Chris Guss
Slow ride
A Columbia Walla Walla winds down the 1 percent grade and around the horseshoe into Valley Grove (in the distance) on the former Union Pacific branch from Walla Walla to Dayton, Washington.
The locomotives on the train are as rare as the train itself. The pair of GP49s are two of nine ever built, all for Alaska Railroad in the early 1980s, while the last time CWW operated a train to Dayton was way back in May of this year.
It was a painfully slow chase, with track speed down to 5mph, making the trip approximately five hours from Walla Walla to Dayton.
Slow ride
A Columbia Walla Walla winds down the 1 percent grade and around the horseshoe into Valley Grove (in the distance) on the former Union Pacific branch from Walla Walla to Dayton, Washington.
The locomotives on the train are as rare as the train itself. The pair of GP49s are two of nine ever built, all for Alaska Railroad in the early 1980s, while the last time CWW operated a train to Dayton was way back in May of this year.
It was a painfully slow chase, with track speed down to 5mph, making the trip approximately five hours from Walla Walla to Dayton.