Southern Pacific's hot PTLAT climbs Sanders Hill near Dorris, California. The grade above the power was part of a shoofly used while adjacent Tunnel 17 was completed. You can see the rear of thi... (more)
The SP Clack Switcher is crossing Kellogg Lake in the Portland suburb of Milwaukie. At the time, this trackage was part of SP's Tillamook Branch. The train was returning to Brooklyn Yard after pi... (more)
After an overnight trip from Portland, the brand new Swift RoadRailer train closes in on Mount Shasta.
On a sunny fall afternoon, SP trains meet in the Oregon Cascades.
An ex-Great Northern unit is on BN's Sweet Home Logger, switching the mill at Foster. This is the end of the former Oregon Electric branch from Albany.
The morning fog has just burned off as the Sweet Home Logger heads east on the former Southern Pacific Mill City Branch. The abandoned bridge in the foreground was once part of SP's branch from W... (more)
An NRHS excursion bound for Bend crosses Dunning Road near Oakridge, Oregon on Southern Pacific. At Chemult, the train will switch to Burlington Northern.
On a fourth of July excursion between Mt. Shasta and McCloud, the MR 18 paused at Big Canyon for a couple of minutes. The conductor, who has been a friend for a long time, graciously let me bail ... (more)
The Coast Starlight makes its station stop at Klamath Falls. After a crew change, the train will depart for its scenic crossing of the Oregon Cascades.
An eastbound hotshot departs Portola. In just a few miles, the pines will give way to the sagebrush of the Great Basin deserts.
Two Kodachrome SDs lead an eastbound Siskiyou train through the Rogue Valley.
A westbound Siskiyou Line train splits the semaphores near MP 600. When SP was remanufacturing its SD45T-2s, their final set up occurred in Eugene. They wouild make a trip or two down the Siskiyo... (more)
Near Cruzatte in the Oregon Cascades, a westbound train climbs the grade in Fall 1987. Snow will begin falling soon.
On a clear fall day, a westbound highballs Heather siding in the Oregon Cascades.
A westbound train is climbing through the Oregon Cascades during Southern Pacific's last full month of independence.
