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I got a late start railfanning after a futile hop over to Hood River
to see what everyone else was up too, but they had already taken off. At
9:46am the P-SSEKCM is about to pass under the bridge over the Columbia
River at The Dalles. |
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11am finds a empty grain train heading east at the Cooks station sign. |
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M-RRBVAW meets the empty grain train at Bingen a few minutes later. |
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At 11:43 our empty grain train is underway again rolling pas Rowland
Lake between Bingen and Lyle, WA. |
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Fourteen minutes late I catch the train again past Lyle. |
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This MEUHK train is stuck behind a MRVHK that is having power problems
and is down to 11mph climbing past the Dalles Dam! |
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This new sign seems friendly enough, might be a good spot for next
year's Gorge Rail. |
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At 2pm the M-PASINB glides under the Hwy14 overpass west of Hood, WA. |
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A short time later the same train is shown at the west switch at Cooks. |
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A little further is Home Valley and the Wind Mountain area. |
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At the Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center is a covered wagon (nickname
for F units) painted in the classic SP&S scheme. The wood stair cases
make it difficult to photograph though. |
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A wood SP&S caboose is not far behind the loco, and is much easier
to photograph. |
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At the Hwy14 overlook between Skamania and Washougal I spot a westbound
stack train. Clouds and Haze didn't help. That is Rooster Rock in the distance. |
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The same train coming by the paper mill in Camas at 4:05pm. |
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Z-CHCPTL catches up with me at Vancouver at 5:14pm |
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A couple of beat up old BN switchers works the Vancouver yard. |
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At 5:39pm a northbound Talgo Cascades train pulls into Vancouver, WA. |
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Meanwhile the M-PASINB pulls onto the Seattle Line, the Amtrak will
crossover to the other main track to get by. |
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Shortly afterwards the Coast Starlight pulls into Vancouver with two
P32BWH and a genesis unit. |
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A herder takes some light power back across the river while a hot Seattle
bound intermodal train throttles up for the trip north at 6:58pm. |
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"Hold your noses!" its UP's USEGL trash train coming by on the near
track at 7:13pm. |
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The V-LAUPTL waits at E-van reflecting the fading light of the day. |
