Amtrak overtaking intermodal train, Kent, WA, 4-10-2012
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- Sometimes railfanning is all about luck.
I was hanging out in Kent (about 15 miles south of Seattle). I could see the signals in front of me showing Approach Medium on one main and Clear on the other. So I figured two trains were coming at sometime in the future.
On my scanner I heard a stack train tell dispatch they had finished dropping cars at an industry north of town and were ready to head south. So that's one train.
As they approached I could hear that they were at a high throttle setting, accelerating hard now that they had cleared downtown Kent. Love the sound of those big diesels at full throttle!
As they got closer I heard the distinctive sound of the horns used on Amtrak trains. Sure enough, an Amtrak Cascades train came rocketing by on the other main, passing the slow moving stack train in a perfect overtaking move directly in front of me. Sweeeeet!
5322 / 599
C44-9W / C44-9W
AMTK 90278 / 197
NPCU / P42DC
Right place, right time. Nice shot!
I believe they were dropping autoracks at Glacier Park Yard in north Kent. That's about the only industry north of the city that I can think of.
Autoracks are dropped in that yard then a local job shuffles them in and out of the adjacent Orillia Vehicle Facility.
I've seen many trains come through Seattle with a combination of well cars and autoracks.
A wonderfull catch!
(BTW BNSF (ex ATSF) #599 was renumbered from #666, i guess they were a bit superstitious :)
It think it was. I looked at the original raw video frame by frame and it looked like the name was Mt. Adams. Hard to see when they're passing you at speed!
No chance of a crash. There are two mains in this area, with one train on each.
Now that, was awsome!
Nice!! Only thing that would have made it better would be green BN units on the stack train, and proper Cascades units on the Talgo :P
Also, any idea where and why the stacker drops off cars?
Was the Amtrak Talgo set Mt. Adams? I wasn't able to see it carefully.
That was a close call... If amtrak was going the same speed of that other train then you wpuld of recorded an crash.
Yep, luck. Lucky bastard.
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