Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!

by Aaron Hockley

Sunday we headed up to Rochester to watch some football with friends, but since I just happened to be driving along a mainline, I just happened to find some trains.

There was a UP stack train just getting on the move southbound at Woodland, and hot on his tail at MP 113 was another UP stack train. The first looked like a KGNsomething, not sure about the second. I took the scenic route through Kalama (read: along the grain elevators and chemical plants) and wasn’t disappointed. I pulled off at Todd Road and as I approached the crossing, the gates started coming down. Aw shucks, another train. The H-EVEBAR9 rolled by with three Dash 9s for power. Right as his tail end cleared the crossing, a S-BPATAC came by with a FURX green weenie followed by a warbonnet GP60M. Excellent, except I’d hoped to shoot that train a quarter mile up the road. I hate it when my photos are spoiled by the abundance of trains What is this, the transcon?

I cruised north through Kalama, watched a couple grain empties jockey for position getting out onto Main 1, and as I drove past Peavey noticed they had a blue switcher (SW-something) out front… with one end up on a crane, having work done underneath. It was nice to see something different… didn’t get any pictures since their location wasn’t very photogenic.

Hopping back onto I-5, I caught a southbound manifest (probably an EVEPAS or TACPAS) pulling out of Longview yard with several geeps… that would be the last train I saw I as I headed north.

Oh, and go check out Northwest Trains… Dan just updated some of the pages.

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