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MP 3165, a non-dynamic brake SD40-2 showed up at Albina Yard, Portland, OR in run-through/mileage equalization. Five years later in 1982 UP would react to the BN-Frisco merger (1980) by merging wi... (more)

A string of UP GP20 and GP9 B units were in storage at Albina Yard, Portland, OR in December 1974. The 309B and 347B are GP20Bs made from GP9Bs by UP in Omaha. The third unit is a GP9B not rebuilt... (more)

An EMD factory built GP20, UP487, idles at Albina Yard engine facilities with GP30 no. 839 on a dreary December day in 1974. This unit featured the flared 48 inch rear fan plus a 36 in. fan covere... (more)

BN RS-11 no. 4182, another RS-11 still in NP paint, and a former SP&S C424 are parked at BN's Hoyt St. Yard in downtown Portland, OR between assignments. Since SP&S was the one Alco heavy railroad... (more)

UP DD40AX 6945 and mate get serviced at Albina Yard in Portland, OR after handling a priority freight west over the Blue Mountains and through the Columbia River Gorge. The line east from Portland... (more)

The Lake Yard transfer arrives at its namesake and gets ready to do its work.

Star of the Old SP. Southern Pacific 4-8-4 #4449 shows off the stars on her drivers while sitting on display in the Oregon Rail Heritage Center.

With the temperature hovering just above 40 degrees this morning, a dramatic display of steam power unfolds as SP 4449 departs the Oregon Rail Heritage Center for a run south down the Oregon Pacif... (more)

As SP 4449 simmers in the cold, December air, a light rail vehicle passes by overhead. I wonder if anyone aboard noticed the 80-year-old steam locomotive below them.

SP 4449, a 1941-built product of the Lima Locomotive Works, is still able to bring Portland to a stand still as the 80-year locomotive puts on a show of steam power as it departs the Oregon Rail H... (more)

Photo taken at night of the UP "Pacific Northwest Special" from Council Bluffs to a series of public relations stops in Idaho, Washington and Oregon.

Led by 1124, YBA55 crosses the Peninsula Junction diamonds, surrounded by dystopian-looking torn up code lines probably left in their current state in order to allow double stack clearance.

A tastefully patched espee GP60 leads YBA55 back west to home in golden light.

North Portland looking as it would've 25 or so years ago, as the Lake Yard transfer passes through