Can't Have National Train Day without our Nations Flag.

A roster shot of 8689 at Portland Station

Nation Train Day 2013 at Portland Union Station

Nation Train Day 2013 at Portland Union Station

Steam in the City of Roses: Spokane, Portland and Seattle 4-8-4 No. 700 departs Portland Union Station after being on display on May 11 for National Train Day. The locomotive is returning t... (more)

Spokane, Portland and Seattle No. 700 was the star of National Train Day in Portland, Ore. on Saturday, May 11. Hundreds of people lined up throughout the afternoon to see inside the cab of... (more)

SP&S 700 4-8-4, was hot and on display at Union Station, PDX for National Train Day. A queue of adoring event goers wait for a turn inside the cab. She is operated and maintained by the all-volunt... (more)

The Coast Starlight leaving the platform at Union Station amidst National Train Day celebrations in Portland. Among the displays was the SP&S 700 4-8-4, partially visible next to the station.

The Coast Starlight pulls into Union Station on time during National Train Day celebrations in Portland.

No one seemed to mind photographers just walking around taking their happy snaps at BN's Hoyt Street Roundhouse in downtown Portland. And what engaging photo subjects! Here we see, left to right, ... (more)

A visit to Portland's Hoyt Street roundhouse in the spring of 1980 reinforced the bad news we'd heard: BN's Alco fleet was in storage, jamming nearly every available track at Hoyt Street at at the... (more)

Union Pacific's CN&W Heritage unit 1995 snakes it's way through the "I-84 ditch" on it's way out of Portland during a typical oregon soggy and misty afternoon.

BN 4191 still in its NP scheme rests at an unknown location in the Pacific Northwest. Slide has been in my collection for years with no photographer listed. After the BN merger the ex NP Alcos tha... (more)

BN 9900 was the only E unit owned by the SP&S and was numbered 750 with that railroad. It teams up with an FP7 to lead tr. 22, the Portland connection for the EMPIRE BUILDER. I rode the sleeping c... (more)

A large transformer heads south on a TTX 8-axle depressed center flatcar.