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4/19/2024
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Viewing Album:  Portland Rails
 
By:Robert Powers
Dates:8/1/2016 - 12/31/2018
Album Info:Moved to Portland Oregon in 2016. I've been photographing stuff left and right!
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WPRR 2311 and 2315
Title:  WPRR 2311 and 2315
Description:  Approaching the Steel Bridge to cross the Willamette River
Photo Date:  8/5/2016  Upload Date: 9/24/2016 2:49:45 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  WPRR 2311(GP39-2) WPRR 2315(GP39-2)
Views:  456   Comments: 2
Trains and bikes sharing a bridge
Title:  Trains and bikes sharing a bridge
Description:  This was the moment when I realized that me and Portland were gonna get along juuuuust fine.
Photo Date:  8/5/2016  Upload Date: 9/24/2016 2:49:52 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  WPRR 2315(GP39-2) WPRR 2311(GP39-2)
Views:  395   Comments: 0
Rails across the river
Title:  Rails across the river
Description:  UP 5332 and CP 8852 haul a load toward the Albina yard on Portlands east bank.
Photo Date:  8/7/2016  Upload Date: 9/24/2016 3:11:13 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5332(AC45CCTE) CP 8652(AC44CW)
Views:  332   Comments: 1
WPRR 2312 & co
Title:  WPRR 2312 & co
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/10/2016  Upload Date: 9/24/2016 2:49:39 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  WPRR 2311(GP39-2) WPRR 2312(GP39-2) WPRR 2315(GP39-2)
Views:  463   Comments: 1
Espee caboose
Title:  Espee caboose
Description:  Southern Pacific caboose 4729 is hanging out in Union Pacifics Albina yard north of downtown Portland.
Photo Date:  8/13/2016  Upload Date: 9/5/2016 2:33:18 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  316   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Albina yard
Title:  Union Pacific Albina yard
Description:  From the spectacular Fremont Bridge, taken on the day of the Bridge Pedal event. Hundreds of bicyclists got to hang out and eat breakfast on top of a 300 foot high bridge right over the yard.
Photo Date:  8/14/2016  Upload Date: 9/24/2016 2:45:23 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Scenic,Yard
Locomotives:  UP 5118(SD70M) UP 2657(SD40M-2) UP 4671(SD70M) UP 2853(SD40-2T) UP 1200(GP39-2) UP 1124(GP60) UP 2560(ES44AC-H) UP 606(GP38-2) UP 8230(SD9043MAC) UP 2641(ES44AC) UP 7938(AC45CCTE) UP 8067(SD9043MAC) UP 6780(AC44CW) UP 8952(SD70AH)
Views:  1151   Comments: 3
UP Albina Yard
Title:  UP Albina Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/14/2016  Upload Date: 9/24/2016 2:46:04 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  UP 1124(GP60) UP 1200(GP39-2) UP 2560(ES44AC-H) UP 7794(ES44AC) UP 8403(SD70ACe) UP 5118(SD70M) UP 4671(SD70M) UP 2657(ET44AH) UP 7853(ES44AC) UP 6780(AC44CW)
Views:  769   Comments: 0
WillPortlandP&WWesternE&Pacific!
Title:  WillPortlandP&WWesternE&Pacific!
Description:  The heritage of this former Santa Fe unit is as muddled as its paint job. What I know for sure is that I ran into it and its two fleetmates 4 times in my first month in Portland, without even trying!
Photo Date:  8/15/2016  Upload Date: 9/24/2016 2:50:15 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  WPRR 2311(GP39-2)
Views:  361   Comments: 1
Portland and Western
Title:  Portland and Western
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/15/2016  Upload Date: 9/24/2016 2:42:48 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  WPRR 2312(GP39-2) WPRR 2311(GP39-2) WPRR 2315(GP39-2)
Views:  422   Comments: 1
Portland and Western sunset
Title:  Portland and Western sunset
Description:  My third or fourth run-in with the P&Ws regular freight through town. Union Station in the background.
