Late on a hot summer morning, a long stack train out of the Port of Seattle grinds up the 1% grade through Trinidad. Towering in the distance are the cliffs of Cape Horn (yes, there are two Cape Horns along the Columbia River in Washington), rising some 1200 feet above the dunes of West Bar. Not visible in this scene is the mighty river itself, which is tucked between West Bar and the bluff upon which the ex-Great Northern mainline was built.
