Intermodal in San Diego?? BNSF Military Train & More

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Not everyday you see a container train in San Diego... Caught a BNSF military train and other movements, including the Del Mar block and Amtrak 782 with whistle failure. All filmed in Sorrento Valley in August 2019.
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[@BNSFProductions-um9mn]

Poor 7724! That thing has graffiti all over it! 7776 and a few other BNSF locos near that number have that problem too I think.

[@oliverjonahfusco5140]

It's actually not an intermodal, it is a container train. Here's some reasons why intermodal and container trains are different. #1 the train cars. Intermodal cars are well cars, but container train cars are just regular flat cars. #2 the containers. intermodal containers are usually stacked, some of it is one stacked, but container trains have just on stack. #3 the routes. Intermodal trains go on the mainlines but sometimes branch lines. But container trains go on the branch lines and sometime the mainlines. (Please read all)

[@ChachaChapati]

An actual container train! I'm shocked. May be the first train with containers on this line--other than the now-defunct circus train--in at least 20 years.

[@CaliRail]

Nice Catches!

[@sdrailproductions]

What a shocker for intermodal, San Diego did not complain about this huh.

[@Railviation]

I'm soooo mad i missed like 10 of these >:XXX

[@aydenpostigo2910]

3:45 OMG that horn

[@AmtrakandAWVRFan]

Nice catch! I caught the military stack at Carlsbad Village

[@UPDetector]

Nice catches Chris

[@itsyaboiradargaming4377]

The Stack train is probably Memphis bound

[@soarinskies1105]

Yeah sometimes San Diego sends out a Stack Train, Tagged S-SDGMEM and sometimes it also receives guaranteed service intermodals from Pier A at Long Beach, or at least it used to

[@itsyaboiradargaming4377]

@@soarinskies1105 that was just a pure guess but I never actually noticed that till today, how often are these and are the containers just on flat cars the whole trip? Or are well cars added as well

[@ChachaChapati]

@@itsyaboiradargaming4377 There hasn't been a train with well cars originating from San Diego (or headed there) since the '90s.

[@aydenpostigo2910]

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