An eastbound lumber drag on the Modoc Line is about to make a 180 degree change in direction at Indian Camp Loop. This train is around five miles into the climb from Likely to Sage Hen.

It's beet season in the Klamath Basin. The Copic Local is heading out the Modoc Line with empties for the beet loaders at Merrill and Stronghold.

An eastbound passenger special rolls along Nehalem Bay in fall 1991. The train would cross the Coast Range and terminate at Banks.

Operating on the old SP Coalinga Branch, a SJVR train crosses the Santa Fe in downtown Hanford. It was just another blazing hot summer afternoon in the valley.

Under somewhat eerie light caused by smoke from forest fires, the North Coast Daylight rolls north at Dos Rios.

Late on a summer evening, the B&L Local heads for the Sierra Pacific mill in Loyalton. This is all gone now.

Originally built 45 years earlier specifically for assignment to Klamath Falls, a venerable SD9 switches cars on a summer evening. The BNSF 6126 was one of only two Great Northern SD9s with dynam... (more)

Roaring up the 3.3% grade to Black Butte, a westbound train bisects Weed, California on the Siskiyou Line. Power for the Weed Local is parked at right.

An extra Mill City Local goes out in the yard at Albany, Oregon to find its train. By month end, SP will have leased the Mill City Branch to the new Willamette Valley Railway.

A special demonstration Talgo run returns to Portland from Salem. The train is passing the timetable east end of Southern Pacific's Brooklyn Yard.

Yreka Western's freight train departs the interchange with Central Oregon & Pacific at Montague.

Here is an example of CTC on a branchline. After taking cars to Port of Tillamook Bay, the eastbound Clackamas Switcher passes the end of CTC on the Tillamook Branch at Greton. From here west to ... (more)

For a brief time in Oregon, locomotives of the mid-20th century and the early 21st century worked side by side. On Labor Day 1994, two brand new SD70Ms cool their heels in the siding at Labish, w... (more)

You always need red, white and blue on the Fourth of July. On America's 212th birthday, the Southwest Chief is flying low at Canyon Diablo, between Flagstaff and Winslow.

Central Oregon & Pacific's train from Eugene arrives at Cordes siding, on the north end of the Coos Bay Drawbridge.