First day of my trip to the States and I had been speaking to the engineer of this train and they said that they were heading south over this bridge. had to wait and take the picture.

In front of impressive Mt. Hood, BNSF 5482 leads a mixed manifest eastwards along Columbia River

An empty coal train heading east along the Columbia river

Backing its train onto the Oregon Trunk Wye to turn it to be able to head back toward Portland.

BNSF 7421 West leads another train down the Gorge, seen here from high above Wishram, WA on a Hwy. 14 pull-off as an eastbound waits to get out of the yard.

As seen from high above on the Oregon side of the Columbia River, a BNSF freight speeds east bound for Pasco, passing the Oregon Trunk bridge just west of Wishram.

SP 4449 has reached Wishram on it's second excursion of the weekend and is off-loading its hungry passengers for a BBQ lunch at the Amtrak station. From my vantage point high above along Hwy. 14,... (more)

SP 4449 nears Wishram with Mt. Hood in the distance.

About 1/2 mile from arriving at station.

Wying train on the Oregon Trunk bridge. The Wishram station is to the right (east) where the passengers were detrained. Then the train was backed on to the bridge via the east leg of the wye. H... (more)

Coming off the Oregon Trunk. Third unit is NS.

BN 2524,4260,4366,4364 await a new crew at Wishram. BN was plagued with crew shortages and power problems in the Pacific Northwest at the time and this job with its 122 cars had quite the problem ... (more)