Guest post by Frederick Manfred Simon.
July 20, 2017
A touch of haze; a thin veil of
atmospheric cover; a balmy 83°: An easting Eastern Washington
Gateway procession, straight outta Coulee City arrowing towards
Hartline in 10 with 20 belly-aching-full hoppers of locally harvested
gold, comfortably ambles along – kinetically at times – with
ample 6-axle power over a multi-mile tangent just as the electricity
it passes under from mega hydro electric near 2,700MW capacity Coulee
Dam flows along an endless tangent of high-power lines that
electrifies the ever increasing, ceaseless energy demands of the many
megatropolises to the south, further south, and between. Note the
three – over the years – successively added lattice towers.
Because the “CW” no longer reaches Connell as – long ago – it
once did (today's terminus Coulee City), loads must first be brought
east where trans-loaded into one of BNSF’s 300+ sets of 100+ unit
grain trains via the Highline Grain facility at Four Lakes from
whence the seed heads west for export or processing for increasing,
endless consumption demands.
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