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This bridge crosses the Columbia River. It was raised in 1955 by the Northern Pacific when the water filled behind McNary dam, creating Lake Wallula. McNary dam is about 55 miles downstream from Pasco. This bridge is on BNSF's Spokane to Portland mainline. The Stampede pass line branches off...
For the BNSF, trash IS cash and it hauls a lot of it. Here is an empty trash train headed westbound through the Columbia River Gorge near Bingen, Washington. This train usually has a mix of 2nd generation power such as these 3 SD40-2's.
A few miles south of where I-90 crosses the Columbia River is a quiet town called Beverly. Tucked against the slowly-drifting river in the shadow of the Saddle Mountains, Beverly's most arresting man-made feature hasn't been used for its intended purpose in nearly three decades, now merely...
A long BNSF stack train heads down the Columbia River Gorge on the Washington side of the river. A UP stack train can be seen in front of the lead BNSF locomotive on the Oregon side.
A BNSF transfer from Lake Yard (led by EMDX GP38-2 #838) and a UP light engine move (with a trio of SD90/43MAC's) pace each other across the Columbia River bridge into Vancouver, WA. Unfortunately the BNSF was going faster than the UP, so this was the best I could do. But they were both heading...
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