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)

A former Burlington Northern F9A is dressed up to represent Spokane, Portland and Seattle No. 802 is on display at the Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center at Stevenson, Washington, on May 30, 2008.... (more)

About to turn the heat off - a detail of the tire just as it got hot enough to remove the tire. Luckily, even though there was much strength and work involved in the process by the volunteer membe... (more)

Heating a damaged tire for it's removal at the new Oregon Rail Heritage Center.

Recently rebuilt SP&S 700 rolls through Lyle on its first long-distance test run to Wishram. Those freight cars and leased EMD GP38 756 served the Goldendale Branch, abandoned shortly after this p... (more)

Spokane Portland & Seattle 4-6-6-4 Class Z-6 900 was the first of six "Challengers" built by the American Locomotive Company in 1937. She had 69" drivers, four 23 x 32 inch cylinders, operated at ... (more)

Spokane Portland & Seattle 4-8-4 701 was one of three Class E-1 4-8-4s built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in May, 1938. They were virtually identical to the Northern Pacific Class A-3 except that t... (more)

Forsaken

SP&S #539 was taken out of a park and is reportedly in excellent shape. The engine is for sale and ready for a second career. bw

Out to Pasture: Spokane, Portland and Seattle 2-8-2 #539, former Northern Pacific #1762, was built by Alco in 1917. The SP&S donated the engine to the city of Vancouver, WA in 1957. In t... (more)

Highball Scribner. SP&S Alco 313 has a clear signal and order board to proceed east to Spokane. This is railroading the way it was with the engineman and station operator acknowledging each othe... (more)