After unloading guests at Siskiyou siding for a bus trip back to Ashland, the "Sunset" enters Siskiyou Line Tunnel 13. An SP official next to me dryly observed, "I sure hope the D'A... (more)

The North Coast Daylight rolls toward Eureka on Labor Day Weekend. The Scotia Bluffs the train is passing were a constant source of problems for the railroad.

The eastbound Pioneer tiptoes through a derailment site on Union Pacific along the Columbia River. That is the east end of Burlington Northern's yard at Wishram across the river.

An NRHS excursion from Portland to Astoria stops for a photo runby on the ex-SP&S line to Astoria. The lead GP38 was ordered by SP&S and delivered to BN.

An eastbound manifest rolls through the Butte Valley, in the shadow of Mount Shasta. The Friendly Southern Pacific has just a little over a year of independence remaining.

Two brand-new SD70Ms make a move at the west end of Dunsmuir Yard.

With the Amedee Mountains for a backdrop, an ASEUM prepares to depart for Klamath Falls on the Modoc Line. This train of lumber empties should arrive in Eugene the following day.

Amtrak's midday southbound Talgo passes the world's largest egg.

A quartet of grimy Southern Pacific SDs roll through the Devil's Garden. This area is a lava flow created by eruptions of nearby Mount Shasta.

September 13, 1991 was a perfect late summer morning in Sycan, Oregon. Weyerhaeuser was beginning the process of moving all rolling stock off the Oregon, California & Eastern prior to abandonment.... (more)

The Union Pacific E units lead an excursion train that is traveling from Bend to Portland, Oregon. In this image, the train is following Trout Creek into the Deschutes River Canyon.

Less than two months after the Southern Pacific/Rio Grande merger, an eastbound lumber drag on the Modoc Line passes the water tower at Madeline. One of the first actions taken after the merger wa... (more)

Long before anyone ever heard of "Tiger King," a tiger-striped GP50 leads an autorack train west through the Columbia River Gorge.

Just about everything in this image either doesn't exist anymore, or is no longer located in the state of Oregon. The unlikely combination of an F40, a PA-1 and an RSD-5 sun themselves on a spring... (more)

Done switching industries for the day, Lake County's ex-Nickel Plate GP7 is returning to the railroad's shop. After completing some paperwork, the train will be off to the UP interchange at Altura... (more)