Photo Date:  8/23/2016  Upload Date: 9/24/2016 3:35:10 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  WPRR 2314(GP39-2) WPRR 2312(GP39-2) WPRR 2315(GP39-2) WPRR 2311(GP39-2)
Views:  572   Comments: 1
Toward the Steel Bridge
Title:  Toward the Steel Bridge
Description:  Portland and Western tacked on a 4th locomotive for this load. Must have been quite a train! The Steel Bridge stands in the background, one of the oldest vertical lift bridges in the country, still operable and in regular use.
Photo Date:  8/23/2016  Upload Date: 9/24/2016 3:37:55 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  WPRR 2311(GP39-2) WPRR 2315(GP39-2) WPRR 2312(GP39-2) WPRR 2314(GP39-2)
Views:  564   Comments: 1
UP southbound
Title:  UP southbound
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/29/2016  Upload Date: 9/24/2016 2:47:10 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6217(AC44CW) UP 5505(AC45CCTE) UP 8989(SD70AH)
Views:  256   Comments: 0
UP 8327
Title:  UP 8327
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/29/2016  Upload Date: 9/24/2016 2:50:08 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 8327(SD70ACe) UP 7910(AC45CCTE) BNSF 6619(ES44C4) UP 5358(AC45CCTE)
Views:  349   Comments: 1
Amtrak on the Steel Bridge
Title:  Amtrak on the Steel Bridge
Description:  Northbound Amtrak about to arrive at Portland Union Station, after crossing the multimodal Steel Bridge.
Photo Date:  9/1/2016  Upload Date: 9/24/2016 3:01:14 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 79(P42DC)
Views:  192   Comments: 0
Onto the Steel Bridge
Title:  Onto the Steel Bridge
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/2/2016  Upload Date: 9/24/2016 3:42:00 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 8688(SD70ACe)
Views:  207   Comments: 0
UP 8688
Title:  UP 8688
Description:  Portland - where you can catch a train at the Steel Bridge, bike ahead of it, and catchit again passing the Fremont Bridge.
Photo Date:  9/2/2016  Upload Date: 9/24/2016 3:43:28 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 8688(SD70ACe) UP 7913(AC45CCTE)
Views:  320   Comments: 1
Amtrak 466 and a BNSF visitor
Title:  Amtrak 466 and a BNSF visitor
Description:  An Amtrak Cascades scheme train sits at Portland's Union Station. The BNSF loco is one of several that I've seen hanging around Union Station lately.
Photo Date:  9/4/2016  Upload Date: 9/24/2016 2:50:01 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7444(ES44DC) AMTK 466(F59PHI)
Views:  237   Comments: 1
Out for the day
Title:  Out for the day
Description:  SP 4449 steams outside her permanent home after an afternoon of excursion runs for the American Freedom Train reunion.
Photo Date:  9/16/2016  Upload Date: 9/24/2016 2:41:29 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4) PRTD 100(SW1) NKP 324(RSD5)
Views:  1337   Comments: 3
OPR 802
Title:  OPR 802
Description:  An unfinished restoration left this old gal sitting rusty and truckless.
Photo Date:  9/22/2016  Upload Date: 9/24/2016 2:48:36 AM
Location:  Milwaukie, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  OPR 802(SW8)
Views:  439   Comments: 0
She Slumbers
Title:  She Slumbers
Description:  SP 4449 rests in her home at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center.
Photo Date:  9/22/2016  Upload Date: 9/24/2016 2:39:18 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Night,Steam
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  333   Comments: 0
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  Holiday Express on a misty, foggy Portland Saturday.
Photo Date:  12/10/2016  Upload Date: 1/22/2017 1:21:57 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  212   Comments: 1
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  Holiday Express on a misty, foggy Portland Saturday.
Photo Date:  12/10/2016  Upload Date: 1/22/2017 1:25:25 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  246   Comments: 1
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  Holiday Express on a misty, foggy Portland Saturday.
Photo Date:  12/10/2016  Upload Date: 1/22/2017 1:30:43 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Winter,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  207   Comments: 0
BNSF 7629
Title:  BNSF 7629
Description:  After a foot of snow paralyzed Portland, Amtrak seems to have needed some leased help to keep trains moving.
