This frosty Saturday morning found the captive Penn Central heritage unit NS 1073, splitting two BNSF locomotives as the trio shuffles around the staging tracks. The new white Cryo-Trans refers we... (more)
The Daylight is out and about, under steam once again with the 2015 holiday train.
One of UP's newest additions hangs around Portland on turkey day. I think i got the new designation of this Tier IV compliant GE.
A former BNSF switcher now works daily shuffling grain and scrap metal cars around the Great Western Malting silos in Vancouver. Apparently, the aging locomotive was built for the Northern Pacific... (more)
Amtrak Cascade train 501 heads south to PDX, heading past the small BNSF Willbridge yard in North West Portland.
With so little sunlight this month, it almost seems unreal to see Vancouver illumintaed this morning. BNSF 7182 is about to head on to the the Fallbridge Sub with a new CSX Tier 4 in consist, whil... (more)
Not in Kansas anymore... The variety of BNSF has graciously landed a clean KCS GEVO on the engine tracks in Vancouver. The sun has come out today, at least for the morning.
Some interesting equipment rests at the OPR shops in the Milwaukie neighborhood of south east Portland.
Two cigar-branded Gevos dart across the Columbia River as fall sinks into the Pacific Northwest. With the harvest, grain trains are plentiful and commonly have Canadian power.
BNSf 1746 and 1779 have been pulled from their usual Vancouver-Portland transfer and put into service on a mid-day rail train, heading to Portland .
After a series of storms some good weather has come to the PNW. Here we see a westbound empty vehicle train making up speed after a work window.
Route of the Empire Builder now serves the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad on the former SP Tillamook Branch.
The Portland-Willbridge yard transfer rounds the grain silo.
Westbound grainer heads along the Lewis and Clark highway, west of the small defunct logging town of Hood, Wa.
Armor yellow at Albina.
