Posted by Goose on November 20, 2015 at 12:27:59 from (70.198.7.161):
In Reply to: Listening... posted by Dave H (MI) on November 20, 2015 at 08:48:38:
Burlington Northern has dual tracks that run a mile west of our house, as the crow flies. There is a steady stream of trains all day, mostly coal trains with loaded ones going east and empties going west.
Once in a while there is something interesting, like when a train of assorted tonnage will have three stripped airliner fuselages on special flatcars. I assume Boing makes the fuselages in their plant in Wichita and then ships them by rail to Seattle for adding wings and doing all the finish work. Don't know why, but there are always three at a time.
Also a mile west of my house is a town that has almost disappeared. All that's left is a large grain elevator, a house that the elevator owns and rents to an employee, and a township hall where residents of our precinct go to vote. And none of the grain is shipped by rail, although it once was. Now, it's all trucked out, with corn going west to ethanol plants and soybeans going east. The siding tracks are still there, but they're no longer connected. Guess the railroad is too busy with coal to bother with grain.
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