You bring the MILW coast train down to Seattle from Bellingham on BN trackage rights, interchanging with BN at Everett and again at Argo in South Seattle, and head into "Tacoma Tideflats" staging. Then you take a MILW switcher and sort out everything you have in Argo yard (including interchanging cars with UP, which also uses Argo). Then you take a cut up to the Pt. Townsend car barge slip near Stacy St. yard and unload/load the car barge, returning to Argo to sort it all out. Then you take any cars up and back from the MILW freight terminal east of Stacy St. yard against the backdrop and the aforementioned auto loading tracks at P90/91 on the west side of Interbay yard, and return to Argo yard again, and make up a cut for the northbound MILW coast train. You then park the switcher for the day, and bring in a northbound MILW coast train from staging (perhaps the same one you started with, which you might have turned and backed into staging earlier). Pick up your northbound cars from Argo, head to Everett, do another interchange move if needed, and run to Bellingham staging. Oh, and did I mention that while switching Argo you do an interchange transfer run to/from the BN at Stacy St. yard? Or that you do all this while staying out of the way of all BN operations? Whew - that's a long (and interesting, in my opinion!) day!!
