It's clamming season in Garibaldi as the 12pm Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad train to Rockaway Beach steams past.

Passing Through Portland. On March 28, 2022, Amtrak Train 11 (Coast Starlight) was crossing the Steel Bridge in Portland, Oregon with Webb Rail's former Northern Pacific Railway Budd built ... (more)

AMTK 500 is being helped after have issues with the lead Charger locomotive. The goat boat leaders are starting to make a return to the rails with installation of PTC. I didn't expect my first cat... (more)

Two of Portland & Western's ex-ATSF GP39-2s spend a Sunday afternoon laying over at the former Oregon Electric terminal in Eugene. The PNWR 2313 is somewhat notable, as it still carries its origin... (more)

Ever so often PNWR 1854 gets taken off the Rock Train for service. When this happens the unit needs to be dropped back off at Woodburn, OR to reunite with train. With a little divine intervention,... (more)

Amtrak 508 has just started its 310 mile trip from Eugene to Seattle as it passes the water tower at the new Oregon State Hospital. Local icon Spencer Butte looms in the distance. This is the only... (more)

49 gets towed into position for a charter along the Oregon Pacific in Portland.

The sole Talgo set currently in operation on Amtrak's Cascades service is parked at Eugene, awaiting a 4:30 pm departure for Seattle as train 508.

A Union Pacific intermodal cruises along the Columbia River with sun flowers in the foreground.

The consist of the Toledo Hauler catches some sun west of Eddyville.

Harrisburg Bridges. Union Pacific Railroad constructed its new bridge over the Willamette River in Harrisburg, Oregon during five 30 hour outages between 2013-2014, replacing a 1906 span wi... (more)

Stormy skies and their results. The last of the former Southern Pacific SD9s for the Port of Tillamook Bay slowly rots around the remains of other locomotives and railcars that have found new liv... (more)

Its a typical gloomy day at he waterfront in Astoria, Oregon. Although it used to be bustling with the burble of Spokane Portland and Seattle alcos tending to the many industries on the docks ther... (more)

In honor of the 37th anniversary of the release of “Goonies” on 6/7/1987 we go to the waterfront in Astoria, Oregon. This former Spokane Portland and Seattle line still sees seasonal traffic b... (more)

McCloud 2-6-2 #25 steams on for the Oregon Coast Scenic Railway as it departs Garibaldi on a typical pacific northwest afternoon. Here the train is seen passing by the historic 1936 US Coast Guard... (more)