UP 1996 holds on to its white souvenir from its trip over the Cascades as it descends into the Willamette Valley.
Two Canadian Pacific locomotives guide the Hinkle bound manifest over the 3920 feet long Joso Bridge. The bridge is 194 feet over the Snake River on the Union Pacific's connection to the CP in Ea... (more)
The fading sun drops over the hills as it reflects off of the Columbia River and the Roberts Bank, BC coal train. The coal drag is hustling to Towal where it will meet Amtrak who is holding the m... (more)
An ex-BN "tri-clops," a three-windowed SD60M, leads the Denver to Tacoma stack train over the Clark Fork River in the fading light of a mid-summer day.
The Pasco to Tacoma manifest heads past the John Day dam with 3 Oakways holding down the 108 car train. The John Day Dam has its gates open allowing the Columbia to partially release its power un... (more)
An empty Rivergate, OR to Lexington, NE grain shuttle struggles up the grade on the Union Pacific's line over the Blue Mountains in Eastern Oregon between snow falls on a day that saw a couple tim... (more)
The sounds at Mariners games include more than the crack of Ichiro's bat and the smacking of a Felix Hernandez fastball into Kenji's red catcher's mitt. Railroad sounds are as much a part of the ... (more)
Burning America? A North Platte manifest bound for the Lake Yard in Portland heads past the site of a fire started by a Union Pacific train four days earlier. The fire damaged some vehicles at t... (more)
A Vancouver,WA to Klamath Falls, OR manifest crosses the Columbia River over the Celilo Bridge. If you look closely you can see the SD40-2's Frisco heritage rusting through the green and black Bu... (more)
The Portland to LA pig train, ZBRLC, heads south in heavy snow at Crescent Lake on the ex-SP line over the Southern Oregon cascades.
An Oakway leads the Pasco to Vancouver, WA manifest through Avery in the morning light on the last day of 2007.
A newly repainted MP15DC (ex-P&LE) struts past the Albina Tower with a cut of cars on Labor Day 2006.
The UP's Old yard Job goes about its business on the industrial trackage in West Eugene with a bizarrely repainted SP GP40-2.
The City of Prineville Railroad's Crooked River Dinner Train heads east towards the railroads namesake town in the fading light on the high-desert in Central Oregon.