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Caught this short stack near Vader, WA - 20 well cars with an ES44AC on each end. It's not often I have been able to get an entire train in one picture...
Burlington Northern Santa Fe's M-EVEVAW (Manifest - Everett, Wash. to Vancouver, Wash.) is pickem' and puttin' them down as he roars past me on Main #1. The high green for a n/b on Main #2 is a grainer that he is going to meet about 4-5 miles down the line towards Castle Rock, Washington.
Vader Wa 09-15-02 7:20am BNSF Main 2 Northbound past two signals without slowing. The rear of BNSF 7305 can be seen as well as the top corner of several ballast cars piled up in the distance.
This is BNSF 3129 following the rearend collision in Vader WA. A 6089 ton ballast train with this engine second of two rear ended a parked stack train at 43mph. This engine came to rest on the engineers side and caught fire. Burned for over 2.5 hours before extingished.
BNSF7305 was on the point of a 4800Ton Northbound Ballast train that rear ended a parked stack train in Vader WA at 43mph on 09/15/02. No serious injuries. Containers were empty. Photographed 15 days following the incident on a siding 2 miles north of the scene.
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Sept 15 2002 Vader Wa rearend crash. Ballast train 42mph into rear of parked stack train. 20 ballast cars on the ground, 2 intermodal well sets, and 2 locomotives. 1:30am 33 hours later both mains are open again. Vader is mp 79 on the centrailia sub and exit 61 off of interstate 5.
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