Dreary Day, Cheery Locomotives

by Aaron Hockley

Yesterday was a fairly typical March day in the Pacific Northwest… gray, a bit chilly, with the threat of rain (that materialized in the afternoon).  Nonetheless I headed east with a few railfan friends for some Columbia River Gorge railroad action.  Gotta brush up on my local railfan skills before GorgeRail, ya know?

Here are a few shots from the day… even though the weather wasn’t cooperative, we had some nice power to work with on the trains we saw:

Pick some power; you’ll likely find it on the Z-PTLCHC at North Dalles

Look, Amtrak isn’t the slowest, most broke-down thing in the photo!
The locomotive on Empire Builder #27 passes an old truck at Hood.

I got sick of the Grinstein Green units in coal country but they’re a nice change of pace in the Gorge.
Stay tuned for some of Steve’s photos…

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