Having just crossed the Steel Bridge over the Willamette River (slightly visible through the tree above the train), a southbound Metropolitan Area Express (TriMet) Yellow Line train (Expo Center t... (more)

The Toledo Hauler heads east

KCS power has become very common on grain and potash trains following the KCS-CP merger. The variety of these "Southern Belle" units adds a bright and colorful touch to the typical drear... (more)

A Coos Bay Rail Link train, with 79 cars, arrives at the mill in Noti, 20 miles west of Eugene. This eastbound is powered by GP38s 3877 and 3876 (formerly Southern Railway 2813 and 2796) and GP38... (more)

Back in 1978 Morrison-Knudsen rebuilt four GE U25B's with Sulzer prime movers. They gave it a nice flashy daylight type paint scheme never to be repeated. The horsepower was uprated to 2800 and th... (more)

Here is A blast from the past. Southern Pacific No. 4449 with a special excursion from Portland to Bend Oregon rolling through Moody in the Deschutes Canyon.

A Westbound Canadian Pacific Grain train is being pushed by Canadian Pacific SD9043MAC No. 7001 through the Deschutes River State Park along Hwy 30

Eastbound Union Pacific AC4400CW no. 5953 and its string of containers rolls by Deschutes River State Park. The Deschutes is famous for its Salmon and Steelhead fishing. Along with its nice camp... (more)

High on a ridge after crossing the Columbia River from Wishram WA. on the Celilo Bridge, a southbound BNSF Mixed Manifest will soon be snaking through the Deschutes River Canyon. ... (more)

The southbound Coast Starlight arrives in Albany

Albany & Eastern Railroad B23-7 4201, sitting in the AERC's facility in Lebanon, was built by General Electric in April 1978 for Conrail (CR 1904). It was later sold to Metro-North (MNCW 1904, la... (more)

Westbound Canadian Pacific AC44OOCW no. 8610 Rolls a Grain Train down the Oregon side of the Columbia River and crosses over Deschutes River enroute to Portland Or

An eastbound BNSF Manifest heads through the Columbia River Gorge on the Washington side, as viewed from Thunder Island on the Oregon side

From Down Under to Oregon. Sydney, Australia O-Class car 1187 (Meadowbank Manufacturing Company, 1912) came to the Oregon Electric Railway Museum in 1959. On August 31, 2008, it was the ope... (more)

Power shuffles out of the Albina Mechanical shop. Taken from a top the Fremont Bridge.