Less than ten blocks from the mainline, an extra West Stayton Local heads east through Southeast Salem on the Geer Branch. The track would be leased to the new Willamette Valley Railway at the end... (more)

Ever so often PNWR 1854 gets taken off the Rock Train for service. When this happens the unit needs to be dropped back off at Woodburn, OR to reunite with train. With a little divine intervention,... (more)

1124 on home rails, through the irises at Perkins road.

Amtrak's northbound Mount Rainier makes its station stop at Salem on a spring morning. The train originated in Eugene a few minutes before sunrise. It will terminate at Seattle during lunch hour.

A few weeks before the trackage was leased to the Willamette Valley Railway, an extra West Stayton Turn rolls east on the Geer Branch. This line through the suburbs of the state capital is now aba... (more)

The daily Oregon Electric roadfreight from Vancouver, Washington to Albany, Oregon rolls down Front Street on a spring afternoon. The lead unit was ordered by Spokane, Portland & Seattle. It was... (more)

Portland & Western rock train 735R has just come out of the quarry in Hopmere, a section of Salem, Oregon, where the train originates led by GP39-2 2303. Now on the mainline, the train is led by... (more)

A westbound in the Willamette Valley passes the passenger station in Salem, with power typical of the late 80s.

In spring 1995, Oregon DOT used a Talgo set laying over at Portland for quick demonstration trips to Salem on weekends. One of these trains has just arrived at Salem. The engineer is leaving the... (more)

For a brief time in Oregon, locomotives of the mid-20th century and the early 21st century worked side by side. On Labor Day 1994, two brand new SD70Ms cool their heels in the siding at Labish, w... (more)

Two SP Baldwin switchers sit on the turntable tracks at the Salem roundhouse in August 1972. No. 1865 is a DRS-4-4-1000, while No. 2103 is an S12. SP purchased many Baldwin offerings, with most of... (more)

What a crazy consist to start 2017 with!! The previous night, Amtrak 14 departed Dunsmuir, CA and hit a rock slide just north of town, damaging the lead unit beyond use. Because of the incident, a... (more)

After a long and rainy winter in the Willamette Valley, UP 2575 leads the QPDRV (freight from Portland, OR to Roseville, CA) along 12th Street in Salem, OR on a beautiful Sunday afternoon.

Until the mid 1990s, it was common for Southern Pacific to run roadfreights in the Willamette Valley with solid sets of first generation power. A set of valley power pulls a westbound toward Eugen... (more)

The BN 664 train rolls up the old Oregon Electric trackage on Salem's Front Street NE.