Early morning at the Albina Engine house. On the back tracks foreground we see UP 5212 which seems to have its hand rails damaged in some sort of incident. Located behind the SD70M is UPY 3001, La... (more)
BNSF 7981 with a large string of dirty covered hoppers.
A freighter from Willbridge Yard passes over the Willamette River on a warm late spring day.
Still wearing its original Burlington Northern number, BNSF 2088 backs into the staging tracks to couple to the daily Lake Yard transfer. Someone at BNSF called the Police on me and i got to speak... (more)
A trio of blue bonnet former Willamette & Pacific, nee Santa Fe lead the daily Albany-Vancouver train over the Lake Oswego Railroad Bridge. Spring has brought the vibrant growth to Oregon.
Switching duties in Albina with a SP style light package and a SD40-2
A UP trackage rights train moves north across the Columbia River into Washington from Lake Yard in Portland. UP 6373, a former Southern Pacific still wearing a patched paint job is the second unit... (more)
Lettered for Willamette & Pacific, Portland & Westerns black widow SP heritage scheme looks right at home on former SP 5830.
Usually spending its time running as second in consist on the "Rock Train" which originates a little bit north of Salem, it was a nice surprise to see P&W's last active SD9 on the roster... (more)
Unfortunately after two weeks of sun, SP 4449 was brought out of the engine house for Train Day in Portland under all to familiar gray skies.
Still switching after 64 years. Former Southern Pacific and Willamette & Pacific power soldiers on in Albany on the Portland & Western.
Former BN 7133, Burlington Northern bandit with a CREX unit on the Vancouver Power tracks.
On mothers day 2016, the power from train 663 arrives late into Vancouver after dropping its train at Willbridge yard in Portland. The train sports the usual power the two Willamette & Pacific ba... (more)
At dusk, a heritage I GE awaits a train at Bena
A quick break during an early spring storm allows for a shot of this JB Hunt train entering the intermodal terminal in Portland.
