Running seven hours behind schedule, the Empire Builder rolls westward through the Columbia River Gorge. Melonas siding was built in 2017. It is named to honor a family that has produced three gen... (more)
Westbound garbage train with a SD75I leading.
Trinidad Hill A morning BNSF Z-train climbs the 1% grade of Trinidad Hill. The rails have been climbing since crossing the Columbia River at Rock Island and will soon transverse the Trinid... (more)
CM&E Alco C415 684 switches Curis WA on a dreary Day in September 1977
LONGVIEW WA May 24 1984 — Columbia & Cowlitz C-415s CLC 701 and CLC 702 idle at the Weyerhauser facility. Fellow railfan Greg Hall and I headed up to my sister's in Vancouver WA for a week's wor... (more)
Switching passenger cars in Seattle is Amtrak SW1200 (SSB1200) 565. Built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division as Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe SW1200 2439 in June 1959, this locomotive was reb... (more)
Eastbound garbage train at Cliffs.
Westbound coal train at Cliffs.
Roughly 50 miles from the end of the line in Portland, the Empire Builder races west through the Columbia River Gorge.
BNSF 676 takes the lead of a LAUPAS coming into Ritzville, Washington. Peyton Boyd and Spencer Montgomery are seen trying to get pacing shots as we race it into town.
Eastbound manifest train east of the east switch of Maryhill.
Eastbound manifest train approaching the west switch of Maryhill.
After getting more water in Wishram, WA the BNSF fire train heads west to continue to help fight the Tunnel 5 fire west of Bingen, WA.
The Portland Section of the Empire Builder crosses the causeway at Horsethief Lake.
