BNSF 7486 serves as the DPU on grain empties heading back to the Heartland for another load as seen from high above the Columbia River near Lyle, WA.
After climbing for about 20 minutes up the hill and waiting for nearly two hours, finally we got a train shortly before sunset
Only on early mornings, you can get a shot like this. We were quite happy that this train had helper locos...
The Santa Fe lives on...sort of...on ex-BN tracks...and a modified Warbonnet scheme....close enough for me. An eastbound is seen popping out of one of the tunnels at the Lyle highway rest stop.
BNSF 4379 is the DPU on a westbound freight seen here about to enter one of the tunnels just west of the town of Lyle in the Columbia River Gorge.
An ex-Santa Fe GE bursts out of the short tunnel east of Lyle on its way to Portland. You got to love that red and silver paint.
