Prototype Railroad Galleries > BNSF Baretable on Siberia Lead at Harbour Way (05/12/07) (6)
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BNSF Dash 9-44CW 4597 leads an NS sister and a two-mile string of empty wells toward the BNSF Richmond Terminal on the BNSF Siveria Lead at the Harbor Way crossing.
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Traffic on the Siberia lead has declined in the last year as more of the BNSF container and wellcar trains use the UP’s Cal-P line under trackage rights arrangements.
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I’m probably the only resident of Marina Bay who is happy to see one of these show up at the grade crossing!
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Norfolk Southern 9945 is also a GE Dash 9. We see these pretty often. Though most BNSF freights have mainly BNSF units, we occasionally see an all- or almost all- NS consist. We also get a scattering of CSX units around here too.
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These black and white units look business-like and massive. I have to say I’m happy with the BNSF schemes and I’m not hoping the NS becomes a merger ‘winner’. I miss the SP, but the BNSF and the UP seem right at home in the west.
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This view looks northwest along the Siberia Lead. The BNSF Richmond Terminal is about a mile futher along this track.
