Hanging out above the BNSF mainline, Seattle, 11-19-2013

[@jacobjones9498]

WOW, Nice catches! Especially on the Santa Fe Warbonnet, the Citirail, and the two SD70ACe's. Seattle lines may look chaotic, but its very welly organized. I need to try and railfan here. The one time I did, I saw the new Talgo train just sitting in front of one of the sheds. Again, Nice job!

[@dejohdenny2870]

Great one. Looks like a very busy stretch of track.

[@SeattleRailFan]

It is. Balmer Yard, to the north, is the main Seattle yard and pretty much every train that passes through, terminates or departs from the area goes past this point.

[@MiguelAngel-gx3hq]

Wow, lot of action !!! Congratulations. A question about the stack train stopped in the mainline. You mean a garbage train ? This containers are full of garbage ?

[@SeattleRailFan]

Miguel Angel That is a garbage train parked on the siding (not on one of the main tracks). We ship garbage to the landfill in containers similar to the normal intermodal containers. They are open topped with a canvas cover. These are the distinctive gray with the blue and red Allied Waste logo as used on the BNSF garbage trains. The UP garbage trains out of Seattle use mostly green Rabanco containers.

[@MiguelAngel-gx3hq]

SeattleRailFan Thanks for the answer. Good idea to get the garbage out of the city. Happy new year.

[@robertramsay5963]

Thanks for posting this vid. I've been on that bridge on one of my trips to Seattle - was hoofing it to a model train store a little further up the road. You've shared some really nice footage.

[@broman700]

Awesome video, so close to the action!

[@alco957]

Nice video and description & beautiful locomotive Cityrail.... I subscribe.

[@zackbovitz1484]

with the CREX GEVO, I saw my first one sitting in Northtown Yard in Minneapolis

[@MultiSuperman800]

This is grain heaven.

[@upsd402]

Nice video, love the Citirail locomotive.

[@samuelmcclatcher8502]

csx in seattle, sweet video

[@tejasnite]

yeah thanks for showing signal

[@duxberry1958]

Top video SeattleRailFan

[@thetriplem2661]

Are you by any chance familiar with Will Holloway ? Before moving to Seattle, he used to film trains like this for a living, and edited his films in his own studio before selling them through mainstream distributors . He last moved to Seattle 10 years or so ago. He and his buddy Josh are huge railfans and also model train builders.

[@SeattleRailFan]

No, I'm not. I've only been into railfanning for 6-7 years.

[@freighttrainsahpassing9790]

@ about the 10 minute mark, it looks as though there is going to be a race lol !!!

[@jplaw2508]

Is that a small hawk at 6:06? :)

[@SeattleRailFan]

+jp law The bird sitting on the post? Not sure what it is. We have plenty of birds around here - gulls, crows, hawks, bald eagles, kingfishers.

[@jplaw2508]

+SeattleRailFan True, and great trains, too! I love the 737 trains, they go right by my house coming down from Stevens Pass. Your videos are great, by the way. Thanks!

[@SeattleRailFan]

+jp law Thanks for the comment - I enjoy making them as much as you enjoy watching them!

[@gemstealer7567]

Love this! Does Amtrak come through here? Last time I traveled out west we came into Seattle from Everett and I remember coming down by the water...

[@SeattleRailFan]

Yes. The Amtrak "Empire Builder" train comes southbound into Seattle on these mainline tracks. Just after you passed my filming location, you would have entered the old GN tunnel under Seattle, then arrived at King Street Station just outside the south portal of the tunnel.

[@mdgfb05]

the two sd70s on the coal train are SD70m-2s not aCes

[@SeattleRailFan]

+Trainfan 3219 Incorrect. Both are SD70ACe units, see below. BNSF 9055: www.rrpicturearchives.net/locopicture.aspx?id=180877 BNSF 9117: www.rrpicturearchives.net/Locopicture.aspx?id=180513

[@mdgfb05]

wwwwwwwwat

[@peacefulmind1559]

Best train video I've seen so far on You Tube. When do you get time to earn money? If I lived there I would never leave that spot. I would then end up unemployed and homeless.

[@SeattleRailFan]

I'm a small package courier. Whenever there aren't any deliveries to be made, I head for the tracks to see what I can see. All my videos were taken in between deliveries.

[@ChachaChapati]

SeattleRailFan I took a little three-day holiday to Seattle my last year of college and wandered down to the Jackson Street overpass; didn't wait long before a train emerged out of the tunnel--and then several more going in, all in the space of 15 minutes on a Friday night.

[@thetriplem2661]

Lyn Durga one of my closer friends used to film train videos like this for a living before he moved to Seattle. It's EZ to fall into that trap, even if it's a hobby for pay.

[@slayerdearly]

I'd so LOVE to live in Seattle :D