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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.

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A Sense of Scale While I sat watching—and shooting—the stack train across the Columbia River on the SP&S (see previous post), a westbound local job showed on the Union Pacific. In the second image then, we see two westbound trains, one in Oregon and one in Washington.

I zoomed in the on the stack train for the last shot, as it makes its way between those splendid living rock formations near the Catherine Creek Recreation Area. Three images by Richard Koenig; taken March 20th 2023.

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Four Tunnels

While I was hanging out at Memaloose State Park, I was able to see a couple more trains, the first being a westbound stack across the river, on the former SP&S, later Burlington Northern, and now BNSF.

I have to say I really was surprised by the scale of the train: this sequence of shots is not what I imagined it would be as I sat waiting for a train. There’s four tunnels here in a short stretch, though my images only show three of them.

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