SeattleRailFan's video: Trash and People in Mukilteo WA 2-10-2014

Note the title is Trash and People in Mukilteo, not Trashy People in Mukilteo. Don't want to disparage the fine citizens of the city! I'm once again on the beach in Mukilteo,WA, about 20 miles north of Seattle. I've selected a vantage point that gives a great view of a southbound train coming around the curve almost a mile away. BNSF 4861 (C44-9W) leads the EVEROO (Everett to Rossevelt) garbage train. I got a wave from the engineer as they passed by! I think this is the first wave I've got from a BNSF crew. Very exciting! I waited around and caught a nice shot of a new, as yet unpainted, Boeing 777 coming in for a landing at Paine Field up on the hill. Boeing's Everett plant is located next to the airfield. They make the 777, 767, 747 and 787 Dreamliners at the plant. Trivia: the building is the largest in the world by volume (472 million cubic feet). Next up was a Sounder commuter train running northbound. SDRX 907 (F59PHI) was pushing on the rear with CabCar SDRX 111 on the point. These trains are run in a "push-pull" configuration. That means there is a locomotive on one end of the train and a "cab car" on the other. The cab car is a passenger car that has a tiny little driver's compartment on the back end. This "cab" has a full set of the same throttle, brake and other controls that you'd find in the locomotive. When the train runs north, the engineer sits in the cab car and the loco pushes the train. At the northern terminus, the engineer moves to the loco cab and the loco pulls the train south. This is done so the train doesn't have to be turned on a wye to travel in the other direction. 4861 / 4586 C44-9W / C44-9W SDRX 111 / 907 Cab car / F59PHI