Returning to the mill with empties, Smurfit Newsprint Corporation's ex-Rock Island SW9 rolls through downtown Newberg, Oregon. The job had just switched out the interchange with Willamette & Paci... (more)

At Newberg, Oregon the Smurfit Newsprint Corporation had a railroad that ran a little over a mile from their pulp mill to the Southern Pacific. Most the line ran in the middle of Newberg's Blaine ... (more)

A westbound grain train nears Bingen, Washington in the Columbia River Gorge. The Oakways were fairly rare birds on the old SP&S.

Alaska Railway EMD F7A 1530 prepares to depart the station in Anchorage for the Beautiful run to Fairbanks in June of 1980. The 1530 Is the Former Rio Grande 5654. This unit was wrecked in 197... (more)

Two nice looking engines right out of the paint shop.

An Amtrak Cascades trainset sits in Portland’s Union Station between runs, having recently arrived as train 517 from Vancouver, British Columbia – 187 miles to the north. (Vancouver, W... (more)

Looking like an SP local train in the late 1950s, an tourist train on POTB rolls northward in summer 1991.

OPR 801 was a casualty of the great Labor Day 2020 fires that ripped through Oregon. The future is uncertain for this locomotive, but the line didn't loose any of its shippers. OPR 1202 has taken ... (more)

OPR 801 was hit by one of the many fires that ravaged Oregon during the Labor Day weekend.The future is uncertain for this locomotive (hopefully salvageable), but the line didn't loose any of its ... (more)

The daily 663/664 drops down from the Hill as it approaches United Junction.

Burlington Northern SW1500 301 switching at Hillyard June 1970. James C. Herold Photo from my Collection.

The daily 663/664 rolls past the Oregon Rail Heritage Center and local residents of Portland.

A thick haze from the devastating Oregon wildfires envelops Washington County. Portland & Western's daily 663/664 is taking Cornelius Pass today with extra power to drop at Linnton.

This may look like Southern Pacific 70-ton 5100, and it was in fact Southern Pacific 70-ton 5100 when built by General Electric in April 1949 (and until 12/22/76), but it is actually Oregon Pacifi... (more)

One of Amtrak’s Amtrak Cascades trains, number 508 heading from Oregon’s Eugene/Springfield to Seattle, Washington, passes the BNSF Railway’s Vancouver Yard after departing the statio... (more)