Citizens of Lakeview, Oregon celebrate Lake County's purchase of the SP branch line to Alturas. When the depot was constructed by the Nevada-California-Oregon, the rails in front of it were only t... (more)

The Quincy Railroad forwards empty log flats to the UP interchange at Wendel. The cars were used to haul fire salvage logs from Arizona to Sierra Pacific's sawmill at Susanville.

A northbound freight train is just out of Willits on a Saturday morning. It has been a little over a year since February 1986 storms hammered the railroad. That storm started a decline that eventu... (more)

Late on a summer morning, BN's Albany to Pasco manifest crosses the magnificent timber trestle near Helvetia. This bridge is part of the the former United Railways line over Cornelius Pass. Lead u... (more)

It has been a year since BNSF was formed, but change has yet to come to the former Oregon Electric. On a hot summer day, BNSF's Albany to Eugene road freight rolls down 4th Street in Harrisburg.

Central Oregon & Pacific's Weed Switcher returns from the UP interchange at Black Butte on CORP's Siskiyou Line.

One of the greatest rare mileage excursions Amtrak ever ran was the Parker Peavine Extra. In three days it traveled from LA to Flagstaff on the Transcon, Flagstaff to Phoenix on the Peavine via As... (more)

An excursion train from Tillamook has just arrived at Banks, after a trip over the Oregon Coast Range. The local boys have come down to check out the train, and the engineer's daughter has come ou... (more)

In the mid-1990s, some of the best railfanning in the state of Oregon happened Tuesday and Thursday mornings. That was when Willamette & Pacific's Corvallis Local went to the steam powered sawmill... (more)

A train of Arizona fire salvage logs departs Wendel for Susanville. This was our chase on the day before Winterail 2003.

Another big train of lumber empties heads for the Rogue Valley. In just a few days, the Northern Spotted Owl will be listed as an endangered species. Logging reductions related to the action will ... (more)

The 1987 Siskiyou Line helper consist of the year heads west through the Shasta Valley near Gazelle. This train had an ex-BN Helm Leasing SD45, and four SP T-2s - two grey and two Kodachrome. The ... (more)

In June 1999, Oregon DOT sent a Cascades Talgo set to Medford as a promotion for thruway bus service. Aside from a rare mileage excursion in 1996, it was the first public passenger train on the Si... (more)

On Thanksgiving morning, the SP's Staley Turn departs to switch sugar beet loaders on the Modoc Line.

The last eastbound Pioneer rolls along the Columbia River. Someone in Seattle applied the "nose art" prior to departure that morning.