Columbia River Headlands Tunnels
by Charles Robinson
Title
Columbia River Headlands Tunnels
Artist
Charles Robinson
Medium
Photograph - Landscape Photograph
Description
The series of tunnels along the Burlington Northern mainline and Highway 14 through the Columbia River Gorge pass through basalt ridges or headlands that were created by lava flows from the eruptions of Mt. Adams located to the north in the Cascade Mountain Range of Washington. You can see the side by side tunnels of the railroad on the right and the highway on the left. Two of the tunnels are visible through the near headland and through the headland in the distance. There is a third tunnel through the headland in the middle that looks like a large rock. If you look closely on the forested hillside, you can see the remains of an old wooden log flume. It was used to carry huge old growth log cants from the high elevation logging operations to a finishing sawmill on the river at Bingen, Washington. The use of the flume was discontinued in 1986 when the mill shut down, because of the reduction in the volume of the timber harvest on state and federal lands.
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May 11th, 2012
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Charles Robinson
Thank you, Christiane. I never tire of driving through this beautiul area, however travel by train can be rather perilous. There have been several train wrecks in this area between the tunnels when boulders rolled down the steep rocky slopes and knocked the rail cars into the river.