loaded_baretable
Beaverton, OR
An unfamiliar movement in my familiar old stomping grounds. with PNWR's night "North Relief" crew at the controls, a loaded soda ash storage movement from UP passes the railroad control point Farmington. I'm not sure what the exact cause of this movement was; a weak market, economic problems, or just not being able to get a ship at T4, but UP needed to park a unit Soda Ash train somewhere, and a deal was made to store it at Banks on the PNWR. The PNWR crew took 2311 out to where UP had left the train at Johnson Creek near Brooklyn, adding their locomotive to the head end for cab signal compliance in the Trimet WES corridor. After traversing the Willsburg to Tigard and heading north, here it's pictured leaving the WES corridor for the Tillamook district in Beaverton. A long unit train like this, with big road power, in my hometown, was not something I expected to see during my stint back home from Eugene for spring break, especially as it's been several years since a movement like this on the north region of PNWR. Hearing 3 big GEs chug in unison to keep the heavy 140+ car mineral train moving through the Beaverton suburbs was very foreign for this place, but cool. [UP Symbol: OTAT4 22]
Beaverton, OR
An unfamiliar movement in my familiar old stomping grounds. with PNWR's night "North Relief" crew at the controls, a loaded soda ash storage movement from UP passes the railroad control point Farmington. I'm not sure what the exact cause of this movement was; a weak market, economic problems, or just not being able to get a ship at T4, but UP needed to park a unit Soda Ash train somewhere, and a deal was made to store it at Banks on the PNWR. The PNWR crew took 2311 out to where UP had left the train at Johnson Creek near Brooklyn, adding their locomotive to the head end for cab signal compliance in the Trimet WES corridor. After traversing the Willsburg to Tigard and heading north, here it's pictured leaving the WES corridor for the Tillamook district in Beaverton. A long unit train like this, with big road power, in my hometown, was not something I expected to see during my stint back home from Eugene for spring break, especially as it's been several years since a movement like this on the north region of PNWR. Hearing 3 big GEs chug in unison to keep the heavy 140+ car mineral train moving through the Beaverton suburbs was very foreign for this place, but cool. [UP Symbol: OTAT4 22]