Long since removed from its original fast freight and intermodal duties, yet still on home rails, 1124 leads the LIA43 local solo over the Molalla River bridge into Canby, where after running arou... (more)
Over four hours late, the northbound Coast Starlight glints the sunshine of a late summer evening in Oregon's Willamette Valley.
When the current Oregon Pacific Railroad began operating on the former Molalla Branch of the Southern Pacific, it did so as the Molalla Western Railroad. A few months after the transfer, a trainl... (more)
Using a borrowed Espee "Crud," one of Molalla Western's first trains heads southeast out of Canby, bound for Molalla.
In the last decade Southern Pacific owned the Molalla Branch, daytime movements were very rare. Normally, the branch was worked in the middle of the night by the Oregon City Switcher. After Dick S... (more)
Three Alco PA’s rush SP’s first section of Train 11, “Cascade,” past Canby where it met Extra 5349 in the siding, 25 miles out of Portland, Ore., on April 11, 1964. Tomorrow the train wil... (more)
PNWR 664-18 rounds the curve at Canby in last light. This train typically uses Portland & Western rails on this stretch, but a very late departure necessitated a "straight shot" (they en... (more)
Phase IV heritage 184 and 510 race through Canby in the late afternoon winter sunlight.