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    Railroad Scene 2016
    Railroad Scene 2016
    Railroad Scene 2016
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    Railroad Scene 2016

    By Bob Campbell

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    A long time coming, that's for sure.
    Of course, they say the best things come to those who wait.
    They also say all sorts of other stuff that's not necessarily true, either.
    The good news is this time I hope you'll find at least one or two gems in the pile. Because there's a big pile of pictures packed in here. And like all of the modern Long - Long - Short . Long - series of books, I try to include locomotive identification, full registry numbers of units pictured, and possibly more details about any given picture than one could pretend to care about.
    While this book is heavy on the BNSF Vancouver Center of operations in Southwest Washington (the state - any WA mentioned is on the West Coast for me), I also try to give enough exposure to other roads and liveries to give a realistic impression of what life was like "way back in 2016." (Laugh if you will, but people around me tire of hearing what it was like when you actually *dialed* a phone on a round dial and listened to the little clicks as it wound back around. Let alone the ridicule I get when I say, "We need to find a phone booth so we can look it up in the phonebook.")
    This collection of pictures and mild prose covers every from:
    the seasonal changes (rain, cold rain, and warm rain) in and around Washington as it pertains to steel rails...
    Livery and power changes witnessed on the tracks...
    Support, maintenance, and rail side activity...
    Action on the main line...
    Cool and odd (and lucky) finds involving all things railroad...
    Views of various Western states and train activity found there...
    Specific virtual trips around and through Washington and Oregon...
    ... to a cool jaunt to all my favorite train spotting locations on the west side of Vancouver (USA - not Canada. The "other" Vancouver is a couple hundred miles to the north of us, so, please, don't be confused when you don't find a single "Eh?" in the entire book.)
    So notch it up to Run-8, snag your copy, and start your journey.
    (This version of the book includes secret bonus sections and other fun discoveries awaiting to be found.)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBob Campbell
    Release dateFeb 2, 2020
    ISBN9780463314883
    Railroad Scene 2016
    Author

    Bob Campbell

    The short of it: over-educated, unemployed, and annoying with a camera. Quite possibly a dangerous combination.The long of it:I've been snapping pictures for over a quarter-of-a-century on equipment ranging from a Pentax k1000 to Canon SX700hs - but nothing fancier. In fact, after they retired my Kodachrome 64 film, I hung up the 'real cameras' and settled for "digital pocket snappers." It seems ninety percent of the challenge to taking pictures is to remember your camera (would seem obvious, wouldn't it? But look around at the folks with large, fancy cameras - no wonder they claim the phone-based lens will be the death of real photography). So I do my part and pack it almost everywhere.I was a latecomer to photography, though, so I had time to grow up in many different parts of the country with my formative stage in the South, but junior high and onward in the Pacific Northwest. The last set of initials after my name tacked on by the Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine - making the 'highest degree attained' line of the survey read Doctor of Veterinary Medicine.I still live in the state of Washington with my lovely wife of over two decades who continues to be an invaluable accomplice. For any hazard I manage to avoid, our son does his best to ensure we'll see an early grave.Having spent a little time teaching, I've grown to miss a captive audience to inflict my photography upon, so thank you Smashwords for providing me a forum for dispersing my imagery pain to be loosed upon the world.

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      Book preview

      Railroad Scene 2016 - Bob Campbell

      Long - Long - Short . Long -

      Railroad Scene 2016

      Bob Campbell

      Copyright February 2, 2020 C. Robert Campbell

      Photography & Images Copyright 2020 Bob Campbell

      Cover Info: BNSF 2367 (GP38-2) pulling out from the lower BNSF Vancouver Center yard during local shift-and-sort duty off the mainline to the west on Port of Vancouver entrance next to United Grain's holding yard. Old Mersk blue container crane hanging over the Columbia River in the background. Technology currently precludes the scratch 'n sniff option as there's a distinct odor associated with this image: immediately to the right is Vancouver's waste water treatment facility. April 27, 2016, Vancouver, WA.

      Thanks to my family for putting up with my need to pull off the road or otherwise aim a camera at passing trains and rail activity. The good news is that I promise not to snap any more pictures in the 20-teens. Well, at least not until they invent a reliable time machine that doesn't involve death and sub-atomic dissociation as a required side-effect. I know, bummer, right? (Before anyone panics thinking I've given up the camera, look again on the publication date. I'm crazy, not stupid.)

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your very own personal enjoyment only. The series of ones and zeros that comprise this work may not be resold or given away to other humanoids or sentient beings. If you would like to share this ebook with another, please purchase an additional copy for him, her, or it. If you're reading this ebook and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased specifically for your own personal use, then duck-and-cover, because Karma has a way of happening - so don't chance it - just make a little digital trip to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your very own copy. Thank you for respecting my efforts.

