PORTLAND OR Aug 20 1981 — Portland Terminal S4 43 goes about its switching duties at Lake Yard. Alco built the unit for North Pacific Terminal (b/n 79560) as NPT 43 in March 1952. When the line ... (more)

PORTLAND OR May 22 1984 — Portland Terminal S2 39 sits at the engine facility. The unit was built in 1949 for Northern Pacific Terminal as NPT 39. It became PTRC 39 when the railroad changed its... (more)

A light power move from Albina Yard leaves H1 BNSF 1013 trailing past Union Station.

UP 1124 leads the Kenton local past one of the many stripped and burnt cars which litter North Portland.

SP 4449 was fired up for the ORHF 10th celebration as OPR 100 leads excursions in the background. Follow me @j.po_railphotos for more photos and videos or trains!

OPR 100 pulls the ORHF 10th anniversary train. Follow me @j.po_railphotos for more photos and videos or trains!

Passing Through Portland. On March 28, 2022, Amtrak Train 11 (Coast Starlight) was crossing the Steel Bridge in Portland, Oregon with Webb Rail's former Northern Pacific Railway Budd built ... (more)

AMTK 500 is being helped after have issues with the lead Charger locomotive. The goat boat leaders are starting to make a return to the rails with installation of PTC. I didn't expect my first cat... (more)

49 gets towed into position for a charter along the Oregon Pacific in Portland.

Finally got me a Pepsi can!

MP 3165, a non-dynamic brake SD40-2 showed up at Albina Yard, Portland, OR in run-through/mileage equalization. Five years later in 1982 UP would react to the BN-Frisco merger (1980) by merging wi... (more)

A string of UP GP20 and GP9 B units were in storage at Albina Yard, Portland, OR in December 1974. The 309B and 347B are GP20Bs made from GP9Bs by UP in Omaha. The third unit is a GP9B not rebuilt... (more)

An EMD factory built GP20, UP487, idles at Albina Yard engine facilities with GP30 no. 839 on a dreary December day in 1974. This unit featured the flared 48 inch rear fan plus a 36 in. fan covere... (more)

BN RS-11 no. 4182, another RS-11 still in NP paint, and a former SP&S C424 are parked at BN's Hoyt St. Yard in downtown Portland, OR between assignments. Since SP&S was the one Alco heavy railroad... (more)

UP DD40AX 6945 and mate get serviced at Albina Yard in Portland, OR after handling a priority freight west over the Blue Mountains and through the Columbia River Gorge. The line east from Portland... (more)