The SP Board of Directors tour the Shasta Route on a hot August day. Paint on the SDPs was so fresh you could smell it as the train went by.

A trio of SD70Ms roll a manifest into Redding, California on the Shasta Route.

Less than two months after the Willamette & Pacific started operations, five leased SP 'Cadillacs' tote the McMinnville Hauler west near Cipole. Since track speed was a uniform 10 MPH from McMinnv... (more)

Union Pacific 8444 crosses the Willow Creek Trestle near Madras on the Oregon Trunk. The train originated in Portland. It was carrying the Oregon Symphony to a concert in Bend that evening.

The fireman and baggage master on the westbound Empire Builder anxiously await the highball from Glasgow, Montana.

No one knew it at the time, but when SP 4449 departed Eugene and climbed the Cascades in June 1992, it was the last time it would ever happen. The Daylight train to the NRHS Convention in San Jose... (more)

The Amtrak funeral train of retired Talgo equipment passes the driving range at Eastmoreland Golf Course in Southeast Portland, Oregon. The cars are destined for Southern California.

Two empty grain trains await their turn to depart eastward on a fall afternoon.

Stored equipment of the Oregon, California & Eastern awaits a call to duty that will never come. The railroad began moving all rolling stock off the line shortly afterward, in preparation for aban... (more)

An excursion on Southern Pacific's Owens Valley narrow gauge line departs Laws on a fall afternoon in 1955. Today, SP locomotive 9 is on display at the Laws Railroad Museum. This image was recorde... (more)

The outbound Toledo Hauler has just emerged from tunnel 24, and is crossing a trestle that spans the Yaquina River. Southern Pacific would operate the Toledo Branch for only eight more days befor... (more)

Prior to entering service, the Trainbus is parked next to a Willamette Valley consist laying over at Eugene in fall 1981. The van was in Eugene for publicity photos. Trainbus was operated betwe... (more)

In a bucolic view of Northern California life, Santa Fe's 991 train rolls past the depot at Pinole.

In October 1987, a pair of slug sets normally found on Southern Pacific's Toledo Hauler are working as helpers in the Cascades. They display the result of ongoing operation in this service as they... (more)

A brand new set of GEs powers an eastbound intermodal train through Williams Junction, Arizona.