Heading to the Washington Central, SP 4449 rolls east on Burlington Northern's former SP&S mainline.

In winter, the Rogue Valley is often socked in with thick fog. This westbound on the Siskiyou Line has just climbed out of the gloom as it approaches Ashland.

The Coast Starlight is receiving passengers at Emeryville on a summer morning. In the distance, Capitol train 721 is waiting for the Starlight to clear the platform, so it can enter the station.

The BN train to Eugene on the former Oregon Electric passes below Willamette & Pacific's ex-SP Toledo Branch. Today, both lines are united as part of Portland & Western.

A couple of months after the service started, an eastbound Swift RoadRailer heading for Portland climbs Calimus Hill.

Although General Electric power reigns on the Shasta Route today, it was exotic once upon a time. The first freight train I ever saw on the Black Butte Subdivision that had a solid set of GEs clim... (more)

Not long after Willamette & Pacific's GP39 fleet arrived, four former Santa Fe units draw a crowd at Newberg.

Less than an hour from a crew change at Dunsmuir, a hot intermodal train is westbound on the Shasta Route near Mount Shasta.

The final trainload of logs hauled by Oregon, California & Eastern is passing through Olene Gap, ten miles from tie-up at Klamath Falls.

The Board of Directors tours the Shasta Route in summer 1987. This train ran through to Portland, and then returned to California via the Siskiyou Line.

Because a train is stalled ahead due to a UDE, the hotshot LABRF's path to the next crew change at Klamath Falls is blocked. While the train waits it out, the conductor is going to the Mt Hebron ... (more)

Santa Fe's 991 train rolls past the depot at Pittsburg, just into its run to Illinois.

A work train crosses the Willamette River. At the time, there was a lot of trackwork being performed in Portland's southwest suburbs to mitigate the Westside Light Rail project's impact on freigh... (more)

As the Gilchrist family prepared to sell the Gilchrist Timber Company, some excess assets were liquidated. The KNOR's 70-tonner was sold to Modesto & Empire Traction. When the locomotive was deliv... (more)

Just out of Union Pacific's Albina Yard, this Southern Pacific train is entering the interlocking at the east end of the Steel Bridge. It will enter home rail a few hundred yards ahead.