For my 600th upload, we're going to back to SLO to watch empty autos snake around the Cuesta Grade. UP 1989 was 2nd out for this run.
A lone GEVO brings up the rear of another westbound grainer.
Cascades 507 rolls into PDX with a very pink Mt. Hood in the back drop.
Recently delivered, UP 96 awaits the next president on Election day 2016.
Former SP 9721 switches a cut of cars on the tracks between Rivergate and Barnes Yard.
A former CB&Q GP30 rebuild sits infront of Dash-9 BNSF 4346 as it gets a traction motor swapped out in Vancouver.
Former BN 7153 has made its way back to the Lake Transfer power. Here it is passing BNSF 973 and NS 9650 in Vancouver, Wa.
A recently reactivated H1 Dash-9 "goat boat" moves round the fuel tracks of Vancouver. Built 8/1996, These are becoming as rare as the ATSF and BN units it intended to replace.
A light power move rolls into Willbridge Yard.
A geometry train kicks up the fallen leafs of the Sati Johns trench.
Fall starts to peak in the Saint Johns trench as The Coast Starlight zooms over the Willamette River.
663 rolls over the million dollar mansions of Lake Oswego with its daily train.
Cascade train 501 runs around Willbridge Yard.
The sun starts to peak out as former SP 9721 rolls down the Kenton Line to switch the Nabisco Cookie factory.
Looking right at home, The former Cheyenne Steam Shop switcher is sitting with its futuristic (though sidelined) genset replacements, awaiting delivery to the Oregon Rail Heritage Center. Built fr... (more)