Photo Date:  1/12/2017  Upload Date: 2/16/2017 12:48:34 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Night
Locomotives:  BNSF 7629(ES44DC)
Views:  151   Comments: 0
AMTK 158
Title:  AMTK 158
Description:  Amtrak #158 crossed the Steel Bridge, ran south on the wye, then backed north to turn around. Now she's heading back onto the Steel Bridge to pick up a northbound train at Union Station.
Photo Date:  2/11/2017  Upload Date: 2/16/2017 12:44:00 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 158(P42DC)
Views:  182   Comments: 0
Trio of elephants
Title:  Trio of elephants
Description:  At Union Station, from the Broadway Bridge.
Photo Date:  2/11/2017  Upload Date: 2/16/2017 12:37:37 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 158(P42DC) AMTK 117(P42DC) AMTK 167(P42DC)
Views:  193   Comments: 1
AMTK 167
Title:  AMTK 167
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/11/2017  Upload Date: 2/16/2017 12:40:56 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 167(P42DC) AMTK 158(P42DC)
Views:  163   Comments: 0
AMTK 117
Title:  AMTK 117
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/11/2017  Upload Date: 2/16/2017 12:39:31 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 117(P42DC) AMTK 167(P42DC)
Views:  181   Comments: 0
UP 5546
Title:  UP 5546
Description:  Trio heading south with a solid consist of hopper cars. Lots of Soo Line and Canadian National in the mix.
Photo Date:  2/18/2017  Upload Date: 2/18/2017 10:44:54 PM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5546(AC45CCTE) CP 8852(ES44AC) UP 5554(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  356   Comments: 1
Espee family reunion
Title:  Espee family reunion
Description:  A patched SP unit sits near an unrepainted SP caboose in UPs Albina yard.
Photo Date:  2/18/2017  Upload Date: 2/18/2017 10:43:48 PM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  UP 6318(AC44CW)
Views:  304   Comments: 1
Patched Espee unit
Title:  Patched Espee unit
Description:  Second time I've caught UP 1124 sitting in the Albina yard.
Photo Date:  2/18/2017  Upload Date: 2/18/2017 10:46:27 PM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  UP 1124(GP60) HLCX 1851(GP38-2)
Views:  583   Comments: 0
Under the Fremont Bridge
Title:  Under the Fremont Bridge
Description:  UP 5025 heads up a mixed freight rolling northward out of downtown Portland.
Photo Date:  3/12/2017  Upload Date: 3/13/2017 12:43:15 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5025(SD70M) UP 8734(SD70ACe)
Views:  226   Comments: 1
Mountains and Motive Power
Title:  Mountains and Motive Power
Description:  Mount Hood showed its face over Portland today for the first time in months. BNSF Portland Intermodal Facility.
Photo Date:  3/12/2017  Upload Date: 3/13/2017 12:58:03 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Scenic,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6979(ES44C4) UP 5389(AC45CCTE) UP 4605(SD70M) UP 4989(SD70M) UP 9033(SD70AH)
Views:  493   Comments: 0
Shrink wrapped passenger cars
Title:  Shrink wrapped passenger cars
Description:  What the heck? Seen rolling into Portland from the south, April 2, on the tail end of a Union Pacific mixed freight.
Photo Date:  4/2/2017  Upload Date: 6/19/2017 2:14:35 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  851   Comments: 1
Train and Bridge
Title:  Train and Bridge
Description:  Amtrak heading north past the Fremont Bridge.
