This year instead of travelling outside the northwest I travelled into to Eastern Washington for a fall railfanning adventure. It ended up as Eastern Washington instead of the planned Colorado trip due to work obligations. For some reason they want me to be at work when we turn on a new computer system…go figure.
The weather over last weekend was just fabulous. The day time highs were in the 80s and sun was abundant. As you’ll see in the photos the sunsets were just gorgeous!
East of Ritzville, WA BNSF’s Lakeside sub is finally out of the coulees it has been in since Pasco. While this area appears flat from a distance the H-PASGAL shows the Keystone area isn’t flat at all!
I really enjoy grain elevators and the one at Hatton, WA is quite interesting as it is quite ‘aged’. The H-KCKPAS shown in this photo is the third westbound train to pass this location in a few minutes. Unfortunately the defect detector at MP 104 was malfunctioning so all three took well over an hour to get from this location to Connell.
Just after sunset on Saturday the Pasco East DS has west Tokio setup for the H-CSXPAS.
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