An Eastbound double stack train heads past Rock Island Dam while following along the Columbia River.

BN 1792, an X-Great Northern GP9 leads 1754 a former NP Geep on the weekly Mansfield local. The train has just left the mainline at Columbia River siding and has started up a draw through apple or... (more)

BNSF 7625 leads an eastbound Q train along the Columbia River below the Rock Island dam near Albus siding as it prepares to head up the 16 mile 1 percent grade to Quincy through Trinidad loop.

Three BNSF GE Dash 9s power a westbound “Z” train out of Columbia River east of Rock Island, Washington, on May 14, 2010.

Its the end of the day's light as DPU BNSF 5760 gives a shove to an eastbound coal train starting up the 16 mile 1% grade from here to Quincy. The train will climb out of the Columbia River valley... (more)

The Spud Local heads east dodging in and out of morning fog along the Columbia River. The local originates in Appleyard (Wenatchee) and makes weekday runs to work the agricultural industries at Qu... (more)

BNSF 9206 leads an eastbound empty coal train along the Palisades of the Columbia River just east of the Rock Island dam in the last light of the day. The train is about to start its 1% grade 16 m... (more)

A BNSF coal train cruises east along the Columbia River below the Rock Island dam in the last sunlight of the day. It will meet the Quincy local at Albus (Columbia River siding) in a matter of sec... (more)

A tardy Empire Builder rolls west along the Columbia River just east of Rock Island, WA. Next stop Wenatchee. The April 15 schedule change resulted in daylight running through Wenatchee and over S... (more)

It's fall and the Columbia River valley is socked in as an eastbound BN freight eases across the Rock Island bridge over the Columbia east of Wenatchee, WA. this view shows the reconstruction of t... (more)

F45s BN 6643 and 6638 lead GP39-2 2710 on the head end of an eastbound manifest freight as it accelerates away from the Rock Island bridge it had just crossed over the Columbia River. The train is... (more)

BN 1792 and 1754 rev up after slowing to cross the Rock Island bridge over the Columbia River at Rock Island, WA, about 12 miles east of Wenatchee. The x-GN and x-NP GP9s have 40 empty 40 ft. boxc... (more)

A BNSF South Seattle-Chicago intermodal cruises along the Columbia River after its crew change in Wenatchee about 15 miles west of this location. It had met a late running Empire Builder at Malaga... (more)

UP 6925 leads a BNSF westbound manifest through Rock Island, WA on the last lap into Appleyard at Wenatchee, WA. BNSF typically runs no more than one manifest each way daily on the former GN mainl... (more)

BNSF 745 races an eastbound Z train past a stored "bare table" train at Albus (Columbia River) siding east of Rock Island. The Z train will begin its 16 mile climb out of the Columbia River basin ... (more)