The inaugural 2019 Holiday Train steams past the Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge in southeast Portland.

A rare daylight appearance of the "Harbor Turn". The train died here last night and is now completing their run to Tigard, OR.

A rare daylight appearance of the "Harbor Turn" carries empty log cars back to reload from the Albany & Eastern and fresh cut lumber from Banks, OR.

The 2nd warbonnet i've seen this month! This time it's breaking up a train that the pair just brought down from Seattle or Tacoma at The Port of Portland, T6 Yard.

Warbonnet 704 is missing half the cigar brand logo. It's bring up a military train with a load of strykers.

A beat up GE leads an eastbound stack train with fall foliage in full force.

No longer in red & silver, these former ATSF motors lead a PASVAN with mainly grain hoppers into Vancouver.

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.