P&W 2307 backs a couple cars away from the impact zone the following day after a semi truck slammed into a cut of cars in north west Portland. Sadly, the driver lost his life but fortunately the c... (more)

This mangled mess is all that is left of a semitrailer truck that crashed into a cut of tanks cars carrying oil used for making asphalt. The accident killed the truck driver and sent plumes of bl... (more)

Another very wet Saturday has found former Rock Island CRIP 3001 leading a Portland and Western train across the Lake Oswego Railroad Bridge, which was completed in 1907. The bridge is owned by U... (more)

Portland & Western's nocturnal Harbor Turn (featured in an article in Railfan & Railroad earlier this year) ferries logs and lumber products from the lower Willamette Valley to a reload facility a... (more)

The Portland and Western Vancouver turn leaves the BNSF yard with the former ATSF 3610 leading.

The sun sets on the Portland & Western Vancouver to Albany mixed freight.

A Portland Western transfer leaves Albina Yard. The lead unit is a former Cotton Belt SD45 (SSW 9153), that eventually went on to the SP rebuild program before becoming under ownership of Genese a... (more)

The heritage of Portland & Western Railroad GP9 1803 is fairly obvious from the lighting arrangement on the engine's nose. Built by EMD in January 1957 as Southern Pacific GP9 5738, the engine wa... (more)

Portland & Western train 735R, a rock train, has just come out of the quarry in Hopmere, a section of Salem, Oregon, where the train originates, led by GP39-2 2303. Now on the mainline, the train... (more)

Sitting outside the Portland & Western yard office in Eugene are GP39-2s 2304 "Corvallis" and 2302 "Adair Village." Each of these were originally Santa Fe units: 2304 was ATSF... (more)

Portland & Western GP9 1801, which regularly calls Eugene, Oregon, home, was built by EMD in April 1959 as Southern Pacific 5830. In 1965, the SP renumbered it to 3693, and in 1977 the SP's Sacra... (more)

Willamette Crossing

On a bright Tuesday morning, a Portland & Western train passes a blackberry farm on its way along the railroad's Oregon Electric District, as a trio of former Santa Fe GP39-2s leads the train east... (more)

A Portland & Western transfer with a former SP SD45 rebuild leading a train towards the south east.

Flames fully engulf the somewhat famed former Southern Pacific Sherwood Trestle now owned by the Portland Western Railroad. On Aug 10 at around 4pm the bridge caught fire fully engulfing the brid... (more)