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)
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)