Citizens of Lakeview, Oregon celebrate Lake County's purchase of the SP branch line to Alturas. When the depot was constructed by the Nevada-California-Oregon, the rails in front of it were only t... (more)

Klamath Northern heads for the Southern Pacific interchange on a hot summer morning.

In the mid-1990s, some of the best railfanning in the state of Oregon happened Tuesday and Thursday mornings. That was when Willamette & Pacific's Corvallis Local went to the steam powered sawmill... (more)

With the Rose Festival fleet berthed at the Willamette River seawall, the northbound Mount Rainier arrives at Portland. The train originated in Eugene, and will continue on to Seattle. Locals like... (more)

An SD40N/slug combo brings a cut of double stack cars up the Brooklyn Yard lead.

A cold front has deposited snow on the floor of the Tualatin Valley, a rare sight. The Newberg Turn is running extra today, preparing for the climb over Rex Hill.

An eastbound lumber drag on the Modoc Line climbs the grade to Sage Hen summit.

A Sierra Railway passenger excursion rolls westward on a summer afternoon. The train is just out of Jamestown, crossing Bell Mooney Road.

BNSF has been around for over a year, but you could never tell by this photo of an eastbound at Ash Hill in California's Mojave Desert.

Late on a spring morning, the Willamette Valley discharges passengers at Eugene. By the end of the year, the train would be discontinued.

An eastbound train on the Sunset Route rolls through the desert east of Tucson, lead by a new GE.

In the winter of 1988-89, Union Pacific experienced severely cold temperatures in Oregon's Blue Mountains. Many trains were detoured around the problem area. Power for a detouring UP train just in... (more)

An eastbound cab hop rolls along the Siskiyou Line between Rogue River and Grants Pass.

The first train of the summer logging season eases into one of the tail tracks on the West Switchback. The empty log cars in this train will be spotted for loading at Bly.

One of the first eastbound trains on the Modoc Line after the SP/DRGW merger nears a crew change at Wendel, California.