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Ready to depart Duckville. Nice.

The southbound Coast Starlight is over ten hours late after a detour over the Oregon Trunk at Gibson, California. A tunnel fire in Oregon's Cascades necessitated the reroute. The UP locomotive on the point was added at Portland due to the cab signal system in the Columbia River Gorge. Next...

Interesting - ATSF train 18 would be the combined El Capitan/Super Chief. Although this train has two big warbonnet FP45s, the three coaches directly behind the power are odd. You have to wonder if this section of the train was a special move, such as bringing Boy Scouts back from New Mexico.

A westbound lumber drag grinds through Steinman, Oregon on the climb to Siskiyou Summit. October 5, 1986

A Phoenix-bound Z train rolls past the American Orient Express at Williams, Arizona. September 20, 1996

A Willamette Valley Railway train rolls away from the Union Pacific interchange in Woodburn, Oregon during February 1997.

The SD45-2T now preserved at the California State Railroad Museum rolls toward Oregon on the Siskiyou Line. June 19, 1990.

Excellent! Much better to get this shot in the fall, when the summer heat waves don't kill you.

A train on the East Portland Traction Company rolls past the former Union Pacific 4-6-2 on display at Oaks Park in Portland. The steamer is now at the ORHF Enginehouse.

An Amtrak special for AAPRCO changes crews at BN South Klamath Yard in Klamath Falls, Oregon.

Enjoy your shots Last August, we stayed three nights on the 9th floor of the Emeryville Hyatt House. I sure liked the show on the Capitol Corridor. Nice photos!

Former Southern Pacific business cars Sunset and Stanford trail Amtrak's Coast Starlight, wearing new yellow paint for Union Pacific.

Passengers await departure time for Amtrak's Pioneer, when UP's Salt Lake City station was still a railroad station.

On a frigid afternoon, the northbound Napa Valley trash train blows some snow.

The Mount Emily Shay crosses US 26 with a photo freight.