description:  Another ballast train heads south.
Photo Date:  2/29/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 7:53:55 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 2719(GP39-2)
Views:  801   Comments: 0
BN white face
Title:  BN white face
Description:  10 years ago, this is the only paint scheme I would have seen here.
Photo Date:  2/29/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 7:55:01 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 2883(GP39M)
Views:  891   Comments: 1
Railfanning in Seattle
Title:  Railfanning in Seattle
Description:  Trying for an artistic approach, (and to cut out a fence in the bottom of the picture), BNSF 4823 rests at the terminal 86 grain silos after being the DPU on a north bound grain train.
Photo Date:  2/29/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 7:15:36 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 4823(C44-9W)
Views:  883   Comments: 0
Seattle Tunnel
Title:  Seattle Tunnel
Description:  The tunnel under downtown Seattle, apply named. Yes, thats a puddle on a main line railroad. Makes me wounder where all that ballast I saw headed south was going.
Photo Date:  3/1/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 7:56:54 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories:  Track
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Views:  488   Comments: 0
South bound stacker
Title:  South bound stacker
Description:  Another stack train.
Photo Date:  3/1/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 7:57:48 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 4730(C44-9W) BNSF 8153(SD60M) BNSF 4868(C44-9W) BNSF 555(B40-8W) BNSF 7126(SD40-2)
Views:  1771   Comments: 0
BN SD60M
Title:  BN SD60M
Description:  Im mad that this came out fuzzy, but this is the first ex BN SD60M that I have seen.
Photo Date:  3/1/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 8:00:56 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BNSF 8153(SD60M) BNSF 4868(C44-9W) BNSF 555(B40-8W) BNSF 7126(SD40-2)
Views:  1932   Comments: 0
BNSF has the best power
Title:  BNSF has the best power
Description:  A ex ATSF dash 8 behind a ex BN SD60M. Youd never see that mix of power on UP, BNSF has a much more interesting mix of power!
Photo Date:  3/1/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 8:02:49 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BNSF 4730(C44-9W) BNSF 8153(SD60M) BNSF 4868(C44-9W) BNSF 555(B40-8W)
Views:  1679   Comments: 1
Rany Seattle
Title:  Rany Seattle
Description:  A lone GP39V takes a mostly single stack train north in the poring rain.
Photo Date:  3/1/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 8:04:30 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives:  BNSF 2974(GP39V)
Views:  900   Comments: 0
Snow Pig
Title:  Snow Pig
Description:  Snow pig ea? Railroaders have an interesting sense of humor.
Photo Date:  3/1/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 8:05:44 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BNSF 2974(GP39V)
Views:  944   Comments: 0
Grain under my feet.
Title:  Grain under my feet.
Description:  A grain train heads north under the World trade center pedestrian overpass.
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 8:07:27 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 688(C44-9W)
Views:  870   Comments: 0
Underfeet hopper.
Title:  Underfeet hopper.
Description:  Heres an overhead view of a for all you covered hopper fans.
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 8:08:31 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories:  Roster
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Views:  646   Comments: 0
BNSF green
Title:  BNSF green
Description:  A BNSF hopper in BN green breaks up the brown.
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 8:09:19 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories:  Roster
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Views:  480   Comments: 0
Covered hopper repaint.
Title:  Covered hopper repaint.
Description:  This is what I expect a repainted ribside covered hopper to look like.
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 8:10:45 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories:  Roster
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Views:  454   Comments: 0
DPU
Title:  DPU
Description:  The DPU crawls past, locos in idle.
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 8:11:19 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 4823(C44-9W) BNSF 873(C40-8W)
Views:  1170   Comments: 0
Old solder
Title:  Old solder
Description:  Since I gre up in New Mexico, Ill always have a soft spor for Santa Fe.
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 8:12:17 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BNSF 4823(C44-9W) BNSF 873(C40-8W)
Views:  1200   Comments: 2
Old face
Title:  Old face
Description:  The old Santa Fe dash 8 rolls across Broad St.
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 8:13:22 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 873(C40-8W)
Views:  909   Comments: 0
Wheels in a Truck
Title:  Wheels in a Truck
Description:  Hey, look at that, its wheel sets in a truck.
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 8:14:02 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  438   Comments: 0
Railfanning in Seattle, take two
Title:  Railfanning in Seattle, take two
Description:  Yet again, trying to be artsy.
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 8:15:07 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives: 
Views:  416   Comments: 1
Santa Fe
Title:  Santa Fe
Description:  All the way, even in Seattle!
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 8:15:38 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  428   Comments: 1
Tired old face
Title:  Tired old face
Description:  Too bad BNSF lets their warbonnets get like this. Shouldnt have chopped off the top of the globe.
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 8:16:44 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 873(C40-8W)
Views:  948   Comments: 1
South bound UPS train
Title:  South bound UPS train
Description:  A UPS TOFC.
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 8:17:29 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 4928(C44-9W) BNSF 4945(C44-9W) BNSF 1012(C44-9W) BNSF 905(C40-8W)
Views:  1398   Comments: 0
H1 dash 9
Title:  H1 dash 9
Description:  Havent seen one of these in a while.
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 8:18:11 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 4928(C44-9W) BNSF 4945(C44-9W) BNSF 1012(C44-9W) BNSF 905(C40-8W)
Views:  1337   Comments: 0
How UPS ships your stuff.
Title:  How UPS ships your stuff.
Description:  Keep on trucking... by train.
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 8:18:48 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  521   Comments: 0
Wheels in a Truck
Title:  Wheels in a Truck
Description:  Theres the wheel set truck again, with less wheels.
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/5/2008 8:19:23 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  446   Comments: 0

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