The Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company shuttle crosses Bloody Tanks Wash. The lead unit is ex-MP 1126.

The Lewis & Clark Explorer backs out of its loading area at Linnton to enter the main track to Astoria. The train ran for three years as part of the Lewis & Clark Expedition bicentennial. ORRX 31... (more)

A Eureka Southern train rolls northbound on a perfect North Coast morning.

Not long after sunrise on one of the longest days of the year, a City of Prineville train departs its namesake for the Oregon Trunk interchange at Prineville Junction.

In the last decade Southern Pacific owned the Molalla Branch, daytime movements were very rare. Normally, the branch was worked in the middle of the night by the Oregon City Switcher. After Dick S... (more)

Operating on the old SP Coalinga Branch, a SJVR train crosses the Santa Fe in downtown Hanford. It was just another blazing hot summer afternoon in the valley.

In February 1996, floods and related problems shut down every rail line into Portland, Oregon except one - the Portland & Western's ex-SP Tillamook, Newberg and Westside branches. A hot SP PTPCX d... (more)

Until the mid 1990s, it was common for Southern Pacific to run roadfreights in the Willamette Valley with solid sets of first generation power. A set of valley power pulls a westbound toward Eugen... (more)

On a sunny winter day, SP's Whiteson Flyer switches cars near McMinnville.

There aren't that many places were you can photograph trains with the Portland skyline. East Portland, the end of the SP mainline, is one. Back in summer 1991, an SP transfer from Brooklyn Yard i... (more)

A westbound stack train rounds the Pritchard Creek horseshoe in Eastern Oregon. This remote area has some of the finest high desert scenery on Union Pacific.

Although General Electric power reigns on the Shasta Route today, it was exotic once upon a time. The first freight train I ever saw on the Black Butte Subdivision that had a solid set of GEs clim... (more)

The southbound Swift RoadRailer curves through the Sacramento River Canyon in fall 1999.

A yard engine rattles across the Fallbridge Sub main line at Vancouver to serve an industry. Trackage in this area has since been reconfigured, and these diamonds have been removed.

A westbound ATSF train in the Tehachapis highballs Bealville siding. The train was just the right length.