The ZLCBR is descending down out of the Cascades on its way to Portland with the hottest train on the line. The daylight colors of UP 1996 distinctively stand out against the spring time green of... (more)
Three sets of helpers descend down the cascades over the Salt Creek Trestle, back to Oakridge where they will separate and wait to assist heavily southbound manifests. Note UP 2001 in the middle o... (more)
The sounds at Mariners games include more than the crack of Ichiro's bat and the smacking of a Felix Hernandez fastball into Kenji's red catcher's mitt. Railroad sounds are as much a part of the ... (more)
The SP 4449 crosses the Willamette Drawbridge on its way out of Portland. They barely 4 miles into their 2500 mile journey to Train Festival 2009 in Owosso, MI.
An ex-SP GP9 heads through the streets of Harrisburg on the ex-BN/SP&S OE line. The American Turn is heading back to Eugene after switching out the mill at America.
Who says the Northwest has no fall colors? While they might not be as extensive and diverse as New England's fall colors, spots of strong fall colors do exist out west. Even in the middle of Nor... (more)
Two Canadian Pacific locomotives guide the Hinkle bound manifest over the 3920 feet long Joso Bridge. The bridge is 194 feet over the Snake River on the Union Pacific's connection to the CP in Ea... (more)
The last Coos Bay Hauler heads over a SP Harriman era truss bridge spanning the Siuslaw River for the final time in the late autumn light. CORP embargoed the line and eventually sold it to the Po... (more)
The UP's Old yard Job goes about its business on the industrial trackage in West Eugene with a bizarrely repainted SP GP40-2.
An empty Canpotex potash train heads through the Wallula Gap back to Canada after unloading at Terminal 5 in Portland, OR.
The other end of a "tree tunnel" yields the Harbor Turn with George Lavacot's repainted Black Widow SD9 on the point.
An ex-Wisconsin Southern SW1200 wobbles along the Peninsula Terminal's short industrial line in North Portland.
UP 1996 holds on to its white souvenir from its trip over the Cascades as it descends into the Willamette Valley.
An ex-BN "tri-clops," a three-windowed SD60M, leads the Denver to Tacoma stack train over the Clark Fork River in the fading light of a mid-summer day.
A BNSF grain train races west into the fading light of the day through the rock tunnel at Drano Lake.