      : Table of Contents :

      Introduction

      Warning

      New By-Pass Lane at Vancouver Center

      Weather on the Rails

      A Lack of Class (another world beyond Class I rails)

      Foreign Visitors to Vancouver, WA

      Across the Western US

      Working On the Railroad

      Action

      Random Weirdness

      Changing Livery

      Passenger Train Changes

      Rolling Stock

      Seasons

      Washington and Oregon Wanderings

      Vancouver Train Spotting Trip

      Conclusion

      Confusion (Epilogue)

      Master Index

      Other Works by Bob Campbell

      - Not Another Travel Guide

      - Not Another Travel Guide: High Octane

      - Railroad Photography

      About the Author & Contact Information

      _ _ . _

      Preamble: We the People, In Order To Form a More Perfect Onion...

      It was a long road, but this book is sort of here: railroading around 2016. Ignore the fact that's it's been several years since this book got started, with obvious good intentions to complete it in a timely fashion. Some sort of noise about a path being paved with good intention - if only I could ever stay on track long enough to even procrastinate about it correctly. The odd part was it was great motivation to get Railway Scene 2018 done soon after a new calendar was hung upon the wall. Which fostered a 'we can do it' attitude for Train Scene 2017 - which had been sitting in various shapes and forms just a little longer than this particular 2016 rendition. Turned out trying to get creative with organization was my downfall (among many stumbling blocks). To the tune of this book being composed over the course of several years. Which is my long winded way to say: forgive the disjointed prose and ruptured synaptic temporal flow: you're getting a book forged over a significant period of time. Thank you for your understanding. (UP 8119 (AC45CCTE) single pusher behind eastbound double stack as she rounds the bend leaving the Philippi Canyon cut-off area (actually a touch east of it... the approaching train wasn't going to wait for me to get to the actual turn-off/exit) November 27, 2016, Philippi Canyon, OR.)

      Sorry: what that was meant to say was... the book is organized such that you can probably ignore the rambling stuff immediately below the picture because I'll try to put the more important train-type details as a parenthetical bit after this annoying bunch of characters. Give or take. (BNSF 4393 (C44-9W) - BNSF 7480 (ES44DC) double-header covered hopper line-up holding on red along the eastern edge of the Connell ladder yard and associated single-tracked main passing lane, November 26, 2016, Connell, WA.)

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      Introduction

      Another day, another toot... another anxious look around me. (CBRW 651 (SD19-1) leading a dual-unit, single freight car, toward the Connell BNSF-Local interchange yard, August 15, 2016, Shano, WA)

      Although, joking aside, the Whistles are growing fewer with each passing month. Every time I turn around, it seems folks are forgetting our country's railroad heritage. (BNSF 1746 (SD40-2) still decked out in ATSF/Santa Fe yellow-bonnet livery working the local, older lower yards in Vancouver near United Grain in early spring, March 18, 2016)

      Worse, sometimes it seems people just want the whole business to go away. At the very least, Knock it off with that infernal horn! (BNSF 8019 (ES44C4) - BNSF 5301 (C44-9W) double-header northbound covered hopper group silently cruising through the double-crossing of Connell, WA - silent for the past year having been made a 'No Horn Zone' after over a century of lonesome whistle blows).

      Although, truth be told, in our area up here in the Pacific Northwest, folks seem to forget, rail traffic is some of the most environmentally friendly ways to keep our country moving... eating, driving, and even enjoying the benefits of modern electricity. Yet, not a week goes by someone isn't calling for a cessation of rail movements of coal, oil, or other goods. ( CREX 1429 (ES44AC) SPU on northbound oil can/pipeline on rails, Dec 23, 2016, Vancouver - skirting the edge of Vancouver Lake, running north out of Vancouver Center and the ladder yards.)

      And when outside influences aren't trying to stop my beloved train traffic, economics and Father Time seem to be against me. (BNSF 568054 gondola on the edge of an abandoned crossing in the last remnants of pulling up rail and history in Ada, OK, June 23, 2016)

      So before another batch of scenes slip away into forgotten fog, I'd like to share with you some of the railroad scenes of the year two thousand sixteen. (BNSF 2767 (GP39E) running long-nose first north, back across the Columbia River and out of the pea-soup blanketing the region with a local freight group from Oregon to Vancouver Center and the multiple small ladder yards that make up the sort facility here in Vancouver, Washington, December 21, 2016.)

      I hope you enjoy the ride, because it was a lot more calm this year without the threat of Weekly Training forcing my hand. (BNSF 2093 (GP38-2) idling in quiet contemplation near the Vancouver Amtrak Station and Columbia River turn-style train bridge on bridge protection duty, January 23, 2016.)

      ((Modern note: Wow, this book was started a long time ago, because Weekly Training would've been freshly published right after 2015.))

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