An SD40N/slug combo brings a cut of double stack cars up the Brooklyn Yard lead.

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.

An eastbound stack train rolls through the Columbia River Gorge on a summer morning.

Having just met a freight train at Quinton, Amtrak's Pioneer blazes eastward along the Columbia River. Train 26's next station stop will be at Hinkle, site of Union Pacific's massive yard.

A westbound Union Pacific train on the Kenton Line is rolling to a stop at Champ siding in Northeast Portland.

A empty westbound tie train rounds the Pritchard Creek horseshoe as it climbs Encina Hill. It is likely bound for the creosoting plant at The Dalles.

A clean T4 ACe rolls its Ogden-Portland train down the Columbia River at the Deschutes River crossing. While the sky was cloudless, daytime temperatures were in the low thirties and two days afte... (more)

Not long after UP swallowed up CNW, a pair of flashy North Western GEs climb Encina Hill in Eastern Oregon with a Z train.

Union Pacific's big 1995 excursion to the Northwest is rolling along the Oregon Trail near Quartz, Oregon.

A Union Pacific manifest rolls eastward along the Columbia River.

Late on a winter afternoon, the southbound Coast Starlight makes its station stop at Albany, Oregon.

A westbound Union Pacific manifest rolls into the setting sun along the Columbia River.

Burlington Northern Alco C636 4364 rests at the roads Portland Yard late on a dreary fall day. These are former Spokane Portland and Seattle units

A spotless T4 leds an Ogden, UT to Portland, OR manifest past some of the few remaining searchlight signals on UP's Portland sub. The Tier 4 loco Ace was running solo on the head end with two remo... (more)

A UP Seattle, WA to Gilliam, OR trash train is running through a snow storm as it glides along the Columbia river. The snow would continue to pile up leading to the closure of I84 and Washington S... (more)