BNSF and the US Open

Thanks for the update, Bill. You are correct, with the tracks so close by, it could be very interesting for the players.

 

Beautiful area of our country.

Wow.  That is combining two of my interests.  Will be fun to see if we get to see or hear any engines on the TV broadcast.

 

Art

The 2015 US Open poster will end up in more than a few train rooms.

 

 

For more on the US Open from Puget Sound:

 

http://www.theolympian.com/201...took-an-ice-age.html

 

http://www.oil-electric.com/20...at-chambers-bay.html

 

 

I had not heard of this course till the U.S. Open.  I watched a segment on the Golf Channel about the building of Chambers Bay the other day and that segment included a BNSF manifest freight passing the course.

 

Chambers Bay seems to share many characteristics with St. Andrews in terms of the relative bleakness of the course.  I'm guessing this course will create a number of frustrated pro golfers between now and Sunday.  If I were handicapping; I'd bet on the Europeans this week.

 

Curt

I was watching a local newscast the other evening when they showed a shot of the course which had a couple of BNSF engines in the background.  One could also see Union Pacific and Amtrak trains, too.

Larry

Watching it today on Fox Sports 1, a set of BNSF pumpkings with a K-Line container freight came to a standstill along side the 16th hole. I guess the engineer wanted to watch a little bit of the US Open or maybe Buffet was hitching a ride.

 

    Bill T.

In watching the Open you can hear the trains going by in the background, especially if you have 5.1 audio. No mention what the sound was from the announcers, but the sound was unmistakeable.

 

Several minutes later there was a great shot of the train going by the 15th green as golfers hit from the elevated tee.

 

 

Watching the Open now.  Awesome shots of both golf and trains!   During one of the promos about Chambers Bay, they said somewhere around 60 trains pass along those tracks each day! 

Just had a massive Union Pacific Intermodal coast by, as Tiger made his par putt on 17. 

Awful day for TW, it's amazing how far he has fallen.

I can see the headlines now -

 

"Tiger Woods game derailed at Chambers Bay!"

 

 "Can he get his game back on track?"

 

 

Lionel Grandpa...

One of the announcers literally said that, "can Tiger get his game back on track?" 

He then proceeded to hit one of the worst shots of his career, topped 3 wood from middle of fairway on 18.

Sad to watch.