The climb over Oregon's Coast Range is over as the Toledo Patch rolls through the hamlet of Summit. From here, the rest of the trip eastward to Albany is almost all downhill.

The Toledo Patch passes the Chitwood covered bridge as it rolls eastward to Albany. Just as in Southern Pacific days, the line primarily serves the massive Georgia Pacific pulp mill at Toledo.

A westbound train approaching Quartz on the Huntington Sub.

A westbound train east of Huntington on the Huntington Sub.

The Santa Maria Valley 205 is about to enter former Southern Pacific trackage in Lebanon, Oregon. It is returning from Waterloo siding on Albany & Eastern's former Oregon Electric line to Foster. ... (more)

The Santa Maria Valley 205 rolls past the site of a former plywood mill on the Albany & Eastern's former Oregon Electric line to Foster. Weldwood was the brand name for the plywood product produce... (more)

A westbound train at Oxman on the Huntington Sub.

A westbound train approaching Telocaset on the Huntington Sub.

P&W in Oregon. Not the perhaps expected Portland & Western, which is also in the Genesee & Wyoming portfolio, but Providence & Worcester 4301 (SD70M-2) sits in Eugene, Oregon on the afterno... (more)

Bridge Through The Trees. After traveling a circuitous route through the mountains surrounding Diamond Peak in Oakridge, Oregon, Webb Rail's former Northern Pacific Railway Budd built Pullm... (more)

The well-known red, orange and black of "Daylight" was the stamp of approval among seasoned travellers in the West on July 10, 1949, when this flashy new streamliner took to the rails of... (more)

A westbound Z train on the Huntington Sub.

Fast forty UP 8059 leads a trio of CNW SD40-2s west on a "Russian" grain train headed to a Pacific Northwest port for export. It would take 18 more years for these long time partners to ... (more)

MP 3165, a non-dynamic brake SD40-2 showed up at Albina Yard, Portland, OR in run-through/mileage equalization. Five years later in 1982 UP would react to the BN-Frisco merger (1980) by merging wi... (more)

A maintenance crew goes to work with UP SD40 no. 3066 assigned to handle a work train based at Meacham, OR on top of the Blue Mountains. UP invested heavily in their track maintenance compared to... (more)