Hauling a stack train upgrade through "The Slot" alongside Nason Creek in Washington State's Cascade Mountains.

An eastbound Z coasts downhill through a winter wonderland at "The Slot" alongside Nason Creek in Washington State's Cascade Mountains.

Empire Builder #8 came up behind the rail train in the darkness at Scenic, Washington, stopped about three minutes for a signal, then made its move toward the tunnel. Using a second curtain flash ... (more)

Boeing fuselages ride a westbound vehicle train in the Cascade Mountains on a snowy winter afternoon near Merritt, Washington. The location is familiarly known as "The Slot".

A muddy pond just west of the small Columbia River town of Mosier provides a reflective scene for this eastbound Z train.

An eastbound stack train moves along the north bank through the scenic Columbia River Gorge during a morning in late October. The rear of the train is still inside the Drano tunnels.

On an eastbound trip up the Columbia River the ZPDG2 leans into an elevated curve at Crates, just outside of The Dalles, Oregon.

In the late afternoon a Portland, Oregon bound Z train rounds the bend at Wind Mountain as it approaches the community of Home Valley along the north bank of the Columbia River.

Kalama, Washington bound grainer at the edge of town about to duck under the entry road at The Dalles dam along the Columbia River.

An eastbound runs adjacent to HWY 30 and I-84 on the wide curve at MP 99 and nears the Deschutes River bridge west of Biggs, OR. The tunnel above the UP tracks is on the BNSF's Oregon Trunk line.... (more)

Hauling grain westbound through the Columbia River Gorge.

At Cooks in the Columbia River Gorge a three-way meet is being set up. A westbound oil train is waiting on the main while the eastbound MVAWPAS pulls up the siding. The oiler will then clear out a... (more)

Grain in the Gorge. It's autumn, and time for the railroad to be busy hauling the seasonal grain harvest west to the shipping terminals.

A Logistics Park (Joliet), IL to Tacoma, WA stack train with a leased Citirail leader moves westbound down the Columbia River Gorge and over the Rowland Lake causeway .

A bad order three-pack needed to be set out at Stevenson one fine morning, delaying an eastbound trip for a short while.