A five pack of EMD's climb the walls of the Santa Maria Valley, heading south out of Guadalupe.
A string of power heads out the fuel racks with CREX 1417. BNSF 2093 is still in Cascade green and has ditch lights.
I got to see two macs on point of power moves. Lucky days.
UP 1124 switches the Kenton Line in front of the Nabisco factory.
Looking fairly clean, UP 8653 leads a stack train east toward the Columbia River mainline. The train includes visiting CSX 253 and UP 6233, which was formally SP 189.
Some light power came in from the south last night and has tied up next to UP 2430. Happy National Train day from San Luis Obispo!
Homecoming. Following the destruction of sister unit 801 seen here: https://www.railpictures.net/photo/748309, former OPR 803 is coming back on property to replace the former BN switcher that burn... (more)
The "Bakersfield" NPCU leads a northbound Capital train out of Jack London.
The day job has switched trains with the Linnton switcher (using this former KCS SD45 rebuild). This train will be set out for the nocturnal Harbor Turn that will take it to Tigard, to the OE expr... (more)
The clean and older locomotives switching cars at Albina make for a nice contrast of the usually dirty GEVO series and SD70M products roaming the PNW.
Some yard workers are reflecting a train being made up in Albina Yard.
On a warm June morning, former SP 9721 is sorting cars for the Portland Terminal in Guilds Lake Yard. UP 1124 has been assigned to the Eugene area for some time and hopefully will be working Portl... (more)
An old white faced BN switches a cut of cars around Vancouver.
The Coast Starlight rolls downgrade into San Luis Obispo around the mini horseshoe curve.
