A stand of trees cover the tracks in shadows, but the nose of the SD45 crosses a beam of sunlight that has found its way on to the tracks as the Harbor turn heads to Banks.
The ZLCBR is descending down out of the Cascades on its way to Portland with the hottest train on the line. The daylight colors of UP 1996 distinctively stand out against the spring time green of... (more)
A rather rare leader for the Northwest leads a Centralia Steam Plant bound coal train through the Columbia Gorge under the first light of the day.
A BNSF grain train races west into the fading light of the day through the rock tunnel at Drano Lake.
An ex-SP GP9 heads through the streets of Harrisburg on the ex-BN/SP&S OE line. The American Turn is heading back to Eugene after switching out the mill at America.
Three sets of helpers descend down the cascades over the Salt Creek Trestle, back to Oakridge where they will separate and wait to assist heavily southbound manifests. Note UP 2001 in the middle o... (more)
An empty Canpotex potash train heads through the Wallula Gap back to Canada after unloading at Terminal 5 in Portland, OR.
A pair of striped SD40-2s lead a ballast train east on the Fallbridge sub just as this train might have been powered 20 or even 30 years ago.
An Amtrak Cascades substitution train races through an early morning fog in North Portland.
A sight once common in Western Oregon; a bloody nose emerging out of a cut of trees (though this GP38-2 has obvious lineage to CSX). This "last" Coos Bay hauler heads towards Mapleton, then on to... (more)
