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From the archives: In January of 2003, a BNSF grain train derailed while going through “downtown” Lyle, Washington, creating quite a mess.
A sad structure:
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Those folks over at B&H Photo in New York have never disappointed me with any service issues. My latest tale of good service came this week. Sunday night around 23:00 PDT I placed an order for three items, with ground shipping.
Monday morning I checked my mail around 06:30 PDT, and had a notification that my items had shipped.
That’s good service.
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The Northwest has experienced its own heat wave over the last three days with temperatures exceeding 100 degrees on two occasions. Today on my weekly trip around the Vancouver terminal my motivation to get out of the truck and photograph was low due to the fact its was over 80 degrees with >50% humidity at 9am. I even had a chance to photograph a couple of locations I’ve never shot before, but for some reason standing out in the sun holding the camera didn’t intrigue me. I’m sure all of you who live in places where it is regularly this warm and humid are getting a hearty laugh. Ok, enjoy yourselves.
In place of something from Sunday I offer a photo from the weekend before GorgeRail 2006. After changing crews at Eigth St., a northbound traverses the middle lead past the Vancouver Yard office.
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On Thursday I headed to the Columbia River Gorge, and was surprised to find a nice flow of westbound traffic on the BNSF. The weather was a little warm (105+) but the light was great. I posted one shot from the trip already, and here are some others.
After taking care of the problem mentioned in my previous post, the H-BARVAW exits Tunnel 2 along Drano Lake:
My next shot was of a westbound train exiting Tunnel 5 which is where Highway 14 crosses the tracks in the middle of the tunnel area. I’ve seen this shot before and it never excited me too much. After seeing the results of my efforts I’m still decidedly unexcited:
Here, BNSF 508 west snakes around Dog Mountain, approaching Home Valley:
The lighting was really funky for this next shot, an odd combination of evening sunset light, haze, and some funky cloud shadows. BNSF 643 west is between Cooks and Home Valley:
For a final shot, I found this location near the east end of “downtown” Stevenson and shot the M-PASVBC as it came into town. Unfortunately I got shadow-fucked… such is life:
I’d definitely consider this one of my most successful after-work Gorge adventures.
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In June I made a family vacation trip to Tucson, AZ on UP’s Sunset line. This was my first visit so my railfanning day was primarily a scouting trip just to see the area. I’d done some research so I had a rough idea where some of the better photography locations were.
I headed east of Tucson where the Lordsburg sub crosses two saddles. One of those saddles is between Tucson and Benson and the other between Benson and Manzoro. The grades are not steep over these, but they certainly add some twists to the flat, straight desert running found west of Tucson. I found the most photogenic part is the #2 track east of Vail, through Cienegea Creek to the summit at Mescal. There are literally several dozen of photographable places, some requiring more effort than others.
At Empirita an eastbound stack train climbs up the #2 track to the Mescal summit.
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