When a train of private cars stopped at Burlington Northern's yard in Klamath Falls, Oregon during Labor Day weekend 1995, it was an event. The Amtrak special was the second of two trains from Lo... (more)

Power for Willamette & Pacific's Eugene Hauler crosses over Burlington Northern's former Oregon Electric. Today, both lines are united under the Portland & Western banner.

A Southern Pacific train hauling salvaged track materials enters Klamath Falls, Oregon on the abandoned Oregon, California & Eastern.

Smurfit Newsprint rolls down Blaine Street in Newberg with empties for the mill. The cars had just been set out at the interchange by Southern Pacific's last train on the Newberg Branch. On Monda... (more)

An excursion on the Palouse River Railroad rolls south along the Palouse River. The train was all California - two former Western Pacific GP35s, and two former Southern Pacific Daylight passenger... (more)

During February 1996, several Southern Pacific trains were detoured on Willamette & Pacific due to flooding on SP's mainline. One of the detours passes an ancient wigwag on WPRR in Amity, on the o... (more)

Returning to the mill with empties, Smurfit Newsprint Corporation's ex-Rock Island SW9 rolls through downtown Newberg, Oregon. The job had just switched out the interchange with Willamette & Paci... (more)

Willamette & Pacific's McMinnville Switcher arrives at Newberg with empties for the pulp mill. The Smurfit switch engine had brought loads up from the mill, and will return with the empty cars WP... (more)

Returning to Portland from a week on Washington Central, the SP&S 700 heads west through the Columbia River Gorge.

At Newberg, Oregon the Smurfit Newsprint Corporation had a railroad that ran a little over a mile from their pulp mill to the Southern Pacific. Most the line ran in the middle of Newberg's Blaine ... (more)

Deep in the heart of the Columbia River Gorge, westbound intermodal BN 13 rolls through Home Valley. The truss bridge spanning the mouth of Wind River was recently replaced by BNSF.

A westbound grain train nears Bingen, Washington in the Columbia River Gorge. The Oakways were fairly rare birds on the old SP&S.

An eastbound BNSF train nears Lyle, Washington in the Columbia River Gorge. Despite the early November date, a fair amount of fall color remains on the trees.

Nine months after the merger of Burlington Northern and Santa Fe, along the Columbia River it didn't look like anything had changed. A westbound stack train nears Bingen on the Fallbridge Subdivi... (more)

Two empty grain trains await their turn to depart eastward on a fall afternoon.