A personal favorite, bloody nose 1124 with SP lettering rolls east as fall has peaked for Portland.

After coming north on a manifest yesterday, UP 1996 trails on a power move to Brooklyn Yard. The consist will probably be heading out on a southbound Z at some point.

A well worn pinkbonnet departs Vancouver Yard, leading either a TACPAS or SEAPAS train east.

A tired looking ACe passes a sister potash train heading for Portland.

MH 88 has had its reporting marks changed to SDCX, for a leasing group called Sandton Rail. Iowa Pacific and Mount Hood Railroad have been in the news for financial reasons and hopefully they can ... (more)

BNSF 629 made a lucky appearance leading a train on daylight savings 2019. After adding cars in Vancouver, the two 6 series Dash-9s departed for points east with faded Santa Fe glory on the headen... (more)

On a very spooky and clear Halloween 2019, BNSF has dressed up as a quartet of CN GE power. This power came of a oil train and the lead unit was former UP 9094 and previously CNW 8546.

UP has brought two of these relatively new slug sets to Albina Yard. From what i could dig up, most of these are rebuilds of former Missouri Pacific SD38-2s.

After playing a gig with my band Supernatural Beavers at the Museum, i checked out the yard including this original NP F7A. Extremely cool collection and live music on Saturdays following the trai... (more)

After UP has been repainting the holdouts from the mergers and its own fleet aggressively the last few years, this patched Souther Pacific motor is a welcome sight. Former SP 280 has been hanging ... (more)

BNSF 2088 still retains it's classic BN colors as here, switching Green Transfer & Storage in North Portland. The facility receives steel loads frequently. 2088 and sister BNSF 2096 have had PTC u... (more)

UPY 356 was built as CNW 6865. This new slug set includes UPY 456, a former MP SD38-2 converted into a Slug known as a PS6B. The slugs rely on power from the mother unit but provide a higher maxim... (more)

A large portion of Coos Bays former power awaits disposition. New units have arrived on property as of September in a new company paint highlight of teal, instead of white.

I ran into into another one of these units this year at the former McCloud railway here: https://www.railpictures.net/photo/704763/ These yellow units were painted this color by US Steel in Pit... (more)

Built in 1952, this AS-616 has regained its former SP number. After leaving the SP system, the unit worked the Oregon and Northwestern, an eastern Oregon lumber railroad until the closing of the m... (more)