Lebanon, Oregon is named after Lebanon, Tennessee. One is home of the Albany and Eastern Railroad and the other is home to the Nashville and Eastern Railroad. Coincidence? Oh look, Christmas lights. The Santa Maria Valley RR 2-6-2 # 205 was built in 1924 and ran until 1950. It was a display in Santa Maria California until the 1980s when a gentleman in Oregon bought it and, with friends, literally spent half a lifetime restoring it to running condition. In this particular moment, the SJVR 205 is pulling the Santiam Christmas Excursion. Santiam is a river and about 400 other places in the general area use the name, it's not a newspeak term for Santa, or anything like that. Power for the Christmas lights is provided by a generator in the open-air passenger car behind the tender.
A continuously growing album of photos that IMHO reveal the awesome and seldom-seen beauty of the railroad world from the dimming of day to dawn's early light! From dusk to dawn, trains roll on! (I'm still finding gems of sunset-to-sunrise surprises!)
