In anticipation of an ICC approval of a AT&SF/SP merger, SP painted 5 of its 89 SD40R's in merger red and yellow. Units 7303, 7310 7357, 7361 and 7384. The 7384 sits in the afternoon sun at Eugen... (more)

The southbound Swift RoadRailer awaits a crew to take the train to Keddie on BNSF's Gateway Subdivision.

September 13, 1991 was a perfect late summer morning in Sycan, Oregon. Weyerhaeuser was beginning the process of moving all rolling stock off the Oregon, California & Eastern prior to abandonment.... (more)

No one knew it at the time, but when SP 4449 departed Eugene and climbed the Cascades in June 1992, it was the last time it would ever happen. The Daylight train to the NRHS Convention in San Jose... (more)

The only SP caboose painted for the SPSF merger pauses on a summer evening in 1988 at Klamath Falls, Oregon.

In October 1987, a pair of slug sets normally found on Southern Pacific's Toledo Hauler are working as helpers in the Cascades. They display the result of ongoing operation in this service as they... (more)

After Southern Pacific mothballed Siskiyou Summit, traffic off the Siskiyou Line had to go north to Eugene to go south into California. A westbound train with rerouted traffic from the Rogue Vall... (more)

A westbound Southern Pacific lumber drag crosses Salt Creek in the Cascade Range of Oregon. During winter, the trestle marks the spot on Oregon Highway 58 where motorists chain up for the crossing... (more)

Amtrak Cascades train 500 roars across the floor of the Willamette Valley at Hito. Next stop: Oregon City.

Less than ten blocks from the mainline, an extra West Stayton Local heads east through Southeast Salem on the Geer Branch. The track would be leased to the new Willamette Valley Railway at the end... (more)

Not quite 117 miles into its 310 mile trip to Seattle, Cascades train 508 is already an hour and fifteen minutes behind schedule. Small wonder that railfans in the Puget Sound area call this train... (more)

UP 1982 leading an eastbound Z-BRG2B through Arlington, Oregon this evening on Union Pacific's Portland Subdivision.

The Harbor Turn makes its return trip from Harbor through the farmland between North Plains and Hillsboro, in the blistering heat that we've been experiencing recently.

Oregon Forest. On the morning of March 27, 2022, Webb Rail's former Northern Pacific Railway Budd built Pullman dome/sleeper 313 (WEBX 801044), former Northern Pacific Railway Budd built do... (more)

Broadside view of SD9 PNWR 1854 leading out of Salem, OR.