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)

a quartet of SSW locomotives lead a train of empty copper concentrate hoppers west toward LA and eventually AZ where they will be loaded with more copper concentrate for export

a solid set of SSW power takes an empty copper concentrate train out of the Kaiser Bulk Facility at the Port of Los Angeles with the fishing fleet in the distance