Flying along the Columbia River just east of Mt. Pleasant, Washington, is a westbound BNSF intermodal train on September 25, 2016. The lone DPU has just blasted out of the west portal of 2382-foot... (more)

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An empty BNSF garbage train heads west through the first of an immediate series of four tunnels just west of Lyle. The end of the train can be seen on the right side of the plateau formation.

A BNSF grainer skirts along the Columbia River just west of the small town of Lyle, Washington.

A BNSF grainer makes a grand entrance into the sunshine of eastern Skamania County.

Happy New Year everybody, see you all trackside in 2018. A morning BNSF Z rounds into Avery along the Columbia River. Mount Hood looms in the distance on this windy morning.

A trio of Oakway SD60s hustle an empty grain train east along the Columbia River as the sun sets on another day of photography.

Westbound BNSF 4038 and 7058 lead a partially loaded container train about to meet an eastbound near Lyle, WA in the Columbia River Gorge.

On BNSF’s Fallbridge Subdivision in the scenic Columbia River Gorge is an eastbound freight exiting Tunnel 8 west of Lyle, Washington, on September 24, 2016.

BNSF 5405 leads a train of empty grain cars around the sweeping curve at Underwood, WA. In the background is the 1924 Hood River bridge from Bingen, WA to Hood River, OR across the Columbia River.

Canadian potash train running west at MP 99 on UP's Portland Sub at Moody, crossing the Deschutes River, OR. The Columbia River is seen in the upper left.

WB grain wends its way along the Columbia River a couple of miles west of Maryhill, WA

Hot on the heels of an empty garbage train, BN's Bingen/Home Valley heads west along the Columbia River back to Vancouver, Washington.

After a rainy morning a narrow band of sunshine aligns with BNSF 7693 on a westbound autorack train at Horsethief Lake, Columbia Hills State Park along the Columbia River.

BNSF 4319 West, a loaded coal train, makes its way along the river below eroded volcanic bluffs.