After switching out the Port of Tillamook Bay interchange, the Clackamas Switcher is returning to Brooklyn Yard. The train is passing the junction with Burlington Northern's former Oregon Electric... (more)

The outbound Whiteson Flyer is a couple of miles into its trip to McMinnville as it crosses Milwaukie's Kellogg Lake. The original Pacific Highway once went under the steel span at left. Lead moto... (more)

After UP has been repainting the holdouts from the mergers and its own fleet aggressively the last few years, this patched Souther Pacific motor is a welcome sight. Former SP 280 has been hanging ... (more)

Viewed from the US 20 overpass, the outbound Toledo Hauler passes the Gates Lumber Company sawmill west of Corvallis at Wrens. In less than a year, this trackage would be leased to Willamette & Pa... (more)

BNSF 2088 still retains it's classic BN colors as here, switching Green Transfer & Storage in North Portland. The facility receives steel loads frequently. 2088 and sister BNSF 2096 have had PTC u... (more)

Detouring around weather related issues in Northeast Oregon, a Union Pacific train is arriving at Klamath Falls, Oregon off the Modoc Line.

After performing some work on the Tillamook Branch, the Clackamas Switcher is returning to Brooklyn Yard in Southeast Portland.

The Toledo Hauler is passing through the Oregon Coast Range, heading to the massive Georgia Pacific mill at its namesake.

A westbound train of single stacked containers passes the Oregon City Municipal Elevator on Labor Day 1994. The new SDs pulling the train were delivered at the beginning of the summer. Note the pl... (more)

The Swift RoadRailer is about a half hour from Southern Pacific's Brooklyn Yard in southeast Portland, where it will end its run from Southern California.

UPY 356 was built as CNW 6865. This new slug set includes UPY 456, a former MP SD38-2 converted into a Slug known as a PS6B. The slugs rely on power from the mother unit but provide a higher maxim... (more)

UP NW2 No. 1080 works the yard in Portland, OR.

Just out of Union Pacific's Albina Yard, this Southern Pacific train is entering the interlocking at the east end of the Steel Bridge. It will enter home rail a few hundred yards ahead.

At the upper limit of tidewater, the Toledo Hauler heads for the coast along the Yaquina River.

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)