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.

The Renton Rocket makes its way downtown Seattle with a load of Boeing 737 fuselages for assembly.

Warbonnet 704 is missing half the cigar brand logo. It's bring up a military train with a load of strykers.

UP 4404 is bringing empty auto cars south in a reposition move. The train will park south of San Luis and await a fresh crew and daytime Amtrak traffic before proceeding down the coastline.

On the last day of June the southbound Coast Starlight is running on time after arriving early into SLO. The new baggage cars really pop out on these trains.

Portland Western 663 heads across the Lake Oswego Railroad bridge on route to Willbridge Yard in Portland.

A former BN triclops idles on the Tacoma engine tracks with a variety EMD power including SD70Ace's and a SD9, BNSF 1599.

With a little bit of dumb luck, i pulled up to the Vancouver train station and saw this empty trash train slowly pulling out of the station. With much haste i dashed to the top of the bridge to ca... (more)

With a think tint of smoke overhead from fires burning in British Columbia, bluebonnet 2790 shuffles around steel coil cars around the Rivergate Yard.

Portland & Western's Santa Fe heritage fleet departs south to Albany, Or.

A rare daylight appearance of the "Harbor Turn" carries empty log cars back to reload from the Albany & Eastern and fresh cut lumber from Banks, OR.

Fresh paint with a transfer to BNSF lake yard.

Another 70 car empty autorack leaves San Luis Obispo in the afternoon. This train had some extra power already out of Milpitas but picked up two other units in SLO that came up on another repositi... (more)

Also on the last day of 2015, an Albany eastern transfer from the Portland Western leaves the yard, heading back to Lebanon. The glare of the yard switcher, a former SP SD7, oscillates as a dry fr... (more)

Albany & Eastern's restored SP SD9 passes the former site of Weldwood Lumber on route to Weyerhaeuser via the Sweet Home branch.