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  1. Cliffs

    Comment by 'Cliffs' in media 'Westbound Grain at Sunset'

    Excellent location highlighting the distant bluffs and those marching telephone poles near McNary Dam's north shore access road.
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  2. High-Ball Mryhill.jpg

    High-Ball Mryhill.jpg

    West-Bound empty garbage cans roll through East Maryhill on 12 OCT 2011.
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    • Category: Western United States
  3. Approaching Summit.jpg

    Approaching Summit.jpg

    Afternoon sunlight highlights the exhaust streams of two R&S motors as they round a curve a little west of Summit MT.
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    • Category: Western United States
  4. Replacement Bridge Span.jpg

    Replacement Bridge Span.jpg

    SD&S towboat Dauby pushes the Drano Lake replacement bridge span up the Columbia river at Cascade Locks.
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    • Category: Western United States
  5. SD75i at East Towal.jpg

    SD75i at East Towal.jpg

    Headed for the Roosevelt landfill, SD75i is in charge of a rather long set of garbage cans. SD75i 293, GP60B 343, C44-9W 4401, SD75i 279. The 4401 has had that Santa Fe red nose door for many years.
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    • Category: Western United States
  6. Oregon Trunk Elephants.jpg

    Oregon Trunk Elephants.jpg

    SB Grainer exits Tunnel #1 on BNSF's Oregon Trunk with UP's Portland Sub MP-99 Curve in the foreground.
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    • Category: Western United States
  7. Cliffs

    Visiting from Australia to Washington State - where to go for best coverage

    If you are able to tune in, here are the live radio feeds for the east and west sides of the Yakima sub. The eastern feed page also has a couple of timetables. West Side http://www.railroadradio.net/content/view/220/274/ East Side http://www.railroadradio.net/content/view/15/136/ Back when I...
  8. Cliffs

    NKP 190 On The Move

    East-Bound on the Fall Bridge sub, past Cliffs (MP-118.6) at about 09:20 this morning. Lead loco BNSF 6781. Here a couple of snaps.
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    Go By Rail.jpg

    Always the opportunists, two crows patiently await a possible spilled free-bee while sitting atop the middle street light.
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  10. Switching at The Dalles.jpg

    Switching at The Dalles.jpg

    The Olympic Torch unit does some switching at The Dalles, OR while the Geep takes the weekend off.
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    • Category: Heritage Units - Union Pacific
  11. Sound Transit -- In Transit.jpg

    Sound Transit -- In Transit.jpg

    New rolling stock for Sound Transit over-nights in Rufus, OR.
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    • Category: Western United States
  12. Empty Coalers at Dixon.jpg

    Empty Coalers at Dixon.jpg

    EB Empty Coalers roll through Dixon, MT on a cloudy September, 2016 afternoon
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    • Category: Western United States
  13. Cliffs

    Comment by 'Cliffs' in media 'Digging In.jpg'

    Thanks CP. The Columbia Basin's trip to Connell drifted down the gulley and into Connell at about 12:30 on 27 SEP 2015. I think this is a daily operation. These 567-powered motors came back up the gulley at about 14:30. This location is just a little ways uphill from the Moon Rd. crossing.
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  14. Snow Shed 7.jpg

    Snow Shed 7.jpg

    EB manifest exiting Snow Shed #7 growling up the western approach to Marias Pass, prior to cresting the Continental Divide at Summit.
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  15. H-1 Parade.jpg

    H-1 Parade.jpg

    WB Manifest crossing the Clark Fork river prior to entering Paradise, MT.
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    • Category: Western United States
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    Visiting from Australia to Washington State - where to go for best coverage

    Many of the higher traffic areas have been mentioned. The Columbia Basin RR serves a large chunk of Central WA. Here is their service map. They run down to Connell weekdays, and maybe some weekends too, in order to exchange traffic with the BNSF turn that comes up from Pasco. Usually about...
  17. Digging In.jpg

    Digging In.jpg

    Four Columbia Basin Railway 567-powered Geeps pull the day's manifest up the grade from Connell. 27 SEP 2015
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  18. Untanum Crossing.jpg

    Untanum Crossing.jpg

    An empty BNSF grainer skirts the Yakima river as it passes the Untanum Creek Trail's footbridge. 19 MAR 2016
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  19. Hard Left Turn.jpg

    Hard Left Turn.jpg

    A WB stacker descends the east leg of the Trinidad "Loop" and begins crossing the earth-fill section.
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  20. Approacing Trinidad.jpg

    Approacing Trinidad.jpg

    After crossing the Fill-Section of the Trinidad "Loop", a WB stacker approaches Trinidad, WA and the final descent to Water-Level Running along the Columbia river.
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