The Linnton job brings a cut of cars from the BN in St Johns with some nice late-winter snow on the ground.
The Linnton Switcher sorts cars for BP before heading over the Willamette to St. Johns. Rumor has it that Linnton Plywood will be torn down sometime this year.
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)
A usually nocturnal Albina-Albany transfer leaves Albina yard around noon. The former KCS locomotive was originally built for CNW as a SD45 but was rebuilt to SD40 specs for Kansas City Southern.
The PNWR's Oregon Electric Express rolls south through a field in the Willamette Valley. The lead unit was originally built as a CNW SD45.
A late Portland & Western OE Express heads south past an industry in Woodburn, Oregon.
With cars from the Georgia-Pacific mill at the current end of active track on PNWR's Astoria branch, the Wauna Turn approaches Clatskanie, where the train will lift five loaded centerbeams from th... (more)
Portland & Western Railroad's Astoria line train runs down A Street upon entering the town of Rainier, OR.