I'm trying to get a confirmed routing of the Plains all American Crude oil train that just recently started up between Canada in Bakersfield. I believe it runs Eastport to Portland, then down the I-5 Corridor, but I have someone who is insisting it runs on BNSF and has a BNSF symbol which makes no sense to me.
Apparently Plains All American is being tightlipped about this train.
The train runs with all new PPRX tank cars with the impact protection shields. Neat train. I caught the return train last night.
Canadian unit crude in PPRX tank cars does indeed come south through Eastport and Portland via UP to Bakersfield. Rolls right behind my house in north Idaho. Photographed a northbound empty train just last week. That's not to say that BNSF doesn't have their own Canada-Bakersfield unit crude train.
Given the current terrorist events in Europe and the anti-oil attitude of the Greenies in the west, they probably want to keep it quiet for security reasons.
Norm
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