BNSF Wenatchee: Watching a Railroad Work.
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- Опубліковано 24 вер 2020
- This video starts where my previous video ended. I found myself in downtown Wenatchee waiting for both an Eastbound Manifest and a Westbound Stack Train. Little did I realize that I would be there over 3 and a half hours. NO, this video isn't that longs but it is close to 50 minutes! The reason? Extra power needed to be added for the trip over Stevens Pass. Power was added not only to the head end but also mid train as well. And of course not everything went smoothly. Thus the long time. I included just the clips that tell the story on how a railroad works on a given day. That day was September 21, 2020. So, set back, relax and enjoy the scanner chatter as well as the "action". As always, Thanks for watching, Please "like" and subscribe.
Very cool seeing the BN coal hoppers!
Thanks for watching Lou. 😊
There’s a CSX engineer that have a UA-cam channel that briefly talks about setting up distributed power units and they sometimes have issues syncing them up…..Great video👍
Great video, l really enjoyed it!!! Thanks for sharing!!
Pleasure was mine. Thanks for watching. 😊
Some really good stuff here! Videography, sound, everything. I subscribe to a lot of railroad content on UA-cam and this is right at the top, quality wise. Subscribed!
Thank you Fritz! Your comment and your subscription is very much appreciated. 😊
Brilliant video. So much more interesting than simply watching trains pass by. Great location too. Look forward to more videos in the future. Made me think of what it would have been like all those years ago when the electrics were being switched in / out a few miles down the line.
Glad you enjoyed it. 😊
Very cool! Learned quite a bit!
That's great to know. I'm glad when we can be both entertaining and informative. Thanks for watching Bonnie. 😊
Great video. Very interesting to watch .
Thank you. 😊
Well done video. Thanks for sharing.
Thank You. 😊
Great video Kevin, enjoyed
Thanks. 😊
Fantastic production! You earned a new subscriber! ;)
Thank You for watching! Much appreciated. 😊
Great video and I completely agree with your introductory caption.
Thank you Ken. 😊
Awesome video that's conductor walking towards your camera is Alex he's one of the cool guys I get to run to Evertte very chill guy.
Thanks Ricky 😊
43:22 Just realized, you got an H2 GEVO with an H3 logo on the nose!!!
Good work dude!
Thank You! Thanks for watching. 😊
Good Stuff KD
Thank you David. 😊
Came through here on the Builder and went over the Stevens Pass during my trip to Edmonds. Coolest route I ever went over or seen. And you nailed it with this video by just allowing the scanner and brief texts to tell the story! Must be quite a challenge to bring a train that size over Stevens Pass. Any chance did you hear what it's total length and weight was?
Not sure of the weight or length but it was 238 axles. It's beautiful country and I feel privileged to live close by. Thanks for watching!
Does the locomotive's diesel engine drive its wheels directly (via gearing and powertrain) or is all power generated electromotively (via generator -► electric motors)? Or maybe both?
Correct on the latter.. They are diesel electric. The diesel run the generator which powers the electric motors on each axle set. 😊
NEARBY TO MY NEW HOMETOWN OF CASHMERE ,,,
Any idea what freight was in the white-covered gondola cars in the east-bound manifest train?
Great question Ralph. I believe those contain rolls of coiled steel. Thanks for watching! 😊
Those cars carry iron ore from Red Dog, Alaska. They're often stuck on the front of an empty coal train, like you see in the video. It's actually not a manifest, it's an empty coal combo train.
Awesome shots! Always been curious when and where they attach those helpers. Got a couple questions though, if you don't mind.
1. What's with that local power sitting on that little siding on the north side of the tracks? Is that the SPUD or something?
2. Any idea why it's called the WO track? It seems like BNSF sets out cars for CSCD there, and CSCD sets out cars for BNSF on the northernmost track.
Also, that eastbound at the beginning was an empty coal combo, not an H-EVESPO. They've been running lots of those empty coals with either EVESPO cars or Red Dog, AK ore cars at the front, like the ones you caught. They're symbolized as XE-RBXXXX, and they can be RBGSXM, RBCSCM, or RBABTM.
Thanks for watching. The power sitting on the siding is the "Wenatchee Switcher". Besides doing the obvious of switching down in Appleyard it's job is to switch out the cars coming and going from CSCD (Cascade and Columbia) at Wenatchee Yard. The WO track originates with the Great Northern as the line north up the Columbia (now used by CSCD) to Oroville was known as the Wenatchee/Oroville branch, thus the WO. The name has just stuck all the way through the BN era into BNSF. 😊
@@GreatNorthernTech Ohhh ok. Why does the switcher seem to always have 1 or 2 hoppers, a tanker, and a caboose sitting on that siding?
@@everettrailfan That's a good question as well. I hardly ever see those hoppers move off that track. Sometimes the caboose moves and is used as a pushing platform. There is a industrial business of some sort at the end of that siding.
@@GreatNorthernTech Looking on Google Maps it appears to be a flammable liquid storage facility.
@@everettrailfan OK, so that's what it is now. Its changed hands and been redone a few times. I have a few contacts, see if I can find out what those cars parked there are for. Might even shoot some video there as well. Hope to get out tomorrow to get more video. Today was a really sloppy snowy day here in Malaga with about 4" of heavy wet snow. 😊
Is there a bathroom aboard each locomotive?
There is in each nose of the locomotive. 😊
How many cars made up that train?
That I'm not sure about. 🤔 Thanks for watching! 😊
What do you mean by synching the middle units up
Thanks for the question Jennifer. Multiple units (locomotives) are all controlled from the lead unit. Being in "sync" means that they all can operated as one by the engineer. Not being able to get a particular locomotive to synchronize with the lead means it cannot be controlled by the engineer and would not be providing the power that is needed. Hope this helps a bit on your question. Thanks for watching. 😊
@@GreatNorthernTech Thank you so much for your response. Because of covid- I am trying to get as far ahead as I can so after the railways start hiring again- I can be ready to go. It is so fun to interact with your videos. If you have any words of wisdom for a young engineer- please share. I enjoy being on your channel.