The only SP caboose painted for the SPSF merger pauses on a summer evening in 1988 at Klamath Falls, Oregon.

The northbound Coast Starlight passes the junction with the Siskiyou Line on a perfect spring morning.

The North Coast Daylight tiptoes along the Eel River as it nears the Scotia Bluffs. Once past this slide-prone area, the train will deliver its passengers to Eureka for two nights and a day on Cal... (more)

Four hours late, the Portland section of the Empire Builder exits a stretch of two main tracks at Washougal, Washington. The next stop for train 27 is at Vancouver, roughly 20 minutes to the west.

In October 1987, a pair of slug sets normally found on Southern Pacific's Toledo Hauler are working as helpers in the Cascades. They display the result of ongoing operation in this service as they... (more)

BNSF's Columbia Gorge Local rolls eastward through Skamania, Washington on the Fallbridge Subdivision.

After Southern Pacific mothballed Siskiyou Summit, traffic off the Siskiyou Line had to go north to Eugene to go south into California. A westbound train with rerouted traffic from the Rogue Vall... (more)

A westbound Southern Pacific lumber drag crosses Salt Creek in the Cascade Range of Oregon. During winter, the trestle marks the spot on Oregon Highway 58 where motorists chain up for the crossing... (more)

A unit train rolls through the Columbia River Gorge.

An eastbound Z train rolls through the massive Georgia Pacific pulp mill at Camas, Washington.

Amtrak Cascades train 500 roars across the floor of the Willamette Valley at Hito. Next stop: Oregon City.

Less than ten blocks from the mainline, an extra West Stayton Local heads east through Southeast Salem on the Geer Branch. The track would be leased to the new Willamette Valley Railway at the end... (more)

Not quite 117 miles into its 310 mile trip to Seattle, Cascades train 508 is already an hour and fifteen minutes behind schedule. Small wonder that railfans in the Puget Sound area call this train... (more)

With a Siemens Charger shoving on the rear, Amtrak Cascades train 503 rolls southward.

A little over seven hours late, the Empire Builder's Portland section has just emerged from the Columbia River Gorge at Washougal, Washington. The next station stop for train 27 will be Vancouver,... (more)