Three trains at Tukwila Station, 5-5-2014

Today I'm at Tukwila Station, in Tukwila, WA just south of Seattle. There is a new station under construction, as you'll see in the video.

Here the BNSF and UP mainlines are quite close, only 75 yards apart or so. For the first train, I'm standing by the UP main shooting towards the BNSF main. For the 2nd train I moved up to the station platform to get a (very) up close look. For the last train, I was standing near the BNSF main and shooting a train on the UP main.

First up is a short stack train headed southbound and led by BNSF 6651 (ES44C4). One of the DPU locos was a Norfolk Southern unit.

I heard on my scanner as the engineer checked in with the foreman in charge of the Form B restriction near the station. Form B is a track bulletin used when construction is taking place near the tracks. Trains check in with the BNSF foreman in charge of the Form B and get his instructions for passing through those limits. In this case, they were instructed to use lots of bell and whistle to ensure that workers close to the tracks had plenty of warning as the train passed.

Next, I moved onto the platform itself to get real close up shot of the next train. You can see the construction work in progress.
Train number two was a southbound garbage train led by a faded Warbonnet, BNSF 717 (C44-9W). This is the INBROO (Interbay to Roosevelt, WA) and is taking garbage to the landfill there.
Locomotives are really, really huge when you're only 5 feet away! The wind and vibrations from the rushing train really played havoc with the image stabilization feature of my camera, that's why the wavy image in some places.

I was headed back to my car when I heard a train approaching on the UP mainline so I set up quickly and caught UP 7241 (AC44CW) pulling a short freight northbound.
For the shot of the first train, I was standing under the UP overpass next to the three orange barrels.

Stack:
6651 / 6852 / 5087 / NS 1002 / BNSF 9616
ES44C4 / ES44C4 / C44-9W / SD70ACe / SD70MAC

Garbage:
717 / 258
C44-9W / SD75M

Freight:
UP 7241 / 4748 / 4403
AC44CW / SD70M / SD70M