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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 wo 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:  746   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:  690   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:  691   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:  809   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:  453   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:  1809   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:  1262   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:  619   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:  778   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:  910   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:  958   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:  548   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:  734   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:  352   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:  443   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:  666   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:  396   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:  1770   Comments: 4
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:  657   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:  460   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:  365   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:  386   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:  363   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:  281   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:  391   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:  331   Comments: 0
Title: 
Description:  AMTK 117
Photo Date:  2/16/2017  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:  341   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:  657   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:  523   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:  916   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:  586   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:  974   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:  1069   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:  743   Comments: 0
Matched set
Title:  Matched set
Description:  I've bden 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 wkth 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:  614   Comments: 1
Cao't resist that exhaust heat shimmer
Title:  Cao'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:  496   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 sorv 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:  406   Comments: 1
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:  Track
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4) AMTK 93(P42DC)
Views:  278   Comments: 0
Just missed that big plume of smmke
Title:  Just missed that big plume of smmke
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:  195   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:  199   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:  6/26/2017  Upload Date: 6/25/2017 2:50:33 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  255   Comments: 1
wAsH mE
Title:  wAsH mE
Description:  This, I suppose, is the dreaded "wedgie" shot. Oh well. I like it, for the downtown background, the heat shimmer, the perspective on the train and the empty track next to it, and of course some comedians finger-written note on the engine nose. UP #8431 and company are heading southbound out of Portland on a sunny July 4th. I rushed to get ahead of the train and cross the tracks to the sunny side... then was stuck there for a good ten minutes as the train crawled along, then stopped, then rolled backwards, before finally proceeding forward again.
Photo Date:  7/4/2017  Upload Date: 7/5/2017 3:08:07 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 8431(SD70ACe) UP 8467(SD70ACe) UP 8171(AC45CCTE) UP 2633(ET44AH)
Views:  644   Comments: 1
Half in, half out
Title:  Half in, half out
Description:  Amtrak 205 is stopped on the crossover after pushing half-way back into Union Station. It sat for 10-plus minutes, holding up traffic on Naito Parkway, before finally rolling east and south out of town.
Photo Date:  7/30/2017  Upload Date: 8/1/2017 2:16:07 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 205(P42DC) AMTK 503(B32-8WH)
Views:  297   Comments: 0
From the Fremont Bridge
Title:  From the Fremont Bridge
Description:  One Sunday morning a year, the Fremont Bridge opens up to thousands of bicyclists. The bridge passes over BNSF trackage to the west, and Union Pacifics vast Albina Yard on the east. Here an Amtrak Cascades train rolls north toward the BN 5.1 bridge in the background, and from there to Seattle.
Photo Date:  8/13/2017  Upload Date: 8/13/2017 4:20:19 PM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 90251(NPCU)
Views:  171   Comments: 0
From the Fremont Bridge
Title:  From the Fremont Bridge
Description:  One Sunday morning a year, the Fremont Bridge opens up to thousands of bicyclists. The bridge passes over BNSF trackage to the west, and Union Pacifics vast Albina Yard on the east.
Photo Date:  8/13/2017  Upload Date: 8/13/2017 4:20:06 PM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7166(ES44C4) BNSF 7113(ES44C4) BNSF 5132(C44-9W)
Views:  293   Comments: 0
From the Fremont Bridge
Title:  From the Fremont Bridge
Description:  One Sunday morning a year, the Fremont Bridge opens up to thousands of bicyclists. The bridge passes over BNSF trackage to the west, and Union Pacifics vast Albina Yard on the east.
Photo Date:  8/13/2017  Upload Date: 8/13/2017 4:19:43 PM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6173(AC44CW) UP 6021(AC44CWCTE) UP 523(GP38-2) UP 1891(SD40N)
Views:  581   Comments: 1
From the Fremont Bridge
Title:  From the Fremont Bridge
Description:  One Sunday morning a year, the Fremont Bridge opens up to thousands of bicyclists. The bridge passes over BNSF trackage to the west, and Union Pacifics vast Albina Yard on the east.
Photo Date:  8/13/2017  Upload Date: 8/13/2017 4:20:35 PM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  132   Comments: 0
Union Pacific on the Willamette
Title:  Union Pacific on the Willamette
Description:  Three locomotives are waiting for the signal alongside the Willamette River, across from downtown Portland.
Photo Date:  10/3/2017  Upload Date: 10/4/2017 12:27:57 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 8733(SD70ACe) UP 2737(ET44AH) UP 8128(ES44AC-H)
Views:  518   Comments: 1
Union Pacific on the Willamette
Title:  Union Pacific on the Willamette
Description:  With a green signal at last, UP #8733 and company can finally start rolling south. In the foreground, the bulk carrier ship Global Effort.
Photo Date:  10/3/2017  Upload Date: 10/4/2017 12:27:48 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 8733(SD70ACe) UP 2737(ET44AH) UP 8128(ES44AC-H)
Views:  490   Comments: 1
Union Pacific on the Willamette
Title:  Union Pacific on the Willamette
Description:  The Tidewater Barge Lines tugboat Maverick hauls a loaded barge under the Broadway Bridge while traffic roars over the Fremont Bridge in the background. Oh, and a train.
Photo Date:  10/3/2017  Upload Date: 10/4/2017 12:27:38 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 8733(SD70ACe) UP 2737(ET44AH) UP 8733(SD70ACe) UP 2737(ET44AH)
Views:  423   Comments: 1

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