Boeing 737 fuselages are manufactured in a plant in Kansas and transported by rail for final assembly into a plane at Boeing's plant in Renton, WA; located in the Seattle area at the south end of Lake Washington. Special flatcars are used to transport the fuselages and other parts.
Sometimes the flatcars are at the head of a freight train, but other times the cars constitute a train onto themselves. Tuesday (10/22) I caught one of these trains stopped at Mile Post 18 below Sunset Ave. in Edmonds. I got ready to photograph a meet with an oncoming train, but the Boeing train just sat for a few minutes before getting the green light to proceed. BNSF engineers are rated on their fuel consumption. Unnecessary stops and starts like this eat up fuel and drive the engineers crazy.
My 18-35mm wide angle zoom lens distorts the fuselage and flatcars. The Edmonds-Kingston ferry is barely visible in the fog.
Closeup views of the fuselages and modified flatcars.
The fuselages are numbered in sequence with the number stenciled on the nose. This is the 4,707th fuselage to pass by Sunset Ave.
Fuselage #4705.
Sometimes the flatcars are at the head of a freight train, but other times the cars constitute a train onto themselves. Tuesday (10/22) I caught one of these trains stopped at Mile Post 18 below Sunset Ave. in Edmonds. I got ready to photograph a meet with an oncoming train, but the Boeing train just sat for a few minutes before getting the green light to proceed. BNSF engineers are rated on their fuel consumption. Unnecessary stops and starts like this eat up fuel and drive the engineers crazy.
My 18-35mm wide angle zoom lens distorts the fuselage and flatcars. The Edmonds-Kingston ferry is barely visible in the fog.
Closeup views of the fuselages and modified flatcars.
The fuselages are numbered in sequence with the number stenciled on the nose. This is the 4,707th fuselage to pass by Sunset Ave.
Fuselage #4705.
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