Rail Car tracking
Tuned
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From: Conroe, TX
Ask your dealer for the Dealer Vehicle Visibility Report. Send the report or the info you have to me in a private message and I'll will look for the railcar number.
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From: Oregon
So I started getting lost in the long thread, can we (or someone) track vehicles shipped on BNSF (or Burlington Northern)?
My salesman is a bit of a lost sheep with orders, I asked him for a rail car number and he asked me where to find it and I sent him to the Vehicle Visibility software and told him it should be there. He hasn't gotten back to me with the car number, but told me it was currently on the move in Central Nebraska on a "Burlington Northern rail car", so I figure if he has that much he should have a car number, right?
My salesman is a bit of a lost sheep with orders, I asked him for a rail car number and he asked me where to find it and I sent him to the Vehicle Visibility software and told him it should be there. He hasn't gotten back to me with the car number, but told me it was currently on the move in Central Nebraska on a "Burlington Northern rail car", so I figure if he has that much he should have a car number, right?
Tuned
Joined: Sep 2016
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From: Conroe, TX
So I started getting lost in the long thread, can we (or someone) track vehicles shipped on BNSF (or Burlington Northern)?
My salesman is a bit of a lost sheep with orders, I asked him for a rail car number and he asked me where to find it and I sent him to the Vehicle Visibility software and told him it should be there. He hasn't gotten back to me with the car number, but told me it was currently on the move in Central Nebraska on a "Burlington Northern rail car", so I figure if he has that much he should have a car number, right?
My salesman is a bit of a lost sheep with orders, I asked him for a rail car number and he asked me where to find it and I sent him to the Vehicle Visibility software and told him it should be there. He hasn't gotten back to me with the car number, but told me it was currently on the move in Central Nebraska on a "Burlington Northern rail car", so I figure if he has that much he should have a car number, right?
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From: Oregon
OK, today my salesman printed it out and I see why he couldn't find the rail car number, it shows the car number as TTGX942431 for CSX as loaded at the ramp in KY. He said he cannot find the rail car number for BNSF. I'm thinking that the truck didn't change rail cars, but just changed tracking systems from CSX near the plant through IN as the first BNSF is listed as in IL.
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From: Oregon
Well, I was able to get myself a BNSF account, my company ships through them and I was able to get added for tracking shipments... 
Their system is not as "detailed" as the Ford stuff at the dealers that tracks at each step, but it doesn't give the date and time in which it is expected to get to my port for offloading... it looks like it will be getting to portland next Tuesday 5/9 at 11:35am I may have to take a long lunch and see if I can see them unload it (opps, my inner stalker is slipping out)
Their system is not as "detailed" as the Ford stuff at the dealers that tracks at each step, but it doesn't give the date and time in which it is expected to get to my port for offloading... it looks like it will be getting to portland next Tuesday 5/9 at 11:35am I may have to take a long lunch and see if I can see them unload it (opps, my inner stalker is slipping out)
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From: Quad Cities Illinois
Also, I forget the name of the street but the overpass is a great vantage point looking over Brooklyn Rail Yard in Portland. I worked there for a bit in 2009-ish. Your truck won't get unloaded there but you might spy the car it's on.
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From: Oregon
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