On the last day of July, a nice looking fakebonnet heads to the fuel racks after bringing empty auto racks to Rivergate in North Portland.

Some silver varnish makes an interesting surprise appearance in Vancouver. The train dropped a couple dome cars off in the car Yard and heads north to the staging tracks.

The CNW heritage unit heads south past BNSF yard power with a stack train in tow.

It has been nice seeing the Warbonnets back in service. BNSF 799 takes the second spot on a intermodal train.

Portland & Western's Santa Fe heritage fleet departs south to Albany, Or.

A R/C Geep does some switching while DPU, BNSF 8327 brings up the end of a Oil Train on the new bypass track.

As fellow RailPics user J.PO titles this pair, the dynamic duo, after receiving a clear signal from the dispatcher, begins its journey to Lake Yard.

After running for over a month together, the Cascade green duo of BNSF 1779 and 1948 for the venrable "Lake Transfer" was broken up. Fortunately, a good replacement was found with BNSF 1... (more)

Power from a Pasco-Portland manifest comes into the Vancouver Yard for servicing. The paint on this former ATSF "snoot" has held up a lot better then a lot of new locomotives out there. ... (more)

Kind of the "Huff & Puff" of the Portland area, the dynamic green duo of BNSF 1779 and 1948 move into the position to take the Lake Transfer to Portland. Someone dubbed "Lake Transf... (more)

This appears to be Union Pacific's Waste Management train from Seattle out to a massive landfill located a few miles south of Arlington, Oregon. The rear DPU's bring up the end of this four engine... (more)

BNSF 7981 with a large string of dirty covered hoppers.

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)

Amtrak train 26, the Pioneer slows for its station stop at Vancouver, WA, passing BN's SW1500 of Frisco heritage (SLSF 326). The Pioneer had three more years to operate between Seattle, WA and Sal... (more)

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)