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By:Maddie Farnsworth
Dates:1/4/2015 - 1/4/2015
Album Info:Washington and Idaho Railway shoving baretables in the snow near Pullman Washington.
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Shoving up the hill
Title:  Shoving up the hill
Description:  WIR #20 on the end of a nearly 2 mile long string of baretables going into storage.
Photo Date:  1/4/2015  Upload Date: 1/5/2015 1:35:58 AM
Location:  Fallon, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
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Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  248   Comments: 0
Into the snow
Title:  Into the snow
Description:  WIR #20 at the end of a seemingly endless string of storage cars.
Photo Date:  1/4/2015  Upload Date: 1/5/2015 1:36:07 AM
Location:  Fallon, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
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Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  167   Comments: 0
WIR 20
Title:  WIR 20
Description:  WIR #20 at the end of a seemingly endless string of storage cars.
Photo Date:  1/4/2015  Upload Date: 1/5/2015 1:36:14 AM
Location:  Fallon, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
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Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  180   Comments: 0
Inching across
Title:  Inching across
Description:  The tail end of the baretable storage train is being slowly backed across a farm road crossing at Whelan. This is not a blind shove, the conductor is behind me watching the move.
Photo Date:  1/4/2015  Upload Date: 1/5/2015 1:36:19 AM
Location:  Whelan, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
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Views:  163   Comments: 0
Baretables as far as the eye can see....
Title:  Baretables as far as the eye can see....
Description:  The train streaches into the distance and fades from sight.
Photo Date:  1/4/2015  Upload Date: 1/5/2015 1:36:26 AM
Location:  Whelan, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
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Views:  148   Comments: 0
Old elevator at Whelan
Title:  Old elevator at Whelan
Description:  There is not much in Whelan these days. An old abandoned grain elevator sits on a lonely siding, neither of which has been used in decades.
Photo Date:  1/4/2015  Upload Date: 1/5/2015 1:36:32 AM
Location:  Whelan, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
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Views:  146   Comments: 0
Poking around the bend
Title:  Poking around the bend
Description:  The tail end of the train has just crossed the road and heads into a corner, approaching the city of Pullman. The conductor keeps a watchful eye from his warm truck.
Photo Date:  1/4/2015  Upload Date: 1/5/2015 1:36:37 AM
Location:  Whelan, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
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Views:  161   Comments: 0
Empty well cars
Title:  Empty well cars
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Photo Date:  1/4/2015  Upload Date: 1/5/2015 1:36:40 AM
Location:  Whelan, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
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Views:  122   Comments: 0
String of baretables
Title:  String of baretables
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Photo Date:  1/4/2015  Upload Date: 1/5/2015 1:36:44 AM
Location:  Whelan, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
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Views:  130   Comments: 0
Dinosaurs in this day and age
Title:  Dinosaurs in this day and age
Description:  A few sets of old 1980's era well cars lie in the middle of the storage train. These cars with the braces to support the top container are becoming rare, with interbox connectors making the tall braces nothing more than extra weight and unneeded steel.
Photo Date:  1/4/2015  Upload Date: 1/5/2015 1:36:48 AM
Location:  Whelan, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
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Views:  167   Comments: 1
String of baretables Vol 2
Title:  String of baretables Vol 2
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/4/2015  Upload Date: 1/5/2015 1:36:52 AM
Location:  Whelan, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
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Views:  134   Comments: 0
That 'll do!
Title:  That 'll do!
Description:  The train had been shoved just up to the Pullman City Limits. From here, the crew will begin tieing down hand brakes and splitting crossings.
Photo Date:  1/4/2015  Upload Date: 1/5/2015 1:36:56 AM
Location:  Pullman, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
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Views:  236   Comments: 0
Setting hand brakes
Title:  Setting hand brakes
Description:  A crew member sets the last of the hand brakes on the string, and makes a cut in the set of cars to clear the crossing.
Photo Date:  1/4/2015  Upload Date: 1/5/2015 1:37:01 AM
Location:  Whelan, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
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Views:  133   Comments: 0
Its a cold job
Title:  Its a cold job
Description:  But somebody's got to do it.
Photo Date:  1/4/2015  Upload Date: 1/5/2015 1:37:06 AM
Location:  Whelan, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
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Views:  136   Comments: 0
#20 at Whelan
Title:  #20 at Whelan
Description:  #20 pauses in Whelan, as the crew ties down handbrakes. The first set of cars will be pulled clear of the crossing.
Photo Date:  1/4/2015  Upload Date: 1/5/2015 1:37:11 AM
Location:  Whelan, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
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Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  143   Comments: 0
#20 at Whelan
Title:  #20 at Whelan
Description:  #20 pauses in Whelan, as the crew ties down handbrakes. The first set of cars will be pulled clear of the crossing.
Photo Date:  1/4/2015  Upload Date: 1/5/2015 1:37:15 AM
Location:  Whelan, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  149   Comments: 0
Backing to Falllon, landscape shot
Title:  Backing to Falllon, landscape shot
Description:  #20 backing to Fallon with all its lights ablaze.
Photo Date:  1/4/2015  Upload Date: 1/5/2015 1:37:18 AM
Location:  Whelan, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
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Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  156   Comments: 0
Backing to Falllon, portrait shot
Title:  Backing to Falllon, portrait shot
Description:  #20 backing to Fallon with all its lights ablaze.
Photo Date:  1/4/2015  Upload Date: 1/5/2015 1:37:21 AM
Location:  Whelan, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WIR 20(GP30M)
Views:  168   Comments: 1
So you want to be a train conductor?
Title:  So you want to be a train conductor?
Description:  A crew member walks back to his truck after a long cold time of setting handbrakes on a string of storage cars.
Photo Date:  1/4/2015  Upload Date: 1/5/2015 1:37:25 AM
Location:  Whelan, WA
Author:  Matt Farnsworth
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Views:  158   Comments: 0


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