All --
The Boeing Company's Everett WA plant, where they assemble 747, 767, and 777
airplanes, is served by a BNSF spur on a 4.5 percent grade. Lots of airplane
components are shipped there from all over the world. Boeing was very fussy
with the BN (before BNSF) about the side of the car that had to face the
unloading dock. Unfortunately, reality often didn't match the spec.
Boeing Facilities department learned of a surplus 1880-era turntable (I do not
remember where) that was about to be scrapped. Boeing acquired it and
installed it at Everett. It has been used for a couple of decades now to turn
cars loaded with aircraft parts. Now everybody's happy -- the BNSF doesn't
have to worry about which way the cars face, and Boeing doesn't have to call
BNSF to come get loaded cars, haul them some 15 miles, wye them, and bring them
back.
Dick Karnes
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