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23-MAR-2004 Dave Beedon

Dinner Train and the Maltby Turn

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The Spirit of Washington Dinner Train sits quietly at the Renton train station between runs from Renton to Woodinville. Approaching on the right is the Maltby Turn, a freight train that leaves Seattle daily for Renton, Bellevue, and Woodinville (near Maltby). This BNSF train occasionally transports a 737 fuselage that was made in Wichita, Kansas and shipped by rail to Seattle. Those fuselages are switched off at Boeing's big Renton plant, where they enter the final assembly process. A conductor who used to work on the Maltby Turn told me that BNSF locomotive 2189 (seen here) was one of very few in the system that is dedicated to the same train every day. (Thanks, Jim Ross.)

A cropped version of this image acts as wall decor in an apartment building named “95 Burnett.”

UPDATE: In August 2007 the dinner train ceased its Renton operation and moved to Tacoma, 30 miles (48km) south of here. That operation ceased in early November. Starting that same year, BNSF re-built the main line through Renton as part of a bridge replacement project.

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Schulz, Schneider & Co 25-Jan-2024 07:04
Bahnverkehr unterkotzt
Guest 28-Jul-2006 06:43
when I have gauss pressure I take Beano...
Dave Beedon22-Jul-2006 01:22
Larry, danger is my middle name. However, in the interest of maintaining a high standard of honesty and frankness in this visual forum, I must explain that here the danger was not from the trains, but from something invisible: high gauss pressure. Only a few seconds earlier, while standing next to the train depot, I was startled to see the train on the right suddenly stop in its tracks, as it were. (The red dinner train was parked.) It quickly dawned on me that I was witness to yet another magnetic anomaly. Realizing that I had only a few moments of lucidity and full motor control left before getting woozy from the pressure, I quickly snapped this picture and retreated to a safe position.
1moremile21-Jul-2006 23:33
Dave, nice photo. It looks like a dangerous shot to get.
Eldar Kadymov06-Jul-2006 12:53
One should make sure that you're in between the trains, not on the one of the tracks... Just to ensure that you can clearly see ribbons readings on the front and still can provide this support after train passes you by :-) !
Dave Beedon25-Jun-2006 00:49
Your stress level would quickly diminish if you were to think of yourself as just a blue tarp.
Guest 24-Jun-2006 05:12
I was having recurrent dreams : One night, I was an Indian Teepee, The next, a mongolian Yurt. I finally saw a doctor: he said try and relax: Youv'e been two tents.
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