In October 1995, Southern Pacific 4449 spent a week on Portland & Western doing public relations work. On the last day that the steamer operated, the late David Goodheart set up this photo op in ... (more)
An eastbound train of empties negotiates the vertical curve in the "Parachute" east of Olene. This is a hiking trail today.
Because a train is stalled ahead due to a UDE, the hotshot LABRF's path to the next crew change at Klamath Falls is blocked. While the train waits it out, the conductor is going to the Mt Hebron ... (more)
The Redding Turn switches out some cars at its namesake on a winter afternoon.
An eastbound train of lumber empties is rolling along the Black Butte Subdivision. The orange plating over the class light receptacles was something I never saw on any other SP locomotive.
Thanks to some mechanical ailment, the tunnel motor leading this westbound lumber drag is putting out a plume of smoke worthy of a steam locomotive. There was once a siding here named Jerome.
The peace of a summer evening is shattered by an eastbound drag of lumber empties on the Shasta Route. This train has completed the climb out of the Sacramento River Canyon and is now closing in ... (more)
An eastbound drag on the Siskiyou Line passes the wig-wag at Yoncalla, while a local resident waits for the train to clear the crossing.
Rounding the big curve just north of the state line, the Staley Turn heads for the beet loader at Stronghold, California on the Modoc Line.
Just after sunrise, the Olympic Torch Relay train arrives at Klamath Falls. Local Olympic decathlon champion Dan O'Brien was featured in the ceremonies at the depot.
On a fine fall morning, a drag of lumber empties heads west on the Modoc Line. The train is descending the grade between Sage Hen and Likely.
A westbound train on the Siskiyou Line is about to pass under I-5. The lead unit had just been remanufactured by Morrison Knudsen.
On a hot summer afternoon, an APL stack train circles itself at Williams Loop.
A local on the Siskiyou Line splits a set of semaphores in late summer 1989.
While the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad is known for its steam locomotive operations, it also has Oregon's only operating F unit. The former Great Northern 274 reposes outside of OCSR's enginehous... (more)
