Climbing the 1.1% grade of Lava Butte Summit a southbound loaded grainer gets a track warrant from CTC South Siding Switch Lava to Beal ( La Pine ) to meet one northbound.

BNSF 3800 leading a southbound oil train over Lava Butte Summit on the Oregon Trunk Subdivision.

After switching out the steel mill on the north side of town, power for the Mac Switcher returns to the depot for tieup. At the time, there were several wig wags in downtown McMinnville.

Bound for McMinnville, the outbound Whiteson Flyer departs Newberg, namesake of the Newberg Branch.

The outbound Toledo Hauler has just emerged from tunnel 24, and is crossing a trestle that spans the Yaquina River. Southern Pacific would operate the Toledo Branch for only eight more days befor... (more)

An extra Newberg Turn on Southern Pacific's Newberg Branch enters its namesake city on a clear winter Sunday. Startup of the Willamette & Pacific, which would end SP movements into Newberg on th... (more)

Southern Pacific's Whiteson Flyer arrives at Newberg on a sunny winter Saturday. Smurfit Newsprint's ex-Rock Island switcher is waiting for empties. Once the SP train completes its setout, the swi... (more)

An Amtrak Cascades trainset sits in Portland’s Union Station between runs, having recently arrived as train 517 from Vancouver, British Columbia – 187 miles to the north. (Vancouver, W... (more)

The daily 663/664 leaves Portland for Albany after crossing the Steel Bridge.

Looking like an SP local train in the late 1950s, an tourist train on POTB rolls northward in summer 1991.

OPR 801 was a casualty of the great Labor Day 2020 fires that ripped through Oregon. The future is uncertain for this locomotive, but the line didn't loose any of its shippers. OPR 1202 has taken ... (more)

Polson Logging #2 leads an empty log train into the Coast Range on a sunny October day.

OPR 801 was hit by one of the many fires that ravaged Oregon during the Labor Day weekend.The future is uncertain for this locomotive (hopefully salvageable), but the line didn't loose any of its ... (more)

The daily 663/664 drops down from the Hill as it approaches United Junction.

The daily 663/664 rolls past the Oregon Rail Heritage Center and local residents of Portland.