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Crossing East Low Canal.
Crossing I 90.
Arriving at Raugust.
Setting out a hopper and picking up a ballast car at Simplot.
Getting ready to leave with the ballast car in the train.
Detail view of the top of the 651.
The 651 is at the point where the overpass of the Milwaukee branch to Moses Lake crossed beneath the NP.
Crossing Weber Coulee.
Crossing Lind Coulee.
Crossing the diamond at Warden.
With the ballast car, they are off to grab 2 reefers at Lamb Weston.
My photos.
This is just part of what they did. At one point the three locomotives were uncoupled. One was left standing while the other two went two different directions for additional switching.
Grabbed a few screenshots of their website for posterity. The pages for tariffs and such are more extensive and not necessarily that interesting.
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Switching the new Simplot plant at Wheeler.
Passing the NP era water tank at Wheeler.
Pulling hard at Frischknecht.
Coming down the hill into Connell.
Waiting at Connell while a grain train passes.
One of the fellows on the chase with me at Connell.
Crossing Buehler Rd.
Crossing a bridge just north of Bruce.
Coming through the S curve track that BN built to connect the former NP with the Milwaukee north of Warden. I'm standing on the ramp to the flyover the NP had over the Milwaukee.
Gaining former Milwaukee trackage north of Warden.
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August 8, 2025
With the ownership of the Columbia Basin Railway in Eastern Washington set to change in a week, a couple of fellows and I headed out today (8-8-25) see what was going on. We caught the Connell Turn headed to Connell and the connection with the BNSF with a former NP geep in the lead, the CBRW 1626. This is a former NP branch, so it's nice to see home-road power still around.
The return trip north to Warden had the 2274 in charge. Both photos taken at Frischknecht.
