UP 1124 and three other siblings sit on the Albina power track.

The Northbound Starlight with the private car "Dagny Taggart" on the rear. Once a former NYC observation car, it now sports MKT logo at the end.

Saved! SP bay window caboose 4729 has been a longtime fixture at Albina Yard in Portland. The car was gutted early this year of asbestos in preparation for scrapping. Fortunately, it was purchased... (more)

The "Spirit of the Union Pacific" leads a executive special along the Columbia River.

The Northbound "Coast Starlight" Approaches San Luis station. With a P42 sandwiched between Dash-8's.

A restored F7, adorning it's original Great Northern colors us leading the Oregon Coast Railroad dinner train. Crab rocks sits in the bay to the right.

Northbound Cans charge up the Cuesta Grade.

One of the most scenic railroad locations in the world...Too bad the days of long SD9 powered log trains are over. This is a pretty cool conciliation seeing Doyle McCormack's F7 power dinner train... (more)

A BNSF special graces the Coastline with a nice train of company varnish and Patrick Henry cars.

Hanging out in Vancouver, i came across this executive mac leading a coal train right before i was about to leave town.

Recent increase of capacity of the Zenith oil terminal has brought backlash from local environmental groups and increased numbers of Canadian oil trains to the Portland area.

Two DPUs bring up the end of a grainer as the sun melts the snowpack of the Columbia River Gorge.

In honor of my 700th upload, i wanted to put a roster shot a got a couple weeks back of this old Santa Fe pink bonnet. Not as eye catching as at one point, but still pretty cool to see.

This classic Santa Fe keep has been around Vancouver for a few years now. It still looks good moving a cut of box cars to be taken around the system.

After a heavy rain the coast's primer frieght train "the oilcans" appears almost as they did before the elements rusted them brown. The Espee maybe be gone, but Southern Pacific can still be seen ... (more)