Biking around Seattle waterfront

LocoHorn Sep 16, 2016

  1. Kurt Moose

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    Ballard drawbridge, back in the day....
    The huge GN logo with Rocky the Goat was epic!! Screenshot_20181025-170122~2.png
     
  2. Kurt Moose

    Kurt Moose TrainBoard Member

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    Get your pics, before it's gone......
     
  3. BNSF FAN

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    That is a great picture Kurt!
     
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  4. VinceP

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    Yup going to be replaced will miss the olde Salmon bay bridge once it's gone.
     
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  5. Kurt Moose

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    Hmmmmm, didntd take long for BNSF to get going on the project...... IMG_20181116_122740.jpg
    All sorts of drilling rigs and company trucks just to the right. Get some pics now, before the bridge is gone.....
     
  6. LocoHorn

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    Wow. They aren’t messing around. I’ll have to get over there soon. [​IMG]
     
  7. Mike VE2TRV

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    That huge counterweight is impressive. Probably more so when you're standing under it...:eek:
     
  8. Kurt Moose

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    Wow, almost the same angle as the old GN pic!(y)
     
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  9. Eilif

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    Wow, just finished reading through this whole thread. Excellent work and a great view of working trains.
    I'm kind of fascinated by these repainted caboose shoving platforms.
    Keep 'em coming!
     
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  10. Dogwood

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    Wow, a BC RAIL in consist.
     
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  11. LocoHorn

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    That’s the only one I’ve seen around Seattle in my 16 years here.
     
  12. Dogwood

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    I'm every year in BC Canada and I have never seen a BC RAIL engine.
     
  13. Akirasho

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    They say the same thing 'bout you!
     
  14. Dogwood

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    :)
     
  15. LocoHorn

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    Five Boeings and some wonderful sunshine.
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  16. Akirasho

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    Take THAT Airbus!!! OTOH, no more Lockheed, Douglas, Convair, DeHaviland as competing airline makers too... Many many fallen (or consolidated) flags in aerospace.

    I wonder what security protocols are used to transport such precious cargo (and keeping some yahoodoodle from taking pock shots from the hedge as the units roll by)? How far are they moved?
     
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  17. badlandnp

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    I think they leave from somewhere in Kansas or Oklahoma. They come up through Billings, MT and onto MRL over the NP all the way to Seattle and the Boeing plant. They go a long way by train before they ever fly!!
     
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  18. Kurt Moose

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    I wanna say Wichita, Kansas is the assembly place, then brought up to Renton, Wa for final assembly?

    Remember when the MRL had that derailment a few years back, and five of these went for a swim in Montana??
    o_O:(
     
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  19. badlandnp

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    No, I missed that bit of news! Yikes, that was spendy!!
     
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