On a hot spring day, LLW 5399 in all of it's SP glory rolls a small train of empties to the Weyerhaeuser Lumber corp. The locomotive had just received a new traction motor and is out earning reven... (more)
Also on the last day of 2015, an Albany eastern transfer from the Portland Western leaves the yard, heading back to Lebanon. The glare of the yard switcher, a former SP SD7, oscillates as a dry fr... (more)
Albany & Eastern GP38-3 2002, seen in the railroad's yard in Lebanon, Oregon, was built by EMD in February 1970 as Illinois Central GP38AC 9511. When the IC and Gulf Mobile & Ohio merged it becam... (more)
Albany Eastern 1841.
Albany Eastern's new GE-8 works a train of woodchip cars near Sweethome.
Ex-SP 4364 southbound on the Sweet Home Branch.
Returning on the Sweet Home Branch.
Pulling a string of cars of dimensional lumber from the Weyerhaeuser Co. Santiam Sawmill.
A pair of Rick Franklin Corporation B23-7's power an Albany and Eastern Railroad job at Portland & Western's Yard, as a job from the home road switches off to the right with a SD7R for power. Wor... (more)
Ex-SP 4364 with special move of a transformer.
The "Albany Hauler" approaches with RFRX 4202 and 4201 (Rick Franklin Corporation B23-7s) and a typical size train of logs, wood chips, lumber, and covered hoppers. The hills in the background are... (more)
Special move of a transformer to a substation near Lyons, OR.
RFRX is the Rick Franklin Corporation of Albany, OR. The fellow on the ATV is probably the U-man, i.e., utility man.
The first time I have seen a train on this bridge and it was a winner! 5399 is painted in Black Widow colors and is ex-SP 4364.
