After turning on the wye at Willits Yard, California Western's passenger train returns to the depot. The consist of the North Coast Daylight is parked in the background.

Shortly after delivery to Genesee & Wyoming's Willamette & Pacific, four ex-Santa Fe units lead the Mac Hauler west near Sherwood. The train is using detour rights on Southern Pacific's Newberg Br... (more)

Portland & Western's first locomotive switches out Taylor Lumber on the Willamina District. The ex-Southern Pacific SD was no stranger to this territory, from its days as SP 4326.

On a foggy coastal Sunday morning, the North Coast Daylight stands on 1st Street in Eureka. The train is being prepared for its trip to Willits.

The Coast Starlight flies low across Butte Valley on Memorial Day weekend 1994.

Espee's last Newberg Turn heads west on the Newberg Branch in Portland's southwest suburbs. The three SD9s on the point of the train will be left at McMinnville for Willamette & Pacific's use when... (more)

Once upon a time, trains on the Modoc Line added helpers at Ravendale. By 1988, the water tank standing along the tracks was the only remaining structure from those days.

A westbound train on the Siskiyou Line is about to pass under I-5. The lead unit had just been remanufactured by Morrison Knudsen.

Two months before the train was discontinued, the Rio Grande Zephyr is serviced at Grand Junction.

An excursion sponsored by the Pacific Limited Group rolls southward along the Deschutes River. The Portland - Bend roundtrip covered the Columbia River Gorge and the Oregon Trunk.

A pair of ex-Western Pacific GP35s pull two ex-Southern Pacific Daylight cars on an excursion in Washington's Palouse region. The train is operating on the former Union Pacific branch between Hoo... (more)

Awaiting the passage of a directors' special bound for Oregon, Southern Pacific's PTLAT train is parked in the siding at Mott, California.

Power for Willamette & Pacific's Eugene Hauler crosses over Burlington Northern's former Oregon Electric. Today, both lines are united under the Portland & Western banner.

A westbound train on the Shasta Route departs Klamath Falls for Dunsmuir in spring 1997.

Running nearly six hours late, the Portland section of the Empire Builder passes some BNSF ballast cars at Lyle. The snow on the nose has likely been aboard since Montana.