I live on the Scenic Sub across the river on the south fork of the Skykomish at the Sunset Falls BNSF bridge. I saw this fire train go by. For the record, one of the key functions of the fire trains is to wet down track side brush and combustibles and put out any hot spots or smaller fires near the track. The Bolt Creek fire never really got close enough to the sub for the water canons on that caboose to be used as far as I know but I may be incorrect if the poster actually knows that this train did fight any part of the wild fire. The fire was actually NW of Skykomish, but the prevailing winds were blowing smoke and ash the direction of Skykomish, leading to the evacuation, like Grotto and Baring, adjacent communities to the fire. Regardless, I'm glad somebody caught a glimpse of this train here in Western Washington, something we have rarely seen, but we may be seeing a lot more of if we have any more fires. Nice work catching this unique piece or railroad equipment.
I wish I could have gotten them in action but no way was I going to be able to get in there. As far as Skykomish no I don’t think it was in danger of fire itself but it did come near the tracks along hwy 2. Just before hwy 2 mp 43 roughly track mp 1737 the tracks are on the north side and the fire came very close if not up to the tracks. At mp 43 the tracks pass under the highway to it’s south side. From there down to mp 44 track mp 1736 on the north side of Grotto the fire did come to the highway and jumped a couple places and that is where the fire train worked. If you want to see just where the fire is and how close it came to things here’s a link to the active fire map. snoco-gis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/basic/index.html?appid=da7d6a80a5d143a3ad964e0befb861a8 Also you can see things are much better as far as alert levels go. Highway is still closed and is expected to remain closed for months because of rockslides, falling trees, there’s pictures of a 50 inch trees crashed down on the road at the tunnel mp 46, and fire fighting equipment. As soon as I can get in there I promise to post video.
gold bar was never under an evac of any kind. evac line for level one has never gone beyond city limits. -someone who lives just outside city limits and was included in the evac lvl one area which ended early today.
oops yup ok I see the title error,Evacuation Levels: There have been no significant changes to the fire through the day. The fire remains active, evacuation notices remain the same. Level 3 (GO now!): Index Level 2 (Set): Between Index and Zeke’s Level 1 (Ready): Zeke’s to Gold Bar east city limits
I remember when this started, I was just like, holy crap, skykomish is gonna burn!
Thank god it didnt
Thank you from penna.
I live on the Scenic Sub across the river on the south fork of the Skykomish at the Sunset Falls BNSF bridge. I saw this fire train go by. For the record, one of the key functions of the fire trains is to wet down track side brush and combustibles and put out any hot spots or smaller fires near the track. The Bolt Creek fire never really got close enough to the sub for the water canons on that caboose to be used as far as I know but I may be incorrect if the poster actually knows that this train did fight any part of the wild fire. The fire was actually NW of Skykomish, but the prevailing winds were blowing smoke and ash the direction of Skykomish, leading to the evacuation, like Grotto and Baring, adjacent communities to the fire. Regardless, I'm glad somebody caught a glimpse of this train here in Western Washington, something we have rarely seen, but we may be seeing a lot more of if we have any more fires. Nice work catching this unique piece or railroad equipment.
I wish I could have gotten them in action but no way was I going to be able to get in there. As far as Skykomish no I don’t think it was in danger of fire itself but it did come near the tracks along hwy 2. Just before hwy 2 mp 43 roughly track mp 1737 the tracks are on the north side and the fire came very close if not up to the tracks. At mp 43 the tracks pass under the highway to it’s south side. From there down to mp 44 track mp 1736 on the north side of Grotto the fire did come to the highway and jumped a couple places and that is where the fire train worked. If you want to see just where the fire is and how close it came to things here’s a link to the active fire map.
snoco-gis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/basic/index.html?appid=da7d6a80a5d143a3ad964e0befb861a8
Also you can see things are much better as far as alert levels go. Highway is still closed and is expected to remain closed for months because of rockslides, falling trees, there’s pictures of a 50 inch trees crashed down on the road at the tunnel mp 46, and fire fighting equipment. As soon as I can get in there I promise to post video.
Thx for the video. The camera shake was a bit to much.
gold bar was never under an evac of any kind. evac line for level one has never gone beyond city limits.
-someone who lives just outside city limits and was included in the evac lvl one area which ended early today.
oops yup ok I see the title error,Evacuation Levels:
There have been no significant changes to the fire through the day. The fire remains active, evacuation notices remain the same.
Level 3 (GO now!): Index
Level 2 (Set): Between Index and Zeke’s
Level 1 (Ready): Zeke’s to Gold Bar east city limits
@@LoneStarRails yeah, just don't want to scare anyone who shouldn't be worried.
Staging is right across from my girlfriends cousins house across the street in the beginning with the big white truck lol
Thank you for the info..God bless.
Wow amazing how they setup like that right there good video!
People doing 9/11 commerations:
BNSF:
Thanks Gold Bar
Like the ex fuel tender in the mix
surprised that tanker still exists let alone the torture it got being in between 2 locos at times.
4 locos---must be some very heavy water!
Thank you for this!
Wonder what was in those tankers.
Water I hope
bet they some fire retardant somewhere....
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I have pics of it up in Baring .it was good to see the RR protecting their investments it was a good piece of mind seeing that thing
They shoved up the hill that far?!?!?!?! O.o