Powered by a pair of GE B40-8s, an Albany & Eastern log train has just exchanged empties for loads at the Teevin Bros. log yard and reload facility at Crabtree, Oregon, and is departing for Lebano... (more)

Things feel "just right" in this 2018 scene as a black-widow painted EMD SD9 sends up a plume of exhaust and the engineer brings the throttle back another notch as the Candy Cane Express... (more)

An eastbound passenger special crosses the Nehalem River in Oregon's Coast Range during fall 1991. The curve across the river marks the northernmost point reached by Southern Pacific.

An eastbound passenger special rolls along Nehalem Bay in fall 1991. The train would cross the Coast Range and terminate at Banks.

An eastbound POTB freight train crosses the large timber trestle over Oregon Highway 47 near Buxton. This trackage is now out of service.

The Oregon Coastline Express makes a station stop at Garibaldi.

A pair of former Southern Pacific Cadillacs work the Trask River Lumber spur. The Port of Tillamook Bay's industrial park is housed in a former WWII Naval Air Station that was a blimp base.

BNSF 7394 leads a 360 axle southbound manifest out of Cascan.

Using an ex-CNJ RDC, the Oregon Coastline Explorer nears a passenger stop in Rockaway Beach.

A trio of GEs handle grain empties with ease passing the neck of the Deschutes River on a hot and dry afternoon. BNSF's Oregon Trunk Sub follows the white water south and is visible to the upper l... (more)

While exploring the Oregon Coast on vacation, we stumbled upon the small town of Garibaldi. We had made a "wrong turn" into town and moments later stumbled upon the crew at the Oregon Co... (more)

a recent recovery of some old digital files brought back some images of mine from 2018! Including the Lerro Productions charter at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Oct, 2018. Center stage... Sou... (more)

Portland & Western's OE Switcher crosses SW Millikan way in Beaverton, on a spur that was used to service a GM parts distribution center. Both the GM facility and the spur are now gone.

One of the new CP heritage units made a surprise visit leading in Oregon! The trailing CP unit was taken off in Eugene and 7014 lead, most likely to Portland where cab signals are required on the ... (more)

Southern Pacific's Weyerhaeuser Local heads west to switch industries in Springfield. By 1995, the days of the SD9s were coming to a close.