Portland Terminal 45

Alco S4 lettered for Portland Terminal 45, sits near the tower at Lake Yard on July 7, 1991.  The unit was already idle by this time as the Portland Terminal used power of its owners, Southern Pacific, Burlington Northern and Union Pacific.

CORP units

When the Central Oregon & Pacific first started running south and west from Eugene, many of it's units were headquarter at Cottage Grove.  That's where I found these GP38-2s, one letter from MNA and one for CORP in the mid 1990s. Both were later renumbered as Rail American went to a system wherein the first two numbers designated either the horsepower or the model.

Woods Railroad

Woods Railroad moves across the former wooden trestle near Kelson.  This section has now been replaced by steel after a portion burned.  Most of these engines are now gone as the Woods Railroad was sold to Pioneer Rail and the new operators purchased their own power. This photo was from 1995-96.

Typical spring rainbow day

It rains, the sun shines and then it rains again.  Tuesday was one of those typical spring days that offer highly contrasting effects such as the sun making a rainbow in the moisture filled atmosphere against the black background of a storm that had just passed the ROOEVE parked at Eighth St. in Vancouver, Wash.

U23B high nose

Rare in the west, even in 1995, this high nose U23B from Norfolk Southern showed up in Albina Yard, Portland, Ore. About 600 units like this were made, starting in 1968, 70 of which belonged the Southern Railroad, which later became the Norfolk Southern.

Richmond, CA switcher

WPSI switched a refinery near the Richmond, CA Santa Fe yard using a SW1500 as shown in this photo from September 1994.

SW1200 at Sims Metals

Sims Metals also had this SW1200, 2285, used for the yard in Richmond in 1994.  The 2285 was one of its Southern Pacific numbers it had been assigned.