Photo Date:  4/15/2017  Upload Date: 4/16/2017 12:14:28 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 465(F59PHI)
Views:  218   Comments: 0
Seahawks control cab
Title:  Seahawks control cab
Description:  Rolling past the Fremont
Photo Date:  4/15/2017  Upload Date: 4/16/2017 12:15:13 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 90250(NPCU)
Views:  186   Comments: 0
Van Halen locomotive
Title:  Van Halen locomotive
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/15/2017  Upload Date: 4/16/2017 12:16:29 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5150(SD70M)
Views:  159   Comments: 0
Switching and Shuffling
Title:  Switching and Shuffling
Description:  Guilds Lake Yard
Photo Date:  4/15/2017  Upload Date: 4/16/2017 12:18:05 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  UP 1201(GP39-2) UP 1935(GP60)
Views:  343   Comments: 0
UP 5920 and 4882
Title:  UP 5920 and 4882
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/15/2017  Upload Date: 4/16/2017 12:18:42 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  UP 5920(AC44CWCTE) UP 4882(SD70M)
Views:  137   Comments: 0
Switching in the cut
Title:  Switching in the cut
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/15/2017  Upload Date: 4/16/2017 12:19:52 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PNWR 3051(SD40-3)
Views:  218   Comments: 1
Crossing the river
Title:  Crossing the river
Description:  Just off the big vertical lift bridge, heading east. In the background, the St. Johns Bridge.
Photo Date:  4/15/2017  Upload Date: 4/16/2017 12:20:28 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5920(AC44CWCTE) UP 4882(SD70M)
Views:  133   Comments: 0
Waiting by the highway
Title:  Waiting by the highway
Description:  UP 7920 & co. wait alongside I-84 for clearance to head through the wye junction and southward.
Photo Date:  4/15/2017  Upload Date: 4/16/2017 12:21:17 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7920(AC45CCTE) UP 5208(SD70M) UP 4298(SD70M)
Views:  254   Comments: 0
UP 7920
Title:  UP 7920
Description:  UP 7920 heads a container train rolling south through Portland's Southeast side.
Photo Date:  4/15/2017  Upload Date: 4/16/2017 12:21:54 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7920(AC45CCTE)
Views:  195   Comments: 0
Distributed power
Title:  Distributed power
Description:  UP 5310 is pushinga the end a long stacked container train, southbound.
Photo Date:  4/15/2017  Upload Date: 4/16/2017 12:22:30 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5310(AC45CCTE)
Views:  137   Comments: 0
UP 5310
Title:  UP 5310
Description:  Pushing on a southbound container train. In the background, rolling stock belonging to the Oregon Rail Heritage Center.
Photo Date:  4/15/2017  Upload Date: 4/16/2017 12:23:03 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5310(AC45CCTE)
Views:  156   Comments: 0
Light, angle, everything!
Title:  Light, angle, everything!
Description:  Nothing special to see, but with the sun falling so perfectly on Amtrak #467, I couldn't resist.
Photo Date:  6/24/2017  Upload Date: 6/25/2017 2:49:08 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 467(F59PHI)
Views:  543   Comments: 0
Matched set
Title:  Matched set
Description:  I've been seeing this beautifully symetrical set, with its interestingly faded SF heritage schemes, running back and forth through Portland for a couple of weeks now. This is the first time I've managed to catch it with my camera though.
Photo Date:  6/24/2017  Upload Date: 6/25/2017 2:48:31 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PNWR 2314(GP39-2) PNWR 2312(GP39-2) PNWR 2306(GP39-2) PNWR 2307(GP39-2)
Views:  311   Comments: 1
Can't resist that exhaust heat shimmer
Title:  Can't resist that exhaust heat shimmer
Description:  A quartest of PNWR GP39s heads into Portland while railfans of all stripes wait for SP 4449 to return from its wye turnaround at the north end of the city.
Photo Date:  6/24/2017  Upload Date: 6/25/2017 2:46:19 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PNWR 2306(GP39-2) PNWR 2307(GP39-2) PNWR 2312(GP39-2) PNWR 2314(GP39-2)
Views:  228   Comments: 0
Early morning steam
Title:  Early morning steam
Description:  It's 5:30a, and SP 4449 is ready to roll 200 miles to Bend, Oregon. Delays of some sort would push departure back from 8am to after 10am.
Photo Date:  6/24/2017  Upload Date: 6/25/2017 2:50:48 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4) AMTK 139(P42DC)
Views:  241   Comments: 1
Lone Locomotive
Title:  Lone Locomotive
Description:  A Portland & Western engine, number unknown, rolls long hood first across the BN 5.1 bridge in North Portland.
Photo Date:  6/24/2017  Upload Date: 6/25/2017 2:50:33 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  126   Comments: 1

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