The "ghost train" leaves Mineral. After switching onto the main line at Mineral, Hammond Lumber #17 begins plodding slowly south into the murk, with a short freight bound for Mort... (more)

Morning freight to Mineral. The early morning fog is starting to thin at Roundtop Creek and some sun is just starting to filter through. The stillness of this calm, cool morning is sudden... (more)

Mountain muscle. With the local vegetation and the rails still dripping wet from an afternoon downpour, Rayonier Willamette #2 charges upgrade toward the nearby Mineral Yard with a work tra... (more)

Fall in the Cascades. A few splashes of color brighten an otherwise gloomy fall day in Washington's Cascade Region, as Rayonier Lumber Willamette #2 brings a freight out of the deep woods a... (more)

Fall in the Cascades. A few splashes of color in the lush forest signal the onset of fall in Washington's Cascade Region, as Hammond Lumber #17 shuttles a short work train south from Elbe, ... (more)

Meet me at Park Junction. A Lerro Productions photo freight, with Rayonier Willamette #2 on the point, waits on the wye at Park Junction for the passage of the Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad's... (more)

Steamscape: Roundtop Creek. Rayonier Lumber Willamette #2 heads north out of Mineral, Washington, crossing the little wooden bridge over Roundtop Creek with string of log bunks.

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The morning sun begins to break through the stubborn fog and mist as a short work train, headed by Hammond Lumber Company #17, chugs slowly toward the shops at Mineral. A 1929 product of t... (more)

Misty Mineral Morning. In a pea-soup fog so typical of the Pacific Northwest, Hammond Lumber Company #17, a beefy Mikado Saddle Tanker, switches onto the main line at the shops in Mineral, ... (more)

The Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad. McCloud 25 pulls her mixed freight around the southern shore of pretty Nehalem Bay as she enters the little town of Wheeler, where she'll stop for water. ... (more)

Smoke on, ready....now! McCloud 25 charges across the little Fishery Point Bridge in Wheeler, Oregon, converting the spoils from the local Jiffy Lube into black gold for an assembled group ... (more)

Reflecting on her nearly 90 years of service, the former McCloud River Railroad Prairie #25 charges across the little bridge over Nehalem Bay, just south of Wheeler, Oregon. This lovely m... (more)

Waking up Rockaway Beach. The old McCloud's little Alco Prairie #25 whistles for one of the many private grade crossings in the ocean-front community of Rockaway Beach, as she heads north a... (more)

Over the river and through the woods. With a gentle rain falling, the former McCloud River Railroad #25 hauls a mixed freight across the confluence of the Nehalem and Salmonberry Rivers, i... (more)

Garibaldi dawn. The morning sun highlights a layer of alto-cumulus over Oregon's Tillamook Bay, as former McCloud River Railroad's Alco #25 chugs slowly north through the port of Garibaldi... (more)