Klamath Falls bills itself as Oregon's City of Sunshine. On a clear fall day, two southbound BNSF trains await a call for a trip to Keddie.

The first southbound Swift RoadRailer train operated by BNSF between the Northwest and Southern California highballs Wocus siding on UP's Cascade Subdivision. Given the Santa Fe’s legacy of inte... (more)

A Union Pacific manifest highballs Algoma siding along Upper Klamath Lake on the Cascade Subdivision. In nine miles, the train will pause for a crew change at Klamath Falls, Oregon. The signals in... (more)

A BNSF baretable rattles over the north switch of Union Pacific's Wocus siding. The train will return to home rail at Bieber Line Junction on the south side of Klamath Falls, Oregon. Since this ph... (more)

A tastefully patched espee GP60 leads YBA55 back west to home in golden light.

The tracks flow through and follow the form of the landscape, and trees crowd around the right of way on this age-old and little known line in Oregon's coast range mountains.

Wearing the same paint it did on the day it left the EMD factory, PNWR 2306 leads the Toledo Hauler east through the autumn leaves minutes after dawn, with a healthy-sized train of loaded boxcars ... (more)

An eastbound garbage train in the Columbia River Gorge.

An eastbound garbage train in the Columbia River Gorge.

A southbound FedEx repositioning train leaving the Columbia River Gorge.

Coos Bay Rail Line's southbound Hauler heads for Coos Bay; the hoppers on the head end are headed to add ballast to the currently out-of-service portion of the line between Coos Bay and Coquille, ... (more)

"I don't like sand." But on the coast, it's just a fact of life. The northbound Coos Bay Hauler, sporting just a single MP15DC today, rolls north towards Hauser along the famous Orego... (more)

The afternoon Cascades service from Eugene to Seattle nears Junction City, Oregon. It is passing the water tower for the new Oregon State Hospital, which opened a few years ago. The hill in the di... (more)

Union Pacific's Heppner Local passes the elevators at Lexington, Oregon on the Heppner Branch. The now-abandoned line ended service early in summer 1994.