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  Portland & Western GP39-2 #2307 leads sister #2303 and GP40s #3004 and #3006 en route to Albany, Ore. May 30, 2008. The lashup is passing the Oregon Pacific RR connection in southeast Portland along UP's former SP main line between Portland and Eugene.
 

The 2307 wears the orange and black colors of corporate owner Genesee & Wyoming; the 2303 remains in the blue and yellow of original owner Santa Fe; and both GP40s wear the yellow and black of St. Lawrence & Atlantic, another regional railroad now in the G&W fold.

The P&W inherited this Vancouver, Wash.-Albany manifest as part of its lease of the former BN (Oregon Electric) line south of Salem. It is using UP trackage rights from Portland to Salem, where it will enter its own line.

The regional continues a long-standing BN practice of using only four-axle power on this run due to lighter rail on the old OE. This day's train had 105 cars of mixed freight.

 

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  All Aboard!!! Highball with the Rose City & NorthWestern Railroad, where you'll find interesting and intriguing information on railroading and transit operations in and around Portland, Oregon, other locations in the Pacific Northwest, and occasional glimpses of railroading and transit elsewhere in the U.S. and Canada. Your comfortable seat also allows you to enjoy a wide range of links to other rail-related Web destinations.

Along the right-of-way, you'll enjoy colorful views of the Rose City's regular trains, from TriMet to TALGOs, as well as notable visitors such as Union Pacific's DDA40X "Centennial" diesel and Friends of 261's former MILW "Skytop" parlor observation Cedar Rapids.

 

  CSX C40-8W #7827 is a long way from its regular haunts in the eastern U.S. as it leads a BNSF manifest north through Centralia, Wash. May 24, 2008. The big GE leads CSX C40-8 #7632 and a BNSF SD40-2 along the BNSF Seattle Sub on its way to Interbay Yard in Seattle.
 

The Seattle Sub also hosts Union Pacific freights between Vancouver and Tacoma, Wash; five daily Amtrak round trips; and six weekday Sound Transit Sounder commuter round trips between Tacoma and Seattle.

The diverse motive power seen along the route includes most types of BNSF and UP power, as well as visiting locomotives from other Class 1 and regional railroads around the U.S. and Canada