Between Lyle and Bingen 4.13.13 a Z train and a barge.

The pear trees are in bloom and it's trying to snow at the higher elevations.

Union Pacific winds it's way up the Columbia River Gorge, thru scenic Ruthton Point.

BN 1750 and 4 other vintage units lead a freight west through tunnel 9, the first of 3 tunnels just west of Lyle, WA along the Columbia River en route to Vancouver, WA from Wishram.

Grain

Leaving Lyle
A westbound BNSF freight threads Tunnel 10 and is about to enter Tunnel 9, just west of Lyle, Washington, on May 30, 2008.

Westbound Z-9.

A westbound BNSF garbage train cruises by Rowland Lake on a large arcing fill just east of Bingen, Washington, in the Columbia River Gorge on May 30, 2008. Power for the train on this windy day we... (more)

Springtime along the Columbia: An eastbound BNSF vehicle train passes the shores of Horsethief Lake near Wishram, Washington, on May 30, 2008.

BNSF 4817 east leads a detouring Z-SSECHC6-21A as it approaches Avery,WA, taken from the shoulder of I-84 on the Oregon Side on December 21, 2012

Union Pacific 844 at Memaloose State eastbound to the Pendleton Rodeo.