Railroad

Last updated: 7-28-02

BNSF

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160.035 Victoria
160.215 Tacoma (unverified)
160.230 Fife Yard or Argo Yard (unverified)
160.260 Green Mountain repeater.  Heard units in Snohomish.
160.320 supposedly BNSF Delta Yard.  Heard miscellaneous simplex comms.
160.335 unknown usage. Hear data bursts about every 4 minutes.
160.380 Cascade Tunnel (unverified)
160.470 Seattle Yard
160.590 (PBX) Snohomish/Skagit/Whatcom co.
160.620 (PBX) "MRAS"
160.650 Balmer Yard, Tacoma Yard (unverified)
160.665 Operations - Thurston Co.
160.710 ARES data bursts from trains
160.725 unknown. Supposedly BNSF
160.740 Spokane (unverified)
160.800 Yakima Valley Terminal (unverified)
160.830 Stacy Yard (unverified), also hear repair crews on this freq.
160.920 Seattle East
160.980 South Seattle Ramp (unverified)
161.010 miscellaneous yard usage
161.100 Mainline (Everett east past Skykomish). Also detectors.
161.160 South Seattle Yard. "Seattle Terminal Dispatcher"
161.250 Delta & Bayside Yard, Bridge 37, Line Everett north to Canada. Also detectors.
161.250 Harbor Island (unverified)
161.250 BNSF Ellensburg-Seattle (thanks Don !)
161.310 Seattle Yard, Balmer Hump, Tacoma Yard (unverified)
161.370 work crews, "North Service 5"
161.400 unknown BNSF. Occasional data bursts.
161.415 Centralia North
161.415 CN Joint Vancouver BC (unverified)
161.460 Puget Sound & Pacific channel 2 (unverified)
161.475 Puget Sound & Pacific channel 1 (unverified)
161.505 Seattle Yard (unverified)
161.550 appears to be a yard channel.
457.9125 unknown BNSF
457.9375 FRED transmitters
452.900  unknown
452.9125    "
452.950     "
911.500     "
918.500     "

936.8875, 936.9375, 936.9875  ATCS transmitters - I have yet to hear activity
on these freqs however I've seen 900mhz beam antennas at some local railroad
crossings. For more info see www.atcsmon.com


Union Pacific
160.290 (PBX)  Haven't heard it in a while. Possibly abandoned.
160.350 160.410 160.800  Argo Yard and Fife Yard (unverified)
160.515 supposedly Main Line 1. Heard unit "Harbor Tower" and references to Marginal Way
160.740 Main Line 2 (unverified)
160.605 (PBX)  also some strange tone data bursts
160.680 Yard channel
161.235 Thurston County
160.785 Klamath Falls (Oregon)  

AMTRAK
160.455 supposedly Amtrak's on-board freq.
160.620 BNSF/Amtrak (PBX) "MRAS"

Tacoma Rail


161.070 161.145 

160.575 161.190 161.295 161.445 (unverified)



Simpson Timber Railroad (Shelton)
160.440 161.340 

160.845 161.085 (unverified)


Curtis Milburn Railroad (Thurston Co.)
160.245 


Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad
160.635 (unverified)

Mt. Vernon Terminal Railway
160.875 (unverified)

BC Rail
160.305 BC Rail (Vancouver)

Puget Sound Historic Railway
161.355 (unverified)

Chehalis-Centralia Railroad
no frequencies on file

Lake Whatcom Railway
no frequencies on file

Other
160.275 unknown. Comes in too weak at my place to copy.
160.380 units "Quebec Base" and "Papa 3". No idea who it is.
160.530 unknown
160.785 Unknown railroad - rarely used
160.950 Unknown railroad
160.980 Unknown railroad. Possibly Canada.
160.995 repeater input
161.025 unknown railroad
161.175 unknown railroad
161.325 unknown railroad
161.430 unknown
161.520 repeater input, also unknown simplex comms.