Columbia River Gorge Volume 2 (2007)

Climbing gently from the tidewater ports near Portland Oregon is the Columbia River Gorgea wide flatwater river passage that provides access to the inland agricultural regions of Washington and Oregon and divides the two states along most of their border It is a spot of unparalleled beauty that hosts two railroad lines BNSF to the north and Union Pacific along the southern shore In Columbia River Gorge Volume I BNSFs Fallbridge Subdivision Pentrex explored the BNSF side of the Gorge heading east from Vancouver Washington to the arid desert mountains near the John Day Dam Now in Volume 2 we jump across the river to head back west toward Portland following Union Pacifics Portland Subdivision