Trains at Cascade Locks, Oregon 4K

http://www.yardlimitproductions.com Cascade Locks is a city in Hood River County, Oregon, United States. The city took its name from a set of locks built to improve navigation past the Cascades Rapids of the Columbia River. The U.S. federal government approved the plan for the locks in 1875, construction began in 1878, and the locks were completed on November 5, 1896. The locks were subsequently submerged in 1938, replaced by Bonneville Lock and Dam, although the city lost no land from the expansion of Lake Bonneville behind the dam some 4 miles (6 km) downstream of the city. The Columbia River Gorge has supported human habitation for over 13,000 years. Evidence of the Folsom and Marmes people, who crossed the Bering land bridge from Asia, were found in archaeological digs. Excavations near Celilo Falls, a few miles east of The Dalles, show humans have occupied this salmon-fishing site for more than 10,000 years. The gorge has provided a transportation corridor for thousands of years. Native Americans would travel through the Gorge to trade at Celilo Falls, both along the river and over Lolo Pass on the north side of Mount Hood. In 1805, the route was used by the Lewis and Clark Expedition to reach the Pacific. Early European and American settlers subsequently established steamboat lines and railroads through the gorge. Union Pacific completed its rail line through the Gorge in 1884, on the south shore, opening a transcontinental link between Portland and the Midwest by linking its subsidiary Oregon Short Line Railway to the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company line at Huntington, Oregon. The previous year, 1883, the Northern Pacific Railway had completed its transcontinental line from the Midwest to Seattle and Tacoma, and on to Portland using a ferry crossing at Kalama, Washington. A subsidiary of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern railways, the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway, was completed through the Columbia River Gorge on the north shore, but not until 1908. The Columbia River Highway, built in the early 20th century, was the first major paved highway in the Pacific Northwest. Shipping was greatly simplified after Bonneville Dam and The Dalles Dam submerged the gorge's major rapids such as Celilo Falls, a major salmon fishing site for local Native Americans until the site's submergence in 1957. Over Valentine’s day’s weekend, we spent several days at Cascade Locks, staying at the Best Western. We were fortunate enough to have a fourth floor room with a balcony, affording us the opportunity to video the numerous trains that went by. This is a list of trains seen in the video: UP 2625 Eastbound Trailer Train UP 5552 Westbound Grain Train UP 5058 Westbound Manifest Train BNSF Westbound Grain Train UP 8561 Eastbound Grain Empties UP 1988 Eastbound Lumber Products featuring The Katy UP 4104 Westbound Manifest Train Thank you for watching!