The 1916-vintage Baldwin is shown July 30, 2005 after completing its last run of the day. Today's train includes an open-air car and a former Union Pacific streamlined heavyweight coach.

The CCRA depot and shop are easily accessible and visible from Interstate 5 on the west side of Chehalis. The city, about 80 miles north of Portland, Ore., was the south end of MILW operations in Washington. A daily MILW freight run to Portland used NP, then later BN trackage rights south of there.

Welcome to the Observation Platform! One of the most satisfying experiences in our pursuit of trains is bagging that elusive cab unit, classic steam locomotive, or other unique piece of rolling stock.

However, the U.S. is a big place. I can visit the Brooklyn Roundhouse any time, but I can't just walk to Fullerton, Calif. or Soldier Summit, Utah. Thanks to this feature, we can all take a trip out and about to an otherwise distant railfan site.

Meanwhile, you can also surf in for Big Shots, our feature highlighting different trains and transit operations, each presented in an 800x600-pixel format.

FREE STUFF!!! Those of you who collect railroad and transit photographs (and those of you you who may want to start after seeing the ones on this site) can download any photograph from my collection free. It offers a wide variety of images from around the U.S. and the world, from historic steam locomotives to state-of-the-art TALGOs.

Due to server space limitations, I must limit the number of photos available at any time, but I will change categories and add new photographs periodically. I have a collection of several thousand photos, so please bear with me. All that I ask from you is this: if you use one of these photographs in a website or make a hard copy of it, please credit me for it (Photograph by Thomas M. McCann) or credit the person who was kind enough to provide the photo.