Norfolk Southern and Santa Fe Locomotives in Washington - BNSF Coal Train

[@Ferrocarril_Chicago]

As someone who's from Chicago, used to seeing everything all the time except for KCS and Ferromex, I seem to forget that you guys west of the Mississippi River don't see Norfolk Southern all that often. Awesome to see you got a little treat out in your direction.

[@CoasterFan2105]

Yes, Chicago is definitely the place to see a little bit of everything! Thank you!

[@nathancorcoran5347]

First video of 2023. Amazing video by the way.

[@CoasterFan2105]

Thank you, Nathan!

[@coolleo149]

Glad these locomotives are still running for the new years!

[@CoasterFan2105]

Indeed! Thanks for watching!

[@Big.Al.3]

You set the bar high for this year, Mike. Great 🎥 film.

[@CoasterFan2105]

Many thanks, Allan!

[@CentralPennRailProductions]

Happy New Year: This is a solid catch and great start to 2023! Definitely bizarre seeing a DC power assigned to coal train service in this day and age, I wonder if that's why the 1810 was snagged somewhere, despite being so far from home.

[@CoasterFan2105]

Happy New Year! Yeah, that's a really good question. Although, BNSF seems to frequently put at least one C44 on the coal trains that come through, sometimes more. Not sure why. I saw another one go through the other night with a CSX AC4400 and another BNSF 700 series C44.

[@SoCalOCRailfan]

Amazing video Mike! So nice so see a lashup and consist like this

[@CoasterFan2105]

Thanks so much! It was neat to see!

[@291281]

Happy new year 2023 CoasterFan2105

[@CoasterFan2105]

Happy New Year!

[@wafflesnfalafel1]

Awesome vid sir - a SF and BNSF warbonnet back to back being led by a NS SD70 rebuild? Crazy! Beautiful train in some very nice settings.

[@CoasterFan2105]

It was a pretty neat train to see! Thanks so much!

[@S1LLY_CUR3L4M3R_LOV3R]

Good Catches

[@CoasterFan2105]

Thanks!

[@PrincessAmtrakMinamoto]

Great catches with Norfolk Southern. Happy New Year [2023] 🙂👍🏻❤️💖

[@CoasterFan2105]

Thank you! Happy New Year!

[@TranscontinentalRailfan]

Awesome catch! A good way to start of 2023!

[@CoasterFan2105]

It was indeed! Thanks so much!

[@YardLimit]

I love this area and an NS locomotive and two Warbonnets pulling a coal train is great!

[@CoasterFan2105]

A great way to brighten an overcast day! Thank you!

[@socalrailproductions]

Outstanding video to start out the year!

[@CoasterFan2105]

Indeed it was! Thanks for watching!

[@RXMattCARailfan]

Very nice video!!

[@CoasterFan2105]

Thank you!!

[@LEGOLandChannel]

Happy New year 💖☺️😁😊🎈🎉🎊💐💕

[@CoasterFan2105]

Happy New Year!

[@BNSF1458]

Pretty solid lashup here, nice video. Kind of reminds me of the time I saw an NS leading 2 ex-santa fe B40s a few months ago here in Minnesota. I was pretty disappointed about the NS leading though lol, wish it had been the B40-8Ws. What a neat video, happy new year Mike!

[@CoasterFan2105]

Yeah, it's always neat to see solid lashups of Santa Fe locomotives. But, anything is cool! Happy New Year!

[@aaronborrowman495]

Very cool to see, I saw Norfolk Southern 7594 in Tacoma about a year ago. I would definitely like to see more of these in Washington.

[@CoasterFan2105]

Thanks, Aaron! There are a fair number of them that come through the state. I see them a number of times each year.

[@kevp9601]

Happy New Year

[@railsofwesternwashington6877]

Beautiful shots Mike!

[@CoasterFan2105]

Thank you!

[@canadianrailfanproductions7630]

Nice First Video of 2023 Mike!!!

[@CoasterFan2105]

Thank you, Drake!

[@canadianrailfanproductions7630]

Your welcome

[@kevp9601]

Happy New Year And Happy 2023, Mister Mike Armstrong ! !

[@SD40-2]

Happy new year’s!!!

[@CoasterFan2105]

Happy New Year!

[@StormySkyRailProductions]

Another awesome video and catch. Love that lash up. Enjoyed watching and have a nice rest of your Friday.(Steve)

[@CoasterFan2105]

Many thanks, Steve! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@StormySkyRailProductions]

@@CoasterFan2105 Your very welcome.

[@theaustinleeytchanneltalytc]

Happy new year!

[@CoasterFan2105]

Happy New Year!

[@rhettrossalbert]

Great Video Mike! :)

[@CoasterFan2105]

Thank you, Rhett! :)

[@ayannadivineempath]

Just amazing ❤

[@RailfanSam]

Great video as always Mike. Coal trains are always one of my favorite trains but I don’t see them in Oregon unfortunately

[@CoasterFan2105]

Thank you, Sam! Yeah, they don't usually pass through Oregon anymore.

