Wilburton trestle

[shadesman89]

has anyone heard of the Wilburton trestle in Bellevue Washington it was a bnsf fuselage bridge and route before it was deactivated in 2007 and can anyone make Bellevue maybe

google Wilburton trestle

[shadesman89]

sorry to bring this up again



I do not know how to model

BTW do you think bnsf will reactivate the trestle the railbed is still intact

[ErikGorbiHamilton]

sorry to bring this up again



I do not know how to model

BTW do you think bnsf will reactivate the trestle the railbed is still intact

The Woodinville sub was sold off to 4 owners. The line is in bad shape and the crossings have been "Customized" With Ped Xing signs. It is VERY UNLIKELY that the Woodinville sub will be returned to service.

[shadesman89]

I do not know how to model

BTW do you think bnsf will reactivate the trestle the railbed is still intact[/quote]


The Woodinville sub was sold off to 4 owners. The line is in bad shape and the crossings have been "Customized" With Ped Xing signs. It is VERY UNLIKELY that the Woodinville sub will be returned to service.[/quote]

It's in belleve

[shadesman89]

sorry to bring this up again





I do not know how to model

BTW do you think bnsf will reactivate the trestle the railbed is still intact

The Woodinville sub was sold off to 4 owners. The line is in bad shape and the crossings have been "Customized" With Ped Xing signs. It is VERY UNLIKELY that the Woodinville sub will be returned to service.

What do you mean bad shape?

Does anyone know why there is about a mile of abandoned BNSF well cars around Olympia parallel to interstate 5?

[DrewG]

You don't need to bump a topic 2 hours after you last posted in it. From what I've heard usually domestic shipping is done in 53ft containers and 20- 40ft for international. After a 30 second Google search I found these were 48ft which are not used very much anymore so these will be either scraped, lengthened, or shortened. Railways often use abandoned tracks for storage which is the reason they are there.

[ErikGorbiHamilton]

You don't need to bump a topic 2 hours after you last posted in it. From what I've heard usually domestic shipping is done in 53ft containers and 20- 40ft for international. After a 30 second Google search I found these were 48ft which are not used very much anymore so these will be either scraped, lengthened, or shortened. Railways often use abandoned tracks for storage which is the reason they are there.

The tracks aren't abandoned, There moth balled. The tracks in question are the old MILW from Fredrickson WA to Chehalis Wa (Yep, I misspell names). At one point there was a rumor going around that the BNSF wanted to upgrade the MILW to modern Standards to run excess freight over. Funny enough, the first train i ever caught on the line was a BNSF ES44C4 #6600 shoving not 48ft wells, not 53ft wells, But the modern and in use 40ft well cars.

[shadesman89]

When did you see it the line was shut down in 2007 also it's all gated upa and the crossings all have been taken down
Plus some parts of the track are ripped apart

Yay found this some of them are goin to be rebuilt
http://tdn.com/news/state-and-regional/ ... 963f4.html

Didn't green bearer manufacture the maxi cars?

[shadesman89]

Also 53 foots are not that common anymore? Are they being replacd by the 40s?

Are 53s and 48s being phased out?

[DrewG]

53ft is used mainly for domestic. 48 is being phased out because it's quite large for international and they can fit more 40ft containers on ships. Also people can for more in a 53ft than a 48ft.

[shadesman89]

Can't the 48s also hold 40containrs

[shadesman89]

Why would they store those baretables there cant they just use them to haul 40fts instead?

Plus a noticed a couple BNSF ones with their newh3 swish.logo why would they store those?

[buzz456]

Thread drift.