A City Center bound Orange Line train slows for a stop at SE Bybee Boulevard while a southbound UP intermodal train gets underway out of Portland.

OAKRIDGE OR Oct 31 1978 — Southern Pacific SD45 8963, and its southbound mixed freight. are tied down in this central Oregon community. EMD built the unit (b/n 33660) in May 1968. It was rebuilt... (more)

Vintage Excursion EMD veteran awaiting a Saturday excursion up towards Mt. Hood.

Southbound on the Oregon Trunk.

PORTLAND OR Aug 20 1981 — Southern Pacific SW1500 2645 handles a caboose hop at North Albina Avenue east of Union Pacific’s Albina Yard. Photo by Charles Stookey.

Northern Pacific train number 407 is seen departing Portland Oregon on July 29th 1940. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Union Pacific 2-8-8-0 3604 leads 61 car freight number 258 east at 12 MPH in 1938. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Union Pacific 3290 leads an E/B across the Crooked River Bridge near Terrebonne, OR on December 17, 2001 with 50 cars with the UP Bend to the Dalles local. This local no longer runs. Power was UP ... (more)

Train 11 (Coast Starlight) departs Albany, OR with one of AMTRAK's "charger" locomotives near Queen Avenue.

The former NW Portland industrial switched that was based out of Willbridge Yard has been donated to the Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation. Following the abandonment of the spurs in the area, GN 361... (more)

SPS 866 has been parked in the NW Industrial area with other historical pieces of equipment for over a decade. After BNSF land locked the units by cutting switching in the area and lack of space a... (more)

As the sun sets on a typical Oregon winter day, PNWR 1854, a 1955 former Southern Pacific SD9 and the last of the first-generation power of the railroad, makes it's final run. Once it arrives at H... (more)

BN 4068 is a former SP&S RS-3 that was assigned at Astoria, OR for switching and local work. Astoria was nearly as far west of SP&S got. Their trackage did extend a little further west to the actu... (more)

The Harbor Turn runs through downtown Hillsboro on a atypical daylight run. The week long ice storm caused many delays, resulting in this move as the Portland metro had an inch plus of solid ice, ... (more)

Out Of Oakridge. On the afternoon of March 27, 2022, Webb Rail's former Northern Pacific Railway Budd built Pullman dome/slpr 313 (WEBX 801044), former Northern Pacific Railway Budd built d... (more)