[@ianphillips1455]

Happy new year mr. Armstrong

[@CoasterFan2105]

Happy New Year, Ian!

[@HarborSubHughley]

Fantastic video and catches Mike

[@RailsofCaliV2]

Hi Evan

[@HarborSubHughley]

@@RailsofCaliV2 Hi Daniel

[@CoasterFan2105]

Thanks, Evan!

[@HarborSubHughley]

@@CoasterFan2105 you are welcome

[@wolfgangpfeilergartenbahnd6530]

Great video, very nice film location. Fantastic trains👍👍👍👍👍👍😍

[@najragnajrag8317]

Coal train ns so nice

[@CoasterFan2105]

Indeed! Thanks for watching!

[@raritanbayrailfan2558]

Great way to start off 2023! And to everyone a happy new year!

[@CoasterFan2105]

That it was! Happy New Year!

[@kennyt1674]

Wow that's absolutely awesome great job!

[@CoasterFan2105]

Thank you, Kenny!

[@kennyt1674]

@@CoasterFan2105 no problem mike!

[@Trainboy3982]

Awesome catches Mike

[@CoasterFan2105]

Thank you!

[@Trainboy3982]

@@CoasterFan2105 Your welcome

[@davecook6431]

Happy new year mike

[@CoasterFan2105]

Happy New Year, Dave!

[@Fullerton_Railfan7706]

I love Coasterfan’s videos :)

[@CoasterFan2105]

Thank you! :)

[@Fullerton_Railfan7706]

@@CoasterFan2105 your welcome! 🙂

[@funtechxtream8753]

Almost at 800k!

[@CoasterFan2105]

Very close!

[@Nicola636128]

Awesome catch.

[@CoasterFan2105]

Thanks!

[@bsshiver]

My son and I watch BNSF coal trains powering through Georgia (just south of Atlanta) on NS lines frequently. The first time we spotted one, I was very surprised! The icing on that cake was an Executive paint scheme BNSF engine. After some research on the interwebs, I found out Georgia Power has a contract with BNSF to haul coal. As always, your videos are awesome! Keep up the great work Mike!

[@CoasterFan2105]

Yeah, BNSF runs coal trains all over the country. I think just about all of them come from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming. Thanks so much!

[@dannygayler3164]

Great video with interesting histone of the locomotives , yes please Mike some interesting would be nice !

[@whistlepostproductions4611]

Great video. Looks like some really great spots to shoot out there.

[@CoasterFan2105]

Thank you! Yes, there are a lot of good spots to see trains on this line.

[@vincentcalvelli6452]

Happy New Year Mike

[@CoasterFan2105]

Happy New Year, Vincent!

[@Blaze06]

Nice! I’ve gotten a good start to 2023 myself with a good handful of fakebonnets and NS leaders in my area!

[@CoasterFan2105]

That's awesome!

[@RailsofCaliV2]

I caught the first train you saw idling at Seattle yard!

[@CoasterFan2105]

Awesome!

[@MrSpinosaurusEntertainment]

Congrats on 800K subs, Mike!

[@CoasterFan2105]

Many thanks!

[@funtechxtream8753]

800k! Congrats!

[@CoasterFan2105]

Thank you!

[@Tartaraki808]

It’s quite a interesting lash up. Never thought seeing a NS SD70ACC with two Ex-Santa Fe Locomotives.

[@VickyJupiterClayson]

Wow 😮❤️

[@TheTrainExpert]

This was surely a weird consist to see up here in BC. I was told about this train heading to Roberts Bank, unfortunately I was held up with studies at school and I had to miss out on this train.

[@CoasterFan2105]

It definitely was an unusual consist. The good news is that since it is on one of the "coal loop" trains, there's a chance it will make its way back west with the same consist.

[@geofferywickline4846]

​@@CoasterFan2105 Same here.

[@taslimchoudhary1253]

Nice Video 🍃🌹🇮🇳🌹🍃

[@CoasterFan2105]

Thank you!

[@yankeesforlife24]

Great video. A friend of mine actually saw this when you released it and we found it in Bozeman mt headed west on the MRL.

[@CoasterFan2105]

Haha that's awesome. I saw it come back a couple times before they finally split that power set apart. Neat to see.

[@yankeesforlife24]

@@CoasterFan2105 yes it was. I believe you’ve been to Montana right? We chased it at like 9pm in the dead of winter and pitch dark. Was cool to see. Keep up the great work. Funny thing is one of the guys I was with was an off duty MRL conductor and I’m a bnsf conductor

[@CoasterFan2105]

@@yankeesforlife24 Yes, been to Montana a few times. Great place to see freight. I will, take care.

[@zioraffa]

Suoni speciali!!! Great

[@CoasterFan2105]

Thank you!

