I can’t afford to charter my own aerial photo excursion, so I took the budget route. Find an elevated vantage point.
Perhaps not as scenic as some of my photos, but it’s interesting nonetheless. It was also taken in early 2008, and the yard hasn’t looked this full since.
Hope you enjoy!
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=294417
You might also like this one, featuring lots of horses, absent from the photo above.
Nice shots Steve [tup][tup]
Lots of RR “stuff” in those photos…I wonder, if back many decades ago while traveling for Uncle Sam…I passed over this area on our way to Seattle from the east.
And people say it’s hard to find BN green… I spot at least 7 diesels and a caboose. That’s in addition to some obvious BNSF power in the “pumpkin” scheme, a Santa Fe unit, and a blue engine that looks like Progressive Rail?
Nice photos.
Thanks for the comments!
That’s actually a freshly repainted MRL unit in blue. The BN green is pretty much gone now, that shot’s a year old!
Thanks for the photos. The first one brings back a flood of memories. The two green highway bridges on the right in the photo are of highwayy 99 the original highway from San Diego to Vancouver. Many parts of this highway exist with California having the greatest mileage of course. Highway 99 offers miles of running alongside train routes through the Central Valley and from Bellingham to Blaine come immediatly to mind as does the route north of the border to downtown Vancouver. Actually from Everett North to Mount Vernon also runs alongside the BNSF tracks. The old sections of highway 99 make for some interesting photography much like old route 66 with the old remnants of motels and roadside attractions that could no longer entice the driving public off the new I-5. But it certainly offers many opportunities for railfan photographers. Highway 99 brings back memories for me as I traveled from Vancouver where my Grandparents lived to my Uncles in Southern California before even sections of I-5 were constructed and I resided in the Northwest until I departed for the Navy. There are numerous sections of old 99 still in place and much RR activity alongside many of those sections I am surprized there is not more RR photography along this historic route.
Al - in - Stockton