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.

One of the new CP heritage units made a surprise visit leading in Oregon! The trailing CP unit was taken off in Eugene and 7014 lead, most likely to Portland where cab signals are required on the ... (more)

Definitely the highlight of the Portland railroad community was the two former SP/SSW geeps handling the local out of Barnes Yard this year.

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)

Without any camera equipment on front, 4449 looks like a classic steam era express as it rolls into the eastern Colombia river basin. A few miles ahead, it will wye at the Celilo bridge.

A Portland Western transfer leaves Albina Yard. The lead unit is a former Cotton Belt SD45 (SSW 9153), that eventually went on to the SP rebuild program before becoming under ownership of Genese a... (more)

Two of UP's newest motors hang out behind the Albina shops on a cold and hazy September morning.

I was able to find much on this locomotive besides that it seems to have most likely worked at the ARCO refinery in Blaine, Wa. UPY 1147 still awaits a future in its SP patch-job paint.

UP 1117 leads a decent set of loaded cars of the Lompoc Branch.

The empty return train to Trona with 3 former SP motors on point.

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.

With so little sunlight this month, it almost seems unreal to see Vancouver illumintaed this morning. BNSF 7182 is about to head on to the the Fallbridge Sub with a new CSX Tier 4 in consist, whil... (more)

MCVX 911119 is a classroom designed to instruct emergency responders the appropriot way to handle potential incidents involving Oil trains. The coastline will potentially pick up more oil traffic,... (more)

A special full of chartered cars heads south.

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)