I was set up to shoot this lumbering westbound manifest when a fast stacker approached eastbound on the near track. Point the camera in a likely direction and hope for the best...
Eastbound Z.
Stack/Z
Grain
UP stack train heads east past the grain elevator in Biggs with Mt Hood some 40 miles in the background.
A westbound UP stack train catches sunlight in a sweeping curve west of Biggs.
A lean-over-the-top-of-the-fence shot of the head end of an eastbound at the mouth of the Deschutes River.
The beauty of the Columbia River basin is ruined by the Union Pacific's lack of pride in the appearance of UP 5462!