Hitchin' a ride. A lone Mower Lumber Company "woodhick" hitches a ride up Cass Hill on a consist of empty log bunks headed for the logging camp at Spruce, just over a mile ahead. ... (more)

Skookum with a string of empties. Columbia River Belt Line #7 "Skookum" charges compass west up the hill at Vallejo Mill (MP 30.3) with a string of empty log bunks destined for a ... (more)

Columbia River Belt Line Railway #7 "Skookum". Here's a close-up, low-angle view of "Skookum" as she brings her newly turned log train onto the wye in the Niles Yard. N... (more)

Log train over Alameda Creek. Columbia River Belt Line Railway #7 "Skookum" hauls her demonstration log train over Farwell Bridge, crossing Alameda Creek on a sunny, February morn... (more)

"Skookum" struts her stuff. When the very unique Columbia River Belt Line #7 "Skookum" emerged from her near total restoration in late 2018, she had issues. It was as if she enjoyed being ... (more)

Two foot to the quarries. With brake club in hand, Brakeman Bryce Weeks protects the rear of his Monson Railroad freight as it backs onto a siding, deep in the woods of Maine.

Mr. Weeks ... (more)

Crossing Leatherbark Run. The former Moore-Keppel Climax #6, now Cass Scenic Railroad #9, hauls her log train across the little bridge on Leatherbark Run, heading up the hill toward Whittak... (more)

Just because they can. Cass Scenic Railroad is known for periodically rolling out multiple locomotives and putting on double-headers, triple-headers and Shay races. It has become a traditi... (more)

Almost heaven.... There are very few places left in the world where on any given day, you can expect to see 3-5 hot steam locomotives. You can count those places on the fingers of one han... (more)

Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to the canyon we go.... Columbia River Belt Line Railway #7 and crew run along the shoreline of the Nehalem River in Wheeler Heights, Oregon, en route to the Nehalem ... (more)

An Oregon Log Hog in its natural environment. The crew of Columbia River Belt Line Railway #7 pose with their unusual 2-4-4-2 "log hog" during a brief servicing stop in the Nehale... (more)

Reflection at Smith Lake. A calm and chilly morning finds the crew of Columbia River Belt Line Railway #7 "Skookum" hauling a string of empty log bunks north across the causeway a... (more)

Rumbling across 2nd Nehalem. At a stately pace, Columbia River Belt Line Railway #7 rumbles across the 2nd Nehalem River Bridge about a quarter mile south of the little town of Mohler, Oreg... (more)

At home in the woods of Oregon. One hundred and ten years after she was built, Columbia Belt Line Railway #7, "Skookum" is back at home in the woods of Oregon looking as good as t... (more)

Waking up sleepy Garibaldi. After sitting for six decades as a pile of rusty parts, Columbia River Belt Line Railway #7 "Skookum" lets the residents of the Oregon Port of Garibald... (more)