The first snowing of the season drops a light dusting on the floor of the gorge as an empty oil train heads back to Canada.

The inaugural 2019 Holiday Train steams past the Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge in southeast Portland.

You might think this is somewhere in Oklahoma or Texas. Instead, this is a Willamette & Pacific train running on Southern Pacific's Tillamook Branch in the southeast suburbs of Portland, Oregon. ... (more)

A rare daylight appearance of the "Harbor Turn". The train died here last night and is now completing their run to Tigard, OR.

Portland & Western's McMinnville Hauler is descending the east side of Rex Hill. This trackage is no longer in service.

An extra Newberg Turn takes the connecting track from the Tillamook Branch to the Newberg Branch in January 1993. In less than two months, this traffic will be handled by the new Willamette & Paci... (more)

Portland & Western's first ever train crosses Rex Hill on a perfect summer morning. This train positioned locomotives for the startup of operations the following Monday. The scenic trackage had be... (more)

When Portland & Western started operating, they inherited a GM Parts Distribution Center as a customer on the former Oregon Electric. The light rail project to Portland's west suburbs was built on... (more)

Portland & Western's OE Hauler switches out the yard at Tigard on a summer morning.

The Clackamas Switcher is running eastbound on the Tillamook Branch during a cold winter day. The large white apartment building in the background was originally built as a substation for SP's Red... (more)

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.

Portland & Western's first locomotive leads the inaugural PNWR train out of Newberg in August 1995.

Here is an example of CTC on a branchline. After taking cars to Port of Tillamook Bay, the eastbound Clackamas Switcher passes the end of CTC on the Tillamook Branch at Greton. From here west to ... (more)

The head brakeman takes in the sights as Southern Pacific's Toledo Hauler rolls through the campus of Oregon State University.

Appearances can be deceiving. After a derailment near Toledo was blamed on leased SD9s, Willamette & Pacific borrowed a set of Southern Pacific GP40s and slugs for its Toledo Hauler until its ex-A... (more)