willamette

In the low light and damp weather, steam off the Willamette (Rayonier #2) as it sat with some warm bearings at Mineral, WA.

In the low light and damp weather, steam off the Willamette (Rayonier #2) as it sat with some warm bearings at Mineral, WA.

Willamette (Rayonier #2) was sitting out on it's own, right next to the old tender for Chehalis Western # 215.

Several volunteer members of the Willamette Shore Trolley in Lake Oswego, Oreogn perform routine maintenance on one of the turnouts.

Every year on July 4th the Willamette Shore Trolley takes people down to watch the fireworks show on their historic "Broadway" trolley car #813. Here the car sits near the Sellwood Bridge while the passengers watch the show.

A northbound mixed freight crosses the North Fork of the Willamette River at Westfir, Oregon.

P&W's Eugene Hauler is returning from a trip to the small yard in Corvallis to pick up a couple of loaded centerbeam flatcars. The train is headed to Ashahr, where it'll pick up the rest of its train for the trip to Eugene via the UP mainline, where it'll swap crews for a UP crew to...

Members of the Willamette Shore Trolley's track gang getting ready to go hy-railing in Brian's new truck near the Bancroft Street Station at the north end of the line. Left to right are Assistant Roadmaster, Brian Sopke, Alexander Craghead and Josh Delp. Photo by a friend, used by permission.

Portland & Western 3001 shows the wear and tear of the daily grind as it leads yet another Toledo Hauler across the grueling grades ahead. Plenty of horsepower is needed, but nothing with six axles.