operating session #20

13 operators attended the operating session here on Nov. 15, 2019, between 10am and 4pm. Dave Enger served as the dispatcher, and the group operated most of the trains that would have run in the morning of a typical day in 1973. At one point in the session, there was a meet between two sets of locomotives that were running light in opposite directions between Everett and Seattle. This unusual move was captured briefly on this video. Here is a shot of one of the engine sets enroute, passing the spur at Golden Gardens leading down to the "Fremont Branch":

Also noteworthy was an all-time record broken by the Stacy yardmaster Don Trettel, who actually used the electronic track scale (on track 8) in Stacy St. Yd to weigh two loaded cars whose waybills indicated that they needed to be weighed. The previous record was zero. Here is a photo of Don proudly displaying his accomplishment, with the scale track and the two cars he just weighed visible in the lower left of the photo.