The conductor and brakeman on the Corvallis Local ponder their future as the train arrives at Dallas. In less than three months, Willamette & Pacific took over operation of the Dallas Branch.

On Veterans Day 1996, a Willamette Valley Railway train passes the former depot at Mt. Angel. The GP35 had recently been acquired by WVRD, and was subsequently transferred to Albany & Eastern.

Before the Washington Central F units went to Renton for use on the Spirit of Washington dinner train, they were used on a photo freight between Yakima and Ellensburg.

An eastbound on the Modoc Line winds up for the short climb out of Mud Flat to Viewland. Once this modest grade is scaled, it will be all downhill to the crew change at Wendel.

Both Quincy Railroad locomotives are shown at the Sierra Pacific mill in Susanville. The operation to move Arizona fire-salvage logs to supply the mill there was the last hurrah for the old SP bra... (more)

Late on a summer evening, an eastbound heads for Oregon over the west flank of Mt. Shasta.

A westbound SP drag with a nice mix of power meets the northbound Coast Starlight in Portland's southeast suburbs.

The last loaded log train on Oregon, California & Eastern departs Bly for Klamath Falls. The railroad was abandoned a year later.

The railroad that never was - a westbound lead by a tunnel motor wearing the SPSF scheme is about to pass the only caboose Southern Pacific painted for the never-consummated merger.

During the winter of 1988-89, intense winter conditions in Oregon's Blue Mountains created havoc for Union Pacific. Trains were detoured over Southern Pacific's Modoc Line and via the Feather Rive... (more)

An excursion on the Oregon Trunk is returning to Portland from Bend in fall 1995. This spot at the confluence of the White River is the only place in the Deschutes River Canyon where the peak of M... (more)

A Union Pacific hotshot with brand new power is a few miles east of The Dalles on a summer morning.

An excursion on the Oregon Trunk to Bend is spotted at the old passenger station, awaiting departure for the return to Portland in the morning. Today, an expressway occupies the foreground, and th... (more)

Just after sunrise, the northbound Coast Starlight rolls through the Devil's Garden. This area is a lava flow created by eruptions of nearby Mount Shasta.

The northbound Coast Starlight pauses for a relief crew at Worden, Oregon. The train is 14 miles short of the next station stop at Klamath Falls, where crews normally change.