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BNSF 4303 leads the BCHCSSE508A across Nason creek at Gaynor, WA. The crew was told that they would head in at Berne to wait for maintenance crews to get out of the Cascade tunnel.
A westbound auto rack crossing over the Nason Creek and White Pines road trestle and about to enter the slot a slice cut thru a rock formation for the road bed, pulling hard up grade to the top of Stevens Pass to Berne and the summit and then in to the Cascade tunnel and on down the other side...
BNSF 7537 gets help from one of CN's finest SD70M-2s as it descends the 2.2% grade on the East side of BNSF's Stevens pass line. The 7537 was delivered on May 22nd and it is on it's second revenue run on BNSF.
BNSF 7909 with a fistful of "Rent a Wrecks" leads a BNSF stack train west across BNSF Bridge 1694.1 over Nason Creek.
(Nason Creek was what John Stevens followed when finding the GN route across the Cascades)