Relics at the Santa Cruz and Big Tree
A maintenance train with a couple loads of ballast and some flat cars with track sections heads to the Moiser, Or. The train is en route following a derailment of an oil train that has stopped all... (more)
Some extra power sits on the helper spur in slo.
A very rare Easter egg as former Santa Fe, ATSF 664 leads a Pasco bound manifest out of Vancouver Yard.
BNSF 629 made a lucky appearance leading a train on daylight savings 2019. After adding cars in Vancouver, the two 6 series Dash-9s departed for points east with faded Santa Fe glory on the headen... (more)
Nice to see another Warbonnet (fake bonnet) among all the H3 power these days. BNSF waits for assignment on a warm summer morning.
Pacific Nights
The Western Pacific heritage units sits in front of the I5/405 junction during a sun break on an otherwise gray and stormy Sunday.
The M-F SB morning CORP train to Roseberg passes under the single lane highway bridge that leads into the small community of Oakland, OR.
An Easter special Santa Fe, ATSF 664 leads a Pasco bound manifest out of Tunnel 1 on the Fallbridge Sub.
Oakland bound coal loads cross the famous Keddie Wye on a late summer afternoon.
OPR 1413 idles away on a warmer than lately March day
Once common on these coal haulers, an H2 MAC leads a loaded train into Vancouver. Most likely this locomotive came out of storage recently.
Winterail 2017 brought lots of train buffs to the central Willamette Valley this year in Corvallis. Around 10 people or so gathered at the Lake Oswego bridge to shoot 663 following the event.
A couple former SP AC4400CWs, a SD60M, and the "Pink Ribbon" hang on in Albina at the end of March.
