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5/19/2024
 
 
 
 
 
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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:  235   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:  317   Comments: 1
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:  551   Comments: 0
Just missed that big plume of smoke
Title:  Just missed that big plume of smoke
Description:  My camera's been cranky lately. Never know when the autofocus is just gonna freak out and go totally out of focus or just lock onto the wrong thing. So the shot right before this -- a lost cause, alas.
Photo Date:  6/24/2017  Upload Date: 6/25/2017 2:49:22 AM
Location:  Maupin, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  73   Comments: 0
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  In the Deschutes Canyon
Photo Date:  6/24/2017  Upload Date: 6/25/2017 2:49:56 AM
Location:  Maupin, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  106   Comments: 0
Into the North Portland cut
Title:  Into the North Portland cut
Description:  The Daylight has just crossed Burlington Northern Bridge 5.1 and is headed west and north towards Vancouver, WA.
Photo Date:  6/24/2017  Upload Date: 6/25/2017 2:50:12 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4) AMTK 93(P42DC)
Views:  113   Comments: 0
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:  129   Comments: 1
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:  246   Comments: 1


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