SeattleRailFan's video: Oil train northbound at Mukilteo WA 10-1-2013

I'm hanging out at Mukilteo Beach Park in Mukilteo, WA on a very windy October afternoon. A partly cloudy sky hangs low over Puget Sound. A couple of gulls are railfanning with me and we're all waiting on a northbound train. Unbelievably, it's yet another oil train. That's three times in a row I've caught oil trains. That's how weird railfaning can be. And just to be even more weird, sharp-eyed viewers will note that this is the exact same train I caught on my last video exactly one week earlier up in Burlington. That train was an empty headed back to North Dakota led by 5690 and 661 with 4573 and 4403 on the tail. This train is full of oil headed to the Tesoro refinery in Anacortes, WA and is being led by 4403 and 4573 with 661 and 5690 on the tail. Very cool! Since I'm sure someone will ask, I believe the gulls in the video are Herring Gulls (Larus argentatus). The first one is a first-winter juvenile the other one a 2nd or 3rd-winter nonbreeding adult. Needless to say, one thing we have plenty of in the Pacific NW is gulls. Probably more of them around here than people. 4403 / 4573 / 661 / 5690 C44-9W / C44-9W / C44-9W / AC44CW