January 06, 2006
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On the last day of my trip to Seattle I spent the night in Boise and headed west during morning rush hour.
Eventually, I-84 started closely following Union Pacific's Huntington Subdivision in eastern Oregon, and to
my delight I heard the dispatcher tell a MOW crew that he had an eastbound train coming to Pleasant Valley,
not too far from where I was at the time.
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| Oxman, OR |
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UP 4092 cruises downgrade through the valley of Alder Creek alongside I-84 before swinging east
through a 6-degree-to-4-degree reverse curve. |
| Durkee, OR |
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After navigating the horseshoe curve above Durkee, the eastbound is back up to track speed as it
departs town. |
| Weatherby, OR |
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Approaching Weatherby, I-84 and the Huntington Sub parallel each other through the confines of the
Burnt River canyon; this spot is a mile and a half west of Weatherby siding. |
| Weatherby, OR |
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A mile east of Weatherby, Tunnel No. 6 punches through a spur of Weatherby Mountain; my photo of UP
4092 popping out of the concrete-lined structure would be my last of this chase as I needed to continue
my journey westward. |
| Home Valley, WA |
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Much later in the day I crossed the Columbia River at The Dalles and followed Washington SR 14 west
towards Vancouver. Somewhere around Bingen or Cooks I passed a westbound freight and decided to set up
for a shot I recalled from my Western Road
Trip two and a half years earlier. It started raining pretty hard and I nearly gave up on the shot,
I stuck it out and rather like the resulting view of the H-RRBVAW framed in the portal of the Wind River
bridge with the wispy clouds hiding the distant bluffs of the Columbia River Gorge. |
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