eastbound WP train arriving Portola, CA
After a long day of running an A-B-A set of F7's and Zephyr cars, two switchers (WP 707 and WP 2001) team up to switch out the four cars owned by the museum on a spectacular Halloween afternoon, a... (more)
An ex SP GP60 leads two sets of SP baretables east out of Portola for storage.
It's early morning and the sky starts to lighten behind 6936 on the 4th of July. In a couple hours 6936 will lead a Museum Train to Roseville then to Dunsmuir for the Dunsmuir RR days.
One of the Fab Four sits shut down waiting some work at Portola, as seen from inside the shops.
UP 6946 was donated by UP to the museum in Portola. UP also shipped UP 6912 to the museum and allowed them to strip it for parts. The museum was closed for the season during our visit to Portola b... (more)
Having stopped at Portola to change both the Amtrak crew and the UP pilot, detouring #6 is headed East out of Portola along the Feather River. Following the route of the original CZ, this train wi... (more)
Western Pacific GP7 707 idles in Portola, California, in October 1973. It won't be long now before the first snows hit the Feather River Canyon, and that snowplow will be used as intended.
Three former WP F units gather and pose at the Portola Railroad Museum in 1994 (now Western Pacific RR Museum). The 913 and 921-D are two of the “Fab 4”. The Fab 4 were the last four WP F unit... (more)
A eastbound frieght is seen at Reno Junction having just come out of the Chilcoot Summit tunnel
A line of stored boxcars stretches as far as the eye can see on a cold March morning. The Loyalton Industrial Lead, formerly the WP Loyalton branch, served a lumber mill. The mill is gone and th... (more)
Yes, kodachrome in black and white... SP 2873 rests after being ran in the 'Run A Locomotive' program.
As a hot eastbound Z train changes crews on the main, an STEK (Stockton-Elko manifest) idles in the yard.
UP 6195 East departs Portola on a July 4th morning as an STEK behind United Way engine 3300 idles in the yard.
