Portland & Western's nocturnal Harbor Turn (featured in an article in Railfan & Railroad earlier this year) ferries logs and lumber products from the lower Willamette Valley to a reload facility a... (more)

heading north out of the Albany OE Yard the cowl jumps from cloud bank to cloud bank. This is the former BNSF 6976, which was paired with NS 3329 for the big Maeresk Sea Land celebration a few ye... (more)

Almost to Albany!

Moments after I got this shot, the air dumped and the train blocked the northern 3/4 of Front Street for about 30 minutes while the conductor walked the train and I played taxi service.

The southbound run of the OE Express passes under the old SP, now P&W's Westside District, Tualatin River bridge. The blue cards in the 3606/3604 say they are SD45-2's.