Railfanning Picnic Point & Edmonds, WA. 5/6-7/2010

Here's a compilation video of a couple days of railfanning in the Edmonds and Picnic Point area's of western Washington State.
-Train 1: A BNSF work train flies by at track speed just south of Picnic Point. -Train 2: A northbound manifest train, bound for Canada skirts along the waterfront.
-Train 3: An eastbound empty grain train cruses along the waterfront.
-Train 4: We move south to downtown Edmonds, Washington where an eastbound Z train with 6 engines rolls by.
-Train 5: After meeting with the Z train, a southbound manifest train throttles up at MP-18 with an NS SD70M-2 in the consist.
-Train 6: An eastbound empty grain train flies through the Main Street crossing in Edmonds.
-Train 7: An eastbound empty grain train rounds one of the curves at Picnic Point.
-Train 8: The fourth and final Sounder Commuter Train of the day flies through Picnic Point.
-Train 9: A southbound manifest rounds the curve at Picnic Point.
- Train 10: Amtrak Cascades #516 flies under the pedestrian bridge at Picnic Point.
Hope you enjoyed.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• BNSF
• Freight
• Stack
• Manifest
• Grain
• Passenger
• Train
• C44-9W
• DASH
• ES44DC
• GEVO
• Norfolk
• Southern
• NS
• SD70M-2
• Amtrak
• F59PHI
• Scenic
• Subdivision
• Washington
• Edmonds
• Mukilteo

[RailfanDaniel]

Great video and action! As for the Sounder, wow ridership demand on the North line must be increasing. I thought all trains always only ran with three cars. With a fourth car on this train. That means ridership is increasing. The ridership was quite low a while back and still is but increasing. 1101 people last year on average. This year with a fourth car on every train by the end of the year. Means likely the ridership is at least 1800, wow! BTW, nice K5LA on the Amtrak Cascades NPCU!

[Fiddleman200616]

Thanks for the nice words Daniel. Actually the extra coach on the last sounder is for the Mariners special they run on the weekends. But the ridership is going up too.

[AMTK510]

Nicely done, dude.

[Fiddleman200616]

Thanks man!

[RailfanDaniel]

@Fiddleman200616 No problem. Oh, that's why. Didn't know there was a Mariners special, sorry. Im glad Sounder runs trains to the sports teams games! Geez, that's pretty good, four cars considering the daily commuting ridership is only not far above 1100 people. Yet, i actually checked. For special events, the average ridership is 2398! Wow, im surprised that people suddenly become smart when it comes to travel when going to events. Wow! That's good ridership is going up too!