Railroads Illustrated magazine’s A Day in North America brings railfans all over the North American continent track side on a single day each year to capture railroading as it is. For my day I headed to the Columbia River gorge with the goal of photographing a couple of places I have never spent much time at. For the most part I was able to capture what I wanted however the right trains and the right light weren’t always at the same location at the same time. I guess that’s the challenge of railfan photography even when its not DINA.
The DPU on a westbound grainer goes back to idle as 110 cars ahead the head end has passed an approach medium to east Bingen
An empty grainer sprints between tunnels 5 and 6 east of Cooks
As the day wore on rain showers became more regular and between about 2:30 and 4:30 west of Bingen it was pretty much a rain out. At 4:30 the skies cleared and the light was fabulous. I think the trains however were afraid of getting wet because they all ran away and hid. Such is life on DINA.
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