Author: Rob Jacox
Four days of railfanning the Gorge! Photos from May 17-20, 2013, while railfanning the Columbia River Gorge during the annual "Gorgerail" weekend. The weather was grubby and rainy on Friday, but improved as the weekend went on. (more photos to follow over the next couple of nights)
G-MNXSWA5 westbound grainer, then headed south down the Oregon Trunk Subdivision to California.
C-SXMRBE1 westbound coal train for Roberts Bank, BC.
Westbound Amtak Empire Builder, Portland section.
V-RICCSX4 eastbound vehicle train.
Camp at MP 128 on the BNSF Fallbridge Subdivision, west of Towal, WA.
V-PTLLPC1 eastbound vehicle train.
H-BAKPAS, north & now eastbound manifest.
U-PTWMNU0 eastbound unit oil train.
Z-PTLCHC7 eastbound Z-train.
Eastbound K-Line stacker on the UP Portland Sub.
Eastbound garbage train.
Eastbound garbage train.
Z-CHCPTL9 westbound Z-train.
Z-CHCPTL9 westbound Z-train.
Z-CHCPTL6 westbound Z-train.
U-ROOEVE1 westbound garbage train.
M-SEASPAS4 eastbound manifest.
Eastbound Amtrak Empire Builder, Portland section
Z-PTLCHC6 eastbound Z-train.
M-LVJSPO1 eastbound manifest.
C-SCMRBE1 westbound coal train for Roberts Bank, BC.
Z-CHCPTL westbound Z-train
WB manifest
Z-PTLCHC eastbound Z-train
U-ROOEVE westbound garbage train
Eastbound officers special, made a quick run from Vancouver to Wishram and back. Here it is approaching Wishram on the outbound leg.
Eastbound officers special, made a quick run from Vancouver to Wishram and back. Here it is highaballing out of Wishram on the return trip.
WB manifest, taken 50' from my tent campsite.
EB manifest, taken 50' from our campsite.
WB manifest
Eastbound grain train.
EB grain train.
EB Z-PTLCHC Z-train
EB grcin train. I bet it's heading up the Washy Line to Canada!
EB Z-train cruises through downtown The Dalles, OR. This shot taken from the edge of a public street, next to the gaurdrail. You can nearly touch!the train as it goes by!
NB H-BAKPAS crosses over the UP mainline, the Columbia River, and enters Washington State for a the remainder of it's run east to Pasco.
NB baretable drops down the grade off of the Oregon Trunk, is about to pass under I-84, over the UP Portland Sub., and then the Columbia River.
SB BNSF officer's special crosses the Columbia River, headed south for California on the Oregon Trunk Sub.
SB H-PASBAK? heads down the OregonTrunk Sub. for California.
Mid-train DPU on a SB heading down the Oregon Trunk Sub.
iB manifest
WB grain train
WB manifest
Westbound
Eastbound manifest
WB unit oil train. Lost our light minutes before the train showed up! We watched the shadows grow as the train pulled out of the siding just out of vieq to the right.
EB manifest at MP 99, crossing the Deschutes River.
EB manifest at MP 99, crossing the Deschutes River.
EB Z-train at MP 99.
WB Z-train at MP 99, crossing the Deschutes River.