The Tate to Marietta southbound arrives at Elizabeth with a Patriot Rail painted GP38-3 leading
Like the former SP motor leading this Georgia Northeastern freight, the L&N Depot has a new lease on life as "Freight Kitchen and Tap".
Passing over the competition, a large Georgia Northeastern freight with a colorful consist, still leaves no doubt as to the new owners.
Well into the second shift, Columbia and Cowlitz 701 and companion 702,( ex SP 2407), depart the Longview Fibers complex with a train headed for Rocky Point Yard, the interchange with BN in Kelso,... (more)
Columbia & Cowlitz #312 kicks up mud as it crosses aptly named Industrial Way in Longview.
Columbia & Cowlitz #308 leads the landfill train under I-5. In a few minutes, the train will round Rocky Point and cross the famous Bridge 7 over the Cowlitz River.
With an eclectic pair to say the least, a "Vista Cab" equipped Alco C415 & EMD GP7 provide power for today's Columbia & Cowlitz's Rocky Point Turn heading to Rocky Point yard. Upon arrival they wi... (more)
Columbia & Cowlitz's daily landfill train, led by SW-1500 #308, drifts downhill through Ostrander. Two months latter the Weyerhaeuser switchers, some of which had been on the property since the ea... (more)
Columbia & Cowlitz #308 leads an empty trash train downhill from Headquarters. In just two months the classic Weyerhaeuser switchers would be replaced by Geeps in the generic Patriot Rail scheme.
CLC 701 with crossbucks as the Rocky Point turn snakes thru the backyards and residental streets of Longview, WA
CLC 700 in your face in Longview, WA
CLC's Rocky Point Turn shoves his train hard up the hill so he can then reverse direction and continue west across the Cowlitz River Bridge towards Longview
Columbia and Cowlitz's Rocky Point Turn heads back to Longview, throttling up as he has just cleared the bridge over the Cowlitz River
Columbia and Cowlitz's Rocky Point Turn switches the north end of Rocky Point Yard as UP's MPSPD works the south end
Good look at the more modern section of the trestle between Kelso and Longview, WA.