Crew 2 southbound in Kent, WA, 1-7-2015
I stopped by Kent Station in Kent, WA (about 20 miles south of Seattle) to see if anything was going on.
On my scanner I heard Crew 2 talking with Centralia North Dispatch. They were looking for permission to leave the Industrial Lead and head south to Tacoma. That means they were due to come right by my location. Excellent!
The Industrial Lead is a long siding that parallels the mainlines. Glacier Park Yard and several industrial spurs connect to this track.
As a bit of trivia, they noted their length as 9100 feet and 5200 trailing tons. Trailing tons is the weight of the train excluding the locos.
I went out on the platform and a few minutes later was rewarded by the sight of the train slowly coming down the Industrial Lead. The lead loco was BNSF 1441, an old SD60M still in Cascade Green.
The train didn't accelerate to full track speed as she passed me. I assume that is because the Lead track has a lower speed limit. The engineer had to wait for the end of the train to clear the Lead before getting up to full mainline speed.
Crew 2 is a local job that works industries between Seattle and Tacoma. From what I've seen, they move autoracks that are setout up in Seattle down to the Orillia Auto Facility north of here, service the few industries in the Kent area and also transfer cars down to Auburn Yard and Tacoma Yard.
1441 / 2695
SD60M / GP39-3
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thanks for these super videos your captioning makes a good watch excellent.here in the UK the radically different style of railroading in the US is sometimes hard to follow ,you make things very clear ;thanks again.
As usual another great vid.Somewhat timely as I am putting together an autorack train on my n-scale layout.Nice to know I can still use my old white face patches and a hodge-podge of racks.
Yes, railroading is both the same and very different in different countries.
Thanks for the vid.
Very nice video!
Nice one. Actually saw a little sun light for a second.
@SeattleRailFan
9 жыл бұрын
Yes, that was all of the 36 seconds of actual sunlight we get per winter.
wow damn good horn on that unit noticed approach going south also was that for a sounder due in? also looked like somebody was riding in the second unit
@SeattleRailFan
9 жыл бұрын
The video opens with me shooting looking southbound where you see the southbound Main 2 signal. Then I turn to the north to catch the train coming around the bend. The train is traveling southbound. If you're talking about the flashing yellow seen there, that is a northbound signal. Not exactly sure what it's for. There is a spur off Main 1 just north of there, perhaps that signal is there to inform a crew of status of that switch.
Cool
One big troll!! lol
How do you know when each train is coming
@SeattleRailFan
9 жыл бұрын
I have a scanner and can listen in on the Dispatcher and crews talking. This isn't perfect, but many times you can tell that a train will be coming your way.
@modeler4840
9 жыл бұрын
SeattleRailFan what brand is it
@SeattleRailFan
9 жыл бұрын
Modeler 48 I currently have a Uniden AT-125, before that I had a Uniden BC72XLT. The stock antenna isn't tuned to the railroad frequencies, so I got a "rubber ducky"-style antenna from Smiley Antenna that is tuned to the specific railroad frequencies. That helped me get much better reception.