After working customers in Quincy the "Spud Local", based out of Wenatchee, rolls down the siding at West Quincy to wait for a meet with an approaching uphill PTLKCK V-train.

A Chicago to South Seattle Z train descends the long 1% grade from Quincy to Albus siding as it slows to 25 mph to negotiate Trinidad Loop (in the background). From late March to June, the usual b... (more)

Code lines and cattails along a fast, straight track at 15:11 PM near Adams Road east of Quincy.

After pulling up the hill from the Columbia River to the Plateau into a snow flurry, a Chicago bound Z train is about one mile out of the industrial section in Quincy and will pick two cars there ... (more)

The train is still passing over the loop as the head end peeks around a cliff on the descent to the Columbia River at Trinidad.

A Wenatchee based local with GP38s 2328 and 2286 stops on the main and prepares to back into the Celite Corp's Kenite plant in Quincy.

The GrandLuxe Great Northwestern National Parks train, looking rather small as it climbs up out of the Columbia river gorge and heads for the Trinidad loop, gaining over 600 feet of elevation. more)

Late in the day, a westbound stack train cruises past the rebuilt depot at Quincy.

BNSF 2286 with 2328 back into the Celite - Kenite plant at Quincy

Westbound descending to Columbia River