An EMD factory built GP20, UP487, idles at Albina Yard engine facilities with GP30 no. 839 on a dreary December day in 1974. This unit featured the flared 48 inch rear fan plus a 36 in. fan covere... (more)

UP 308 is parked at Baker, OR where it handles local business in the area. The loco is an Omaha GP20 upgraded by UP shops from a GP9. UP upgraded a number of GP9s and GP9Bs to 2000 HP and also pur... (more)

BN RS-11 no. 4182, another RS-11 still in NP paint, and a former SP&S C424 are parked at BN's Hoyt St. Yard in downtown Portland, OR between assignments. Since SP&S was the one Alco heavy railroad... (more)

UP DD40AX 6945 and mate get serviced at Albina Yard in Portland, OR after handling a priority freight west over the Blue Mountains and through the Columbia River Gorge. The line east from Portland... (more)

The garbage train is almost to its destination. There is no switch off the main for east bounds. The trains usually pull into the siding just past Arlington and use the DP at the other end for the... (more)

The 4 geeps and a slug make there way EB through the morning fog and over an old SP trestle. After the last straight on shot, I didn't really have many more spots on my list except for one at N... (more)

On another smokey morning (they were all smokey days on this trip to the Pacific Northwest), a pair of Portland & Western GP39-2s (PNWR 2304 and 2302) have rolled into the small yard in Eugene to ... (more)

The Lake Yard transfer arrives at its namesake and gets ready to do its work.

Thundering upgrade along the South Santiam River, Santa Maria Valley 205 begins the climb into Sweet Home. Having enjoyed a mild "up and down" run since departing Lebanon earlier in the ... (more)

The Portland-Seattle Vans has crested the grade near Encina, OR, but there are more ahead in the Blue Mountains for this quartet of SD40, 40-2s. CNW 6922, third out, was one of only two SD40-2s to... (more)

Crossing the Old Santiam Highway grade crossing, Santa Maria Valley Railroad 205 leads an appropriately named Santiam Excursion Train south toward Sweet Home where it will run around its tr... (more)

Thundering upgrade along the South Santiam River, Santa Maria Valley 205 begins the climb into Sweet Home. Having enjoyed a mild "up and down" run since departing Lebanon earlier in the ... (more)