The weather looked good and with a little extra time I decided to spend April 22, 2006 chasing some trains on the Lakeside Sub.  A good friend came along with me, and we had a lot of fun.  First up we found an eastbound Z-PTLCHC train sitting at Babb siding.  We drove down to the west end to wait for the westbound.  It arrived around 4pm with a long string of manifest cars (BNSF 855(patched), NS ????, DMIR 407).  I liked the looks of the consist and since we had lots of good sun I decided to chase it west.  We got another picture at Tokio, WA where we finally caught up to it.  Next we waited around for a little while and the Lind Turn showed up with a lease unit on the point (EMDX 791, BN 2741(patched)).  It slowed way down and then stopped at CFI to do some work.  It dropped off 2 tank cars and picked up 4.  After getting pictures off all the action we headed a couple miles west to the siding of Tokio.

     The Lind Turn pulled into the siding and dropped off all its cars at the east end.  Then the power pulled down to the west end to run around the train.  But before the power could come back out on the main an eastbound hopper train rumbled through (BNSF 4095, 807, 7843).  Next we decided to head back east following the hopper train so we wouldn't miss anything.  We got all the way to Sprague where the eastbound went into the hole.  So we set up for the westbound a little bit out of town.  It came rolling down the hill around 6:30pm with a long string of hopper cars (BNSF 4040, 4884, 4315).  Next we continued east until we ran into another westbound leaving Fishtrap.  After a quick turn around and chase we caught it at Missile Base where we got several pictures of it (BN 7035, ????(both patched), BNSF 8605, NREX 5413).  It was the Z-CHCPTL.  Finally we arrived at Babb where we got our last westbound for the day.  It was a loaded grain train with one DPU (BNSF 5104, ????, ????).  After that the sun was gone so we headed back home.   Not too bad a day for only 4 hours of train watching.