BNSF heads east up the Columbia River Gorge near Maryhill. Majestic Mt. Hood looms in the background. In the middle of it all is a happy camper. Next trip up to the Gorge I hope to nab that perfec... (more)

On a beautiful spring evening, DPU UP 5398 pushes our train through the yard in Eugene. Spencer Butte rises in the background, hinting at what lies ahead.... Cascade Summit.

A UP stack trains heads east thru Ruthton Point in the Columbia River Gorge.

The flyover at Frost. Flying fast, and flying low.

A CORP train, with some dirty UP power, knocks down the semaphore at Camas Swale.

Amtrak's Coast Starlight, still sporting some snow, makes it's descent from the snowy Cascade Summit. Next stop Eugene, home of the U of O Ducks.

Look at that beautiful scenery, and there's a train too!

A GP 9 in a SP paint scheme sits in the Portland & Western yard in Eugene, Or

Some CORP power camps out in Creswell, Oregon. I spent almost an hour doing closeup photography on this train before I discovered this little foreground gem as I was driving away.

Everybody and everything deserves a day off now and then. A rare sunny day in the Pacific Northwest finds these two old timers basking in the late afternoon sun. Up front is 1803 wearing tradtio... (more)

A future engineer? Everybody wants their photo taken with the Rio Grande heritage unit, including this little guy perched upon dads's shoulders while mom hurries to get the shot.

5417 roars up the hill through Oakridge, past a long line of stored center beams.

Power here, power there, power everywhere. UP power glides down the Columbia. In the distant background is the John Day Dam generating electrical power, and wind turbines on the hill generating m... (more)