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Viewing Album:  Southbound W&I Highball
 
By:Maddie Farnsworth
Dates:8/30/2011 - 8/30/2011
Album Info:A few shots of a southbound W&I train
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Crossing WA 271
Title:  Crossing WA 271
Description:  I met up with the train in McCoy, to find WIR #20 pulling long hood forward.
Photo Date:  8/30/2011  Upload Date: 9/10/2011 9:10:17 PM
Location:  McCoy, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  332   Comments: 2
S Curves
Title:  S Curves
Description:  One of the many S curves on the line.
Photo Date:  8/30/2011  Upload Date: 9/10/2011 9:11:04 PM
Location:  McCoy, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  298   Comments: 1
Rounding the curve
Title:  Rounding the curve
Description:  #20 leans into a curve that is still superelevated from the days when BN Ran 40 MPH on the line.
Photo Date:  8/30/2011  Upload Date: 9/10/2011 9:12:25 PM
Location:  McCoy, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  224   Comments: 3
Crossing WA 27
Title:  Crossing WA 27
Description:  Entering into Oakesdale.
Photo Date:  8/30/2011  Upload Date: 9/10/2011 9:13:10 PM
Location:  Oakesdale, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories:  Signal
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  208   Comments: 0
Setting out grain hoppers
Title:  Setting out grain hoppers
Description:  There are a few hoppers behind the box being set out. The yellow center beams are part of today's train, the blue ones are storage cars.
Photo Date:  8/30/2011  Upload Date: 9/10/2011 9:13:44 PM
Location:  Oakesdale, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  236   Comments: 1
Bit o lean...
Title:  Bit o lean...
Description:  This track has developed quite a lean over the years!
Photo Date:  8/30/2011  Upload Date: 9/10/2011 9:14:40 PM
Location:  Oakesdale, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  247   Comments: 2
More grain set outs
Title:  More grain set outs
Description:  Spotting a few hoppers at the Inland Empire Pea Growers elevator. This track isnt often used.
Photo Date:  8/30/2011  Upload Date: 9/10/2011 9:16:00 PM
Location:  Oakesdale, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  319   Comments: 1
Work in Oakesdale done.
Title:  Work in Oakesdale done.
Description:  #20 heads back to its train.
Photo Date:  8/30/2011  Upload Date: 9/10/2011 9:17:01 PM
Location:  Oakesdale, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  205   Comments: 0
Departing Okaesdale
Title:  Departing Okaesdale
Description:  Crossing WA 27 again, headed south.
Photo Date:  8/30/2011  Upload Date: 9/10/2011 9:17:38 PM
Location:  Oakesdale, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  209   Comments: 1
South of oakesdale
Title:  South of oakesdale
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/30/2011  Upload Date: 9/10/2011 9:18:15 PM
Location:  Oakesdale, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  234   Comments: 1
Soft spot
Title:  Soft spot
Description:  Two loaded fertilizer hoppers lean into a sofy spot in the roadbed.
Photo Date:  8/30/2011  Upload Date: 9/10/2011 9:18:57 PM
Location:  Oakesdale, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  170   Comments: 0
Low down on the #20
Title:  Low down on the #20
Description:  Trying for a creative shot here.
Photo Date:  8/30/2011  Upload Date: 9/10/2011 9:19:41 PM
Location:  Belmont, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  193   Comments: 0
Notching up.
Title:  Notching up.
Description:  #20 throttles up to make it over the hill that it has started climbing. http://youtu.be/_EuwOZ7yI6s
Photo Date:  8/30/2011  Upload Date: 9/10/2011 9:21:36 PM
Location:  Belmont, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  772   Comments: 8
Coasting into Eden
Title:  Coasting into Eden
Description:  I thought the RR speed limit on this stretch was 10MPH, but that is not the case! I barely had time to set up for this shot.
Photo Date:  8/30/2011  Upload Date: 9/10/2011 9:23:15 PM
Location:  Eden, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  319   Comments: 1
Boxcar set out.
Title:  Boxcar set out.
Description:  The crew has set out the boxcar at the small warehouse in Eden. Lots of peas and lentils are grown in this region, and many are shipped out bagged in boxcars.
Photo Date:  8/30/2011  Upload Date: 9/10/2011 9:24:37 PM
Location:  Eden, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  200   Comments: 0
More S curves
Title:  More S curves
Description:  Many S curves on this line, this one is under the WA 27 overpass just north of Garfield.
Photo Date:  8/30/2011  Upload Date: 9/10/2011 9:25:43 PM
Location:  Garfield, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  211   Comments: 0
Coasting through Garfield
Title:  Coasting through Garfield
Description:  No grain setputs today, the siding is filled with storage NOCL, ex BCRail centerbeams.
Photo Date:  8/30/2011  Upload Date: 9/10/2011 9:27:34 PM
Location:  Garfield, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  175   Comments: 1
Train in the distance
Title:  Train in the distance
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/30/2011  Upload Date: 9/10/2011 9:31:18 PM
Location:  Garfield, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  216   Comments: 1
Full throttle
Title:  Full throttle
Description:  Quite the little hill here, even for this short of a train. http://youtu.be/bnGKFIzcAOQ
Photo Date:  8/30/2011  Upload Date: 9/10/2011 9:33:55 PM
Location:  Garfield, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  215   Comments: 0
Crossing the Palouse River.
Title:  Crossing the Palouse River.
Description:  Washington and Idaho Railway #20 crosses the Palouse River, just north of the town of Palouse, in a region called the Palouse. This particular unit was formerly owned by the Palouse River and Coulee City RR, which used to be the Palouse River Railroad.
Photo Date:  8/30/2011  Upload Date: 9/10/2011 9:37:16 PM
Location:  Garfield, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  613   Comments: 5
Street running!
Title:  Street running!
Description:  One of the dirty little secrets of this region. For a 5-6 block streach the W&I (Ex MILW, built by the WI&M) tracks run down the middle if Whitman St.
Photo Date:  8/30/2011  Upload Date: 9/10/2011 9:38:48 PM
Location:  Palouse, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  808   Comments: 3
GP30 down Whitman St
Title:  GP30 down Whitman St
Description:  Taking two center beams to the mumber mill in Princeton ID.
Photo Date:  8/30/2011  Upload Date: 9/10/2011 9:39:42 PM
Location:  Palouse, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  733   Comments: 1
Down the W&IM.
Title:  Down the W&IM.
Description:  Leavign Palouse
Photo Date:  8/30/2011  Upload Date: 9/10/2011 9:40:28 PM
Location:  Palouse, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  289   Comments: 1
Final shot for the day.
Title:  Final shot for the day.
Description:  I would have to chaised the train all the way to the mill, but it was gettign late and I had to go to work.
Photo Date:  8/30/2011  Upload Date: 9/10/2011 9:43:04 PM
Location:  Wellesley, ID
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  230   Comments: 2

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