#lylewa

[railwayhistorical]

Inspection Train Within minutes of seeing the Portland section of Amtrak's Empire Builder, this inspection train followed. As in my earlier post of the passenger train, this job is headed westward along the Columbia River between Lyle and Bingen, Washington. The line here is the former Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway—later Burlington Northern and now BNSF. One image by Richard Koenig; taken March 20th 2023.

[railwayhistorical]

Reward

After a long wait for any action on either railroad adjacent to the Columbia River, I was finally rewarded with this eastbound stack on the Union Pacific. This line was once the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company with the SP&S on the other side.

The location here, on the Oregon side, is near a rest stop on I-84 that seems to be adjacent to, or part of, Memaloose State Park. In the second and third shots, we are looking eastward toward Lyle, Washington, on the opposite shore of the Columbia River.

Three images by Richard Koenig; taken March 20th 2023.

[painfully-addictive]

We live In a beautiful world, if only we stopped destroying it..