Not quite 117 miles into its 310 mile trip to Seattle, Cascades train 508 is already an hour and fifteen minutes behind schedule. Small wonder that railfans in the Puget Sound area call this train... (more)

This may look like Southern Pacific 70-ton 5100, and it was in fact Southern Pacific 70-ton 5100 when built by General Electric in April 1949 (and until 12/22/76), but it is actually Oregon Pacifi... (more)

You might think this is somewhere in Oklahoma or Texas. Instead, this is a Willamette & Pacific train running on Southern Pacific's Tillamook Branch in the southeast suburbs of Portland, Oregon. ... (more)

The Portland Terminal Railroad was once an interurban railroad that had, since the mid-1950s, been owned 50/50 by the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific railroads to handle the remaining freight b... (more)

The outbound Whiteson Flyer is a couple of miles into its trip to McMinnville as it crosses Milwaukie's Kellogg Lake. The original Pacific Highway once went under the steel span at left. Lead moto... (more)

After performing some work on the Tillamook Branch, the Clackamas Switcher is returning to Brooklyn Yard in Southeast Portland.

The SP Clack Switcher is crossing Kellogg Lake in the Portland suburb of Milwaukie. At the time, this trackage was part of SP's Tillamook Branch. The train was returning to Brooklyn Yard after pi... (more)

A special train for the Genesee & Wyoming Board of Directors crosses the Willamette River. At the time, the trackage was still operated by Southern Pacific as part of its Tillamook Branch.

Due to a tunnel fire, BN's Albany to Pasco, WA roadfreight detours on the Southern Pacific's Tillamook Branch.

MKT heritage with a fresh coat of paint rolls a MOW train out of Portland.

After carrying several distinguished Genessee & Wyoming corporate figures on a run between Milwaukie and Tigard, the SP 4449 leads its short consist of four passenger cars tender first back to the... (more)

The "Portland & Western" 4449 heads for Brooklyn Yard after ten days on the road in Oregon, serving as a public relations icon for the Genesee & Wyoming operations.

Wearing the colors of the Portland Traction Railroad which are the colors the locomotive was originally given in 1952. This locomotive continues to operate, hustling refer cars between Milwaukie a... (more)

Oregon Pacific's colorful GMD-1 spends a quiet Sunday morning at rest near the OPR shop. This unit was built as Canadian National 1045 in 1959 and was delivered with A1A-A1A trucks. B-B trucks w... (more)

Former Portland Traction Co. SW-1 100 rests on a quite Sunday morning adjacent to the Oregon Pacific shops. The little unit was acquired in February 1952 to replace PRTD electric freight motors a... (more)