BNSF 8150 leads a westbound grain train along the Columbia River near Home Valley, WA.

Eastbound stack train at the Lyle Rest Area in the Columbia River Gorge.

Westbound train west of Cooks in the Columbia River Gorge.

A BNSF westbound train pops out of Tunnel 5 in the Columbia River Gorge.

Eastbound Z train east of Bingen in the Columbia River Gorge.

With a good portion of this years snow melting away, a WB empty garbage hold the main at Lyle while a loaded garbage passes. This is creating the illusion that this train is long than it really is... (more)

Westbound train east of Bingen, WA in the Columbia River Gorge.

BNSF Tier 4 3941 leads a westbound manifest freight through a series of four tunnels west of Lyle, WA on the former SP&S mainline along the Columbia River. This is not a drone shot, although we we... (more)

A BNSF grain train rolls west after a meet at Bates, WA. The train is along the Columbia River at Paterson Slough.

Dirty hoppers around Wind Mountain with a Santa Fe rebuild, BNSF 614 2nd out.

BNSF 5257 and 798, the latter in Santa Fe paint, head east with a manifest freight at Dallesport, WA, along the Columbia River and below Mt. Hood. The train is out of Vancouver, WA headed for Pasc... (more)

Snowy grainer rounds the curve near Cook, Wa.

BNSF 8323 is one of two rear DPUs shoving a grain train west toward Wishram having just cleared Bates siding near Paterson Slough along the Columbia Gorge. Across the river is Oregon, I-84 and the... (more)

A westbound grain train nearing Home Valley, WA lead by a Tier 4 GE in the Columbia River Gorge.

A westbound BNSF stack train departs Lyle, Washington, on a beautiful afternoon in the Columbia River Gorge on September 24, 2016. It looks like an intermodal train—but don’t let the container... (more)