Some switching power and UP 5387, a DPU are mingling with a tractor trailer and a Mustang.
While back home, i had to get a grab shot of the SLO based helper set. With lack of traffic, UP has gone back to using SD70M's while storing the SD60M's that have been used for helper service and ... (more)
The phase I heritage painted locomotive moves the southbound Starlight into Portland Union Station. This pair of locomotives brought me into Portland the day before.
With a good portion of this years snow melting away, a WB empty garbage hold the main at Lyle while a loaded garbage passes. This is creating the illusion that this train is long than it really is... (more)
A little patriotic color for Memorial Day. This is from when UP 4141 toured the UP system following H.W. Bush's funeral.
A relatively new Tier IV locomotive is starting to show some grime after making back and forth trips between Oregon and California this winter.
Clean Stickers!
A goat has found its way to Albina Yard. BNSF power isn't uncommon to the yard but usually doesn't make it to the engine house tracks, especially heritage I locomotives. This one has been here for... (more)
NP 1735 now serves as seating for the Mount Hood Brewing Company in Portland. Located right off the Oregon Pacific track to Milwaukee and the Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation, the caboose was appar... (more)
As folks sit at a crawl in work hour traffic, Portland & Westerns 664 makes good time leaving Vancouver for Albany today.
UP 8051 Pushes a manifest south. The steel bridge to the left grants access to Union Station and the interchange with BNSF.
As protestors gather only a few miles away, the Amtrak veterans unit leads the eastbound Empire Builder to Spokane.
Anxious feelings of defeat turn to joy as the sun opens up on 4449.
A trio of SD60M. Note the red strip still on 2290.
A UP K-Line train passes BNSF power in the Tacoma Yard.