Passenger Trains > Charging through the Gorge

Just 53 miles from Portland and running 90 minutes late, the Empire Builder approaches Stevenson, Washington yesterday evening.

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Could be a publicity shot forr Amtrak!  Nice.

texchief1
 

Excellent composition. Thanks for sharing.

Tom

Great picture!

Posted from Android

Crisp photo, looks great!

Rich

Congrats on a well deserved IOTD. Good location, neat angle and composition, it really shows off that sharp paint scheme on the long-distance Chargers.

MC

Very nice..!!

Posted from Android

Nice angle!

mapboy

Great picture, Greg.  I agree with texchief1, it certainly could be a publicity picture.  I watched it pass through Stevenson as I was waiting outside the Big River Grill to be seated for dinner.

Great Majestic photo GoatBoat!
Image of the Day Well Deserved.
- Andy

Looks like at least up to 325 are in service. Where are they roaming? Just on 7/8 mostly? I've seen a couple on 11/14 from photos. 

Mike ONeill
Parker, CO

mcdeo Wrote:
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> Looks like at least up to 325 are in service.
> Where are they roaming? Just on 7/8 mostly? I've
> seen a couple on 11/14 from photos. 

7/8, 11/14, and 58/59

Outstanding photo!

Jim700 Wrote:
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> Great picture, Greg.  I agree with texchief1, it
> certainly could be a publicity picture.  I
> watched it pass through Stevenson as I was waiting
> outside the Big River Grill to be seated for
> dinner.

Ty. It has been a while since we've been out to the Big River Grill.  How was it?



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Goatboat Wrote:
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> Jim700 Wrote:
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> >  . . .  I watched it pass through Stevenson as I was
> >  waiting outside the Big River Grill to be seated for dinner.

> Ty. It has been a while since we've been out to the Big River Grill.  How was it?


Excellent as usual, Greg.  After church my friend Romelle Reid and I had driven to Carson to place flowers on her son's grave and we stopped to eat at the Big River Grill on the way back to the Portland area to take her home.  I ordered their Corned Beef Reuben sandwich which is huge.  I ate the second half of it for lunch on Tuesday when I was running the Aerotrain on the Washington Park & Zoo Railway.  The blackberry cream pie for dessert was really good also.

Romelle is from a multi-generation SP&S family also.  Her father was the agent at Skamania for many years.  While she was in grade school, her family was living in the agent's quarters in the Skamania depot when it burned in March 1947.  After the replacement depot also burned, the SP&S closed the agency and her father moved to the Vancouver agency and, finally, to the Camas agency after an older-seniority agent retired.  Her late husband worked on an SP&S survey crew during his college years.

In the second picture you can see the westbound passenger train's conductor or brakeman helping to save family possessions from the burning depot.  In the third picture the (probably) fireman is attempting to aid the firefighting with the deck hose (!) from the steamer.  Obviously a futile attempt.

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