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  1. Late Baby Builder

    Late Baby Builder

    Amtrak 27 is roughly four hours late as it rolls through Washougal, Washington. The train's next station stop will be at Vancouver, in around 20 minutes. If no additional delays occur, the Empire Builder should reach its terminous at Union Station in Portland within an hour.
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    • amtrak bnsf empire builder fallbridge subdivision passenger train siemens charger slc-42 superliner washington washougal
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    • Category: Amtrak and other US Passenger Trains
  2. 20th Century Power

    20th Century Power

    A trio of locomotives built in the 1990s leads a loaded garbage train in March 2022.
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    • bnsf columbia river gorge garbage train gp60 sd75m washington
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Western United States
  3. Southbound Bare Table

    Southbound Bare Table

    Heading toward Portland in Vancouver, WA
    • Youngwarrior
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    • bnsf vancouver washington
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    • Category: Western United States
  4. UP 8934

    UP 8934

    Leading a northbound UP intermodal across the Columbia River into Vancouver, WA.
    • Youngwarrior
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    • intermodal union pacific up vancouver washington
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    • Category: Western United States
  5. Westbound Oil

    Westbound Oil

    A snowstorm looms in the background as a westbound oil train passes through Sprague, WA.
    • Youngwarrior
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    • bnsf oil sprague storm train washington
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    • Category: Burlington Northern Santa Fe
  6. Westbound Intermodal

    Westbound Intermodal

    Round the curve at Underwood, WA
    • Youngwarrior
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    • bnsf columbia gorge intermodal stack train underwood washington
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    • Category: Western United States
  7. Westbound Grain Train

    Westbound Grain Train

    This train came from the Oregon Trunk and had two CP locomotives in the consist.
    • Youngwarrior
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    • bnsf canadian pacific columbia gorge cooks cp grain train washington
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Western United States
  8. Empire Builder

    Empire Builder

    Arriving in Wishram, WA
    • Youngwarrior
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    • amtrak empire builder passenger train washington wishram
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    • Category: Amtrak and other US Passenger Trains
  9. Eastbound Manifest

    Eastbound Manifest

    At the summit of Providence Hill, WA.
    • Youngwarrior
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    • bnsf manifest ns providence hill train washington
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    • Category: Western United States
  10. Yard Limit

    Trackside in Bellingham, WA

    Bellingham is one of the best places in the state to railfan. There's a fair amount of traffic and a nice mixture of manifest and unit trains.
  11. Yard Limit

    Slow Trains at Howarth Park, Everett WA

  12. Yard Limit

    Electic Motive Power in Stanwood, WA

    This is the best collection of motive power I've ever seen on one train.
  13. Yard Limit

    BNSF 6569 Pulls Empty Oil Cans Near Anacortes, WA

    What could be better than a cold day with blowing rain than a long unit train of oil tankers?
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    Empty Oil Train Over the Swinomish Channel Bridge

    Coming off the BNSF Bellingham Subdivision in Washington, is the Anacortes Spur which goes west to Anacortes, WA. The primary traffic for this spur are oil trains bringing crude from the Bakken formation in North Dakota, to the refineries in Anacortes. There are usually two trains per day; one...
  15. Yard Limit

    Mukilteo Trains over 4th of July Weekend.

    Mukilteo, WA is a great place to railfan.
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    BNSF Bellingham Subdivision

    Saturday, October 10, 2014, along the BNSF Bellingham Subdivision brought strong winds and rain. BNSF 4882 leads a mixed consist train northbound just beyond the Bellingham station. The next morning, the weather cleared and the usual beautiful fall skies returned. Running on time, Amtrak...
  17. Leaning from the rocks

    Leaning from the rocks

    Westbound on the old SP&S in the Columbia River Gorge
    • p51
    • Media item
    • bnsf columbia washington
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Western United States
  18. Heat in the gorge

    Heat in the gorge

    Westbound on the old SP&S in the Columbia River Gorge
    • p51
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    • bnsf columbia washington
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Western United States
  19. Through the gap

    Through the gap

    Westbound on the old SP&S in the Columbia River Gorge
    • p51
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    • bnsf columbia washington
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Western United States
  20. Tunnel vision

    Tunnel vision

    Tunnel 1.5 on the old SP&S in the Columbia River Gorge
    • p51
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    • bnsf columbia washington
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Western United States



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