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SeattleRailFan's video: Oil train at Everett Station 9-14-2014

@Oil train at Everett Station, 9-14-2014
It's warm Sunday in September (86 deg!) and I'm trying a new railfanning location at Everett Station in Everett, WA. Everett is a medium-sized city about 30 miles north of Seattle. Listening to my scanner, I know a train is coming so I head up onto the pedestrian overpass to get an overhead viewpoint. It turns out to be a loaded oil train led by BNSF 4402 (C44-9W). This is crude oil from the Bakken formation in North Dakota headed to the Tesoro refinery in Anacortes, WA. The train slowed to a stop in front of the station. Dispatch had told them to expect a red signal at PA Junction. They were instructed to call Dispatch and she would give them verbal permission to pass the signal. I caught this radio conversation on the video as the crew was talked past the signal. Once they started moving, I switched vantage points on the bridge. You can see the train take the crossover from the mainline to the "Short Pass" track, then onto the "C-Line" track. That track makes a 180degree turn enroute to Delta Yard. From the yard they'll continue north onto the Bellingham Sub to Anacortes. In the background are three Sounder commuter trainsets, waiting to make their Monday morning runs down to Seattle. 4402 / 7386 / 5132 / 6720 C44-9W / ES44DC / C44-9W / ES44C4

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This video was published on 2014-09-16 10:19:47 GMT by @SeattleRailFan on Youtube. SeattleRailFan has total 5.5K subscribers on Youtube and has a total of 309 video.This video has received 74 Likes which are lower than the average likes that SeattleRailFan gets . @SeattleRailFan receives an average views of 12.2K per video on Youtube.This video has received 24 comments which are higher than the average comments that SeattleRailFan gets . Overall the views for this video was lower than the average for the profile.

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