A trainload of empty garbage containers heads south on the Shasta Route. The train was operated from Roosevelt, Washington by BNSF. Union Pacific will take the train to Suisun-Fairfield, where it ... (more)

The Louisiana Worlds Fair Daylight climbs the 1% grade to the Oregon/California state line on the second morning of its trip to New Orleans. Twenty minutes earlier, the train had departed Klamath ... (more)

Two years after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, a Rio Grande tunnel motor leads a trainload of Oregon forest products on a southbound train. The next crew change will be at Klamath Falls,... (more)

Just south of Crabtree, Oregon, on September 27, 2016, an Albany & Eastern Railroad log train has just crossed Oregon State Highway 226 leaving town. The train is returning from the Teevin Bros. l... (more)

Three years after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, a southbound UP freight train with a solid set of SP power enters California on the Shasta Route.

The End of an Era. Three or Portland & Western's high hood, first generation EMD power has been retired at this date. Only SD9 1852, still in Southern Pacific paint, continues to work the Oregon E... (more)

A non-clearing eastbound Southern Pacific train holds short of a grade crossing, waiting for a westbound train to arrive at Worden, Oregon.

Southern Pacific's relief train from Klamath Falls rolls westward near Midland, Oregon. The train was taking the big hook south to help clean up a derailment near Redding, California. Between the ... (more)

PORTLAND OR Aug 20 1981 — Union Pacific SD40-2 3234 and Southern Pacific SD40T-2 8304 have just crossed under I-405 as they haul a mixed freight into Albina Yard. EMD built the unit (b/n 72684-3... (more)

Two notable locomotives are at Klamath Falls, Oregon on a June evening in 2002. The Olympic SD70M was enroute to Dunsmuir, California for display during the local Railroad Days. Although the GE lo... (more)

Led by an SD45R in a fresh coat of SPSF "Kodachrome" paint, a westbound train awaits opposing traffic in Texum siding. Once the mainline is clear, the train will depart Klamath Falls for... (more)

When Amtrak began its mail and express program in the late 1990s, some of the cars were rehabilitated in Oregon. On the Fourth of July 1997, some finished cars were spotted at UP's Eugene Yard.

A very spooky "Grey Ghost" sits in Lake Yard on Halloween 2023.

An officer special leaves Portland's Albina Yard after spending the night.

A train of Pacific Northwest forest products heads for California markets on a Fall morning. The peak in the distance is Mt. Scott, the highest elevation in Crater Lake National Park.