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    Visiting from Australia to Washington State - where to go for best coverage

    When are you going? The north-south old Northern Pacific Route from Vancouver WA to the Canadian border is a parade of trains, with highways nearby to chase them from.
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    France bans short flights in favor of train

    Swell, that'll make sure that the all-too-common SNCF strikes cripple the nation for travelers...
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    South Sound, WA state

    Here are some videos I've taken in and around the Centralia WA area, with an emphasis on Napavine Hill:
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    Chehalis railroad company reopens train rides in Washington

    No steam, though. 15 is down for a lot of needed boiler work.
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    UP 2646 on the head of Amtrak Cascades norhtbound

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    UP 2646 on the head of Amtrak Cascades norhtbound

    Just passed through Nisqually, WA about 20 minutes ago. The train was moving very slowly with the UP loco on point. The normal power was at the other end, cold.
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    Comment by 'p51' in media 'Abandoned'

    Where is that?   Reminds me of the '80s TV series "Amazing Stories" episide called 'Ghost Train'...
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    BNSF track projects, WA State 2014

    Rails have been dumped from a rail train last week, concrete ties are all over the place at Tillicum. They're doing some work on the bridge over I-5 and track work between there and the Nisqually switch. New signals there were put in during 2015. No signals in place that I know of between Dupont...
  9. Green, blue and black...

    Green, blue and black...

    Western Washington Railroad going past a dry pond near state highway 12 to the end of the old joint Milwaukee Road/logging tracks, where normally only team runs in the summer for the Chehalis Steam Train association train. I\'d never seen a freight go down to the end of the line before. Their...
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  10. Where steam normally roams

    Where steam normally roams

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  11. Limping North Cascades

    Limping North Cascades

    BNSF ES44C4 7175 leads an empty Amtrak Cascades through Nisqually, WA Northbound. The same train set was seen 4 hours before, sitting on the main in about the same location.
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    Comment by 'p51' in media 'Bus_Front'

    BNSF ES44C4 7175 leads an empty Amtrak Cascades through Nisqually, WA Northbound. The same train set was seen 4 hours before, sitting on the main in about the same location. From this shot you can see how low to the tracks the cab of the new Cascades set is. Some fans call this set, "The...
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  13. Bus_Front

    Bus_Front

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  14. Snaking

    Snaking

    UP stack train approaches the Chambers Bay Bridge.
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  15. Skipping along

    Skipping along

    UP stack train crossing the Chambers Bay Bridge, the only lift bridge of its type in the US. It\'s a Strauss patent direct-lift vertical lift bridge, pony truss, completed in 1914.
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