[@adventuresofamtrakcascades301]

Ooh a NSSF video! That's a combination I invented for Norfolk Southern and Santa Fe

[@CoasterFan2105]

Neat!

[@GarlandTexasSpotter2024]

I love your videos! Great job Mike! I love trains. Even though I’m more into Aviation lol.

[@CoasterFan2105]

Thanks so much! Planes are pretty neat too!

[@GarlandTexasSpotter2024]

@@CoasterFan2105 Yep! I should start catching trains. 👍🏻

[@FXE-4011]

Santa fe bnsf there are all those locomotives

[@railsofwesternwashington6877]

I saw the same consist go by the Chehalis Virtual Railfan camera

[@CoasterFan2105]

Cool!

[@Nascarfan_4ever27]

The horn on the ns locomotive kind of sounds like a 1st gen k5lla

[@CoasterFan2105]

I'm not sure, but it sounds like it might be a mid 2000s K5LA.

[@stubbsshop]

I've seen NS 1810 twice over the last month and a half on my subdivision over in Western MT. But as a DP not a leader. We end up with NS engines quite a bit, but at least or BNSF locos have fridges where the NS units are just a styrofoam box.

[@CoasterFan2105]

Yeah, that thing has sure made its way around the Northwest. Last I heard, it was still running on the coal loop from Wyoming to B.C.

[@keatonsparksvideoproductions]

Filmed that train empty in white rock, first NS locomotive I saw! It's on my channel

[@ryalexstudios]

Amazing photography! How did you spot a Norfolk Southern-lead train over in Washington?

[@CoasterFan2105]

Thank you! BNSF probably needed to borrow a locomotive, and that was most likely what was available.

[@railfannerofthenorthwest]

12 seconds after I clicked the video I realized what I just missed my chance to see

[@CoasterFan2105]

Believe it or not, the 1810 is still running around on the coal trains here!

[@graphtonix6607]

Hey Mike when will you do more videos on EX Amtrak F40PHR unit 281???

[@CoasterFan2105]

I don't have any immediate plans, but it's always possible!

[@graphtonix6607]

@@CoasterFan2105 OK.

[@JohnDrewVoice]

As a Georgia resident, familiar with daily Norfolk Southern trains, but also a former resident of Wyoming, Idaho, and Oregon, it's fascinating to me that a Norfolk Southern locomotive would be part of the locomotive consist of a coal train out of the Powder River Basin, presumably through Montana, across Idaho and Washington, and then into a Canadian seaport. When a locomotive from the distant Southeast is lashed to such a train, are the engineers from Norfolk Southern or one of the railroads in the region? And how is Norfolk Southern remunerated for use of the locomotive?

[@CoasterFan2105]

You are correct on the routing. The trains run as a set on a loop for a long period of time, sometimes a couple months with the same power sets. They go through Southern Montana on the MRL, then on the BNSF through Idaho, into Washington, then down along the Columbia River to Vancouver, WA and north to Canada. Going back east, they run empty over Stevens Pass because it is more direct. The trains are all crewed by BNSF, even with visiting locomotives. There's a "horsepower hours" agreement in place with a lot of railroads, so if they end up borrowing a locomotive from another RR, they have to "repay" by providing the railroad they borrowed from with one of their locomotives for the same number of operating hours.

[@JohnDrewVoice]

@@CoasterFan2105 Thanks so much. That’s informative.

[@JohnDrewVoice]

I should add that, for a number of years, I was an on-camera spokesperson for CSX, often in the rail yards, on locomotives, in workshops, and on the line of road, and my curiosity has never ceased.

[@Criskena]

How is a NS engine in Washington?,let alone the West Coast!

[@trainfan32]

Not completely sure how, but it happens more common than you think, i even saw a CP unit in LA

[@SD40-2]

It’s a rare NS leader I once saw a CP leader in Stockton California

[@RailsofCaliV2]

NS leaders are more common in SoCal I see it almost everyday

[@trainfan32]

mabey we both saw the same CP unit!

[@CoasterFan2105]

It happens from time to time. Sometimes, railroads are short locomotives in an engine terminal, so they borrow from other railroads. When that happens, there's typically an agreement that the railroad that borrowed the locomotive has to then supply the railroad they borrowed from with a locomotive for the same amount of time. The other time you see locomotives from other railroads on some trains is if the train is a "run through" from another railroad.

[@AstroPghLFilms]

Hi

[@Alandoezrailfanningtrains26]

QA: So Are you gonna railfanning more trains at San Diego California and Seattle Washington?

[@AirlinkTrainsAndAviation_PACQ]

WHAT THE- NORFOLK SOUTHERN FOREIGN POWER

[@kevp9601]

Happy New Year

[@CoasterFan2105]

Happy New Year, Kev!

[@Railfan856]

Fantastic Catches Mike!

[@CoasterFan2105]

Thanks!