BNSF 6142 has a loaded coal train headed west at Lyle, WA. The train is crossing the Lake Chamberlain causeway along the Columbia River and is about to enter tunnel 10, the first of a series of fo... (more)
A BNSF eastbound vehicle train threads through the four tunnels west of Lyle, WA along the Columbia River near Chamberlain Lake. The train is exiting Tunnel 7 and headed into Tunnel 8. Tunnels 9 a... (more)
BNSF 7876 rolls an eastbound manifest through a thread of 4 tunnels west of Lyle, WA along the Columbia River. This train was a treat due to the pair of SD40-2s in the consist, presumably heading ... (more)
BNSF 4834 with some help from CN GEs has a lengthy manifest cruising west over the Chamberlain Lake causeway and through Tunnel 10 along the Columbia River west of Lyle, WA. This train appears to ... (more)
Rolling east through cuts of volcanic rock along the Columbia River, BNSF 7720 has a daily garbage train in tow. The 7720 is an older ES44DC, among the last units to sport BNSF's Heritage II schem... (more)
Southern Railway's famous Rathole Division had nothing on the former SP&S mainline along the Columbia River in Washington state. Here BNSF 5755 rolls a loaded coal train through Jackson Tunnel, th... (more)
A westbound BNSF stack train departs Lyle, Washington, on a beautiful afternoon in the Columbia River Gorge on September 24, 2016. It looks like an intermodal train—but don’t let the container... (more)
In the heart of the Columbia Gorge, a BNSF eastbound manifest emerges from Tunnel 7 just west of Lyle, Washington on the BNSF Fallbridge Subdivision, and will soon roll through Tunnels 8 and 9. T... (more)
With Labor Day weekend in full swing, a BNSF grain passes Hewett Lake in the Columbia River Gorge.
BNSF 4625 heads west along the Columbia River near Lyle, WA. The train is exiting Tunnel 10, Jackson's Tunnel, and will thread through three more in short order on its way west to Vancouver, WA. C... (more)
Westbound coal loads exit the first tunnel west of Lyle and are about to enter the second.
A loaded grain train heads west after waiting for Amtrak's Empire Builder to pass.
Priority intermodal Z-CHCPTL blasts out of a tunnel and into Lyle, Washington.
After waiting for Amtrak's Empire Builder to pass, a loaded coal train heads west along the Columbia River on BNSF's Fallbridge Subdivision.
The Chicago-Portland Z train is on the home stretch of its over 1,000 mile journey, passing the sleepy fishing town of Lyle.