Crooked River Gorge, OR - BN woodchip northbound
A few scans from the US Pacific Northwest, taken almost 25 years ago.
I was on a two week plus car trip doing a loop from Seattle, and on this Saturday heading up the Oregon Trunk towards The Dalles on Route 97. We are a few miles north of Redmond here.
The bridge here was the second highest in the USA when opened in 1911, and as far as I know the route is still in use today. The road bridge can be seen in the distance, and I had parked and walked along the top of the gorge simply to get a shot of the railway bridge. Seeing a signal light on green I waited some minutes and this turned up. The locos are BN SD40-2's 7162 & 7134, then GP40-2's 3053 &3045.
Anyone with T.O.Repp's excellent album "Main Streets of the Northwest" wil recognise this bridge from the cover, albeit taken against the light from the road side.
Crooked River Gorge, OR - BN woodchip northbound
A few scans from the US Pacific Northwest, taken almost 25 years ago.
I was on a two week plus car trip doing a loop from Seattle, and on this Saturday heading up the Oregon Trunk towards The Dalles on Route 97. We are a few miles north of Redmond here.
The bridge here was the second highest in the USA when opened in 1911, and as far as I know the route is still in use today. The road bridge can be seen in the distance, and I had parked and walked along the top of the gorge simply to get a shot of the railway bridge. Seeing a signal light on green I waited some minutes and this turned up. The locos are BN SD40-2's 7162 & 7134, then GP40-2's 3053 &3045.
Anyone with T.O.Repp's excellent album "Main Streets of the Northwest" wil recognise this bridge from the cover, albeit taken against the light from the road side.