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)

A job based out of T6 switches out Green Transfer with a somewhat rare GP28M. Mt. St Helens can be seen peaking over the old BN office and the M-EVEABN is coming down the main taking the long way... (more)

The head end passes across from the rear of its Sommer, IL Vestas windmill parts train as it makes the sharp U-turn at the Durkee Loop in Eastern Oregon. The windmill parts are loaded at the Port... (more)

An Amtrak Cascades substitution train races through an early morning fog in North Portland.

The Klamath Northern's GE SL144's headlight glistens off the damp light rail as it lugs 17 empties back to the mill in Gilchrist from the interchange with the Union Pacific. Currently the mill ha... (more)

The first westbound intermodal to the newly redesignated intermodal only Brooklyn Yard heads through the Columbia Gorge enroute to the old Southern Pacific yard in Portland. The East-West intermo... (more)

A rail train from Portland bound for Laramie, WY navigates the curves alongside the Columbia River near Hood River. The "stick" rail gets loaded onto flats at Terminal 2 in Portland.

A SD70ACe leads 3 other EMDs and a long train headed for Barnes through the frigid Columbia Gorge. The icicles hanging from the nose of UP 8332 help demonstrate the strong grip winter held on the... (more)

The Portland section of the Empire Builder heads over the Willamette Drawbridge on its way into town.

A stand of trees cover the tracks in shadows, but the nose of the SD45 crosses a beam of sunlight that has found its way on to the tracks as the Harbor turn heads to Banks.

A sight once common in Western Oregon; a bloody nose emerging out of a cut of trees (though this GP38-2 has obvious lineage to CSX). This "last" Coos Bay hauler heads towards Mapleton, then on to... (more)

BA55 brings its local back to the Barnes Yard with a near pristine view of Mt. Hood behind them.

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)

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.

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)