I learned very fast with this railroad. I couldn't just cut through the bushes, or run up a hill. The foliage is thick, with a lot of mean thorns. Lots of uneven ground, and water.

Beauty abounds along the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad.

GN 274 leads the Wednesday morning Oregon Coast Scenic trip. It was my first time getting to see a locomotive in Great Northern paint operate. I feel kind of funny actually saying this, but I was ... (more)

The final train of the day Oregon Coast Scenic McCloud River 25 passes Barview MP 844. Three Graces Rock formation can be seen in the background.

Looking like an SP local train in the late 1950s, an tourist train on POTB rolls northward in summer 1991.

McCloud River 2-6-2 25 leads a caboose hop across Smith Lake.

Morning freight to Hillsboro. There's still a chill in the calm morning air as the crew of a beefy logging Mikado takes a cut of well-used freight cars up the SP Tillamook Branch, bound for... (more)

A side portrait of "Skookum", a 2-4-4-2 Mallet Baldwin steam locomotive built in 1909 and meticulously renovated over the past 15 years, running in reverse back to Garibaldi, OR. A fishe... (more)

Symmetry in motion at Smith Lake. The morning mist has begun to give way to filtered sun as Polson Logging Co. Mikado #2 hauls a mixed freight north along the causeway at Smith Lake, just n... (more)

"Skookum", a 2-4-4-2 Mallet Baldwin steam locomotive built in 1909, hauls a string of empty log bunks across the causeway at Smith Lake on a foggy morning.

Caboose hop at Smith Lake. With the Skookum Locomotive still experiencing intermittent technical issues, the folks from the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad elected to have all 3 of their opera... (more)

Reflection at Smith Lake. A calm and chilly morning finds the crew of Columbia River Belt Line Railway #7 "Skookum" hauling a string of empty log bunks north across the causeway a... (more)

On a foggy morning at Smith Lake, 2-4-4-2 Baldwin steam locomotive from 1909 called "Skookum" is pulling a string of empty log-carrying wagons to Salmonberry, OR.

McCloud River Railroad's 2-6-2 No. 25 brings a mixed freight through Barview, OR heading north along the causeway at Smith Lake. Captured during a Lerro Productions charter at the Oregon Scenic R... (more)

Behind the Scenes at a Lerro Productions Night Session

Polson Logging Company No. 2 strikes a pose under starry skies for photographers of a night photo session orchestrated by Lerro Prod... (more)