Steaming into Wheeler. Polson Logging Company #2 and her short freight train put the finishing touches on a bucolic scene as they enter the little seaside village of Wheeler, Oregon on a ch... (more)

Morning freight to Hillsboro. There's still a chill in the calm morning air as the crew of a beefy logging Mikado takes a cut of well-used freight cars up the SP Tillamook Branch, bound for... (more)

"Skookum", a 2-4-4-2 Mallet Baldwin steam locomotive built in 1909 and meticulously renovated over the past 15 years is crossing the second Nehalem River Bridge on the Oregon Coast Sceni... (more)

McCloud River Railroad 2-6-2 Prairie steam locomotive #25 with its Willamette & Pacific caboose just crossed the second Nehalem River Bridge on the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad south of Mohler, OR... (more)

In October 1995, Southern Pacific 4449 spent a week on Portland & Western doing public relations work. On the last day that the steamer operated, the late David Goodheart set up this photo op in ... (more)

McCloud River Railroad 2-6-2 Prairie steam locomotive #25 hauls a mixed freight train through the "rain forest" on the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad south of Mohler, OR.

A side portrait of "Skookum", a 2-4-4-2 Mallet Baldwin steam locomotive built in 1909 and meticulously renovated over the past 15 years, running in reverse back to Garibaldi, OR. A fishe... (more)

Yard moves. The early evening sun drops below a dark cloud deck as Polson Logging Company Mikado #2 drops her freight consist in the south Garibaldi Yard and heads to the engine shop for wa... (more)

Albany & Eastern's Mill City local crosses Thomas Creek near Scio, Oregon beside the historic Gilkey covered bridge headed for Lebanon. The job is operated by a one-man crew with a remote control ... (more)

An eastbound train of empties negotiates the vertical curve in the "Parachute" east of Olene. This is a hiking trail today.

"Skookum" in her natural environment. The 2-4-4-2 Mallet Baldwin steam locomotive built in 1909 and meticulously renovated over the past 15 years is running in reverse, hauling a string ... (more)

"Skookum" in her natural environment. The 2-4-4-2 Mallet Baldwin steam locomotive built in 1909 and meticulously renovated over the past 15 years hauls a string of empty log bunks along ... (more)

Symmetry in motion at Smith Lake. The morning mist has begun to give way to filtered sun as Polson Logging Co. Mikado #2 hauls a mixed freight north along the causeway at Smith Lake, just n... (more)

"Skookum", a 2-4-4-2 Mallet Baldwin steam locomotive built in 1909, hauls a string of empty log bunks across the causeway at Smith Lake on a foggy morning.

UP 7923 West leaves the small town of Biggs, OR, behind and heads for the The Dalles. The stack train will soon oass through the native American hamlet of Celilo.