Night Train From Tillamook

Just north of Tillamook Oregon, on the Oregon coast scenic railway, we find Polson lumber company mikado number two headed towards Garibaldi. This ev... (more)

Stormy skies and their results. The last of the former Southern Pacific SD9s for the Port of Tillamook Bay slowly rots around the remains of other locomotives and railcars that have found new liv... (more)

The last of POTB's ex-SP SD9s, 4406 slowly rusts away at the end of the line in Tillamook.

A pair of former Southern Pacific Cadillacs work the Trask River Lumber spur. The Port of Tillamook Bay's industrial park is housed in a former WWII Naval Air Station that was a blimp base.

The Columbia River Belt Line Railway #7, aka The Skookum, is being nudged on to the ramp leading to the trailer that will take it to The Niles Canyon Railway in Sunol California. This unique earl... (more)

The Columbia River Belt Line Railway #7, aka The Skookum, is gently being pushed up a ramp an on to a trailer for its road trip to The Niles Canyon Railway in Sunol California.

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Dateline Tillamook Oregon…. The Columbia River Belt Line Railway #7, aka The Skookum, is all packed up and ready for its road trip to The Niles Canyon Railway in Sunol California.

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Sunset Steam:At sunset, a mixed steam freight crosses a wooden trestle in Tillamook, Oregon on the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad as part of a Lerro Productions photo charter.

Extreme Atmosphere

Looming out of the thick coastal fog, and doing its best to add to it, McCloud 25 emerges from the murk.

Out of the Fogg

Polson Logging No 2 runs over Stasek Slough at Tillamook, with a plume worthy of a Howard Fogg painting.

Steam on the Sloughs

McCloud River Railroad 25 manages to catch the sunlight, even on the smokebox door, as the Oregon sun sinks into nearby Tillamook Bay.

The privately owned Polson Logging Company No. 2 now calls Tillamook and the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad home. The OCSR operates over the west end of the former Southern Pacific Tillamook branch... (more)

1918 or 2018? Polson Logging Company's #2 Crossing the Stasek Slough just north of Tillamook Oregon. A photo charter over the Oregon Scenic Railroad, formerly the Port of Tillamook Bay RR.

Polson Logging Company's #2 is back at what it was meant to do, hauling a logging train. A photo charter over the Oregon Scenic Railroad, formerly the Port of Tillamook Bay RR.

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Sunny shot of the rear of the last SP "Cadillac" on the former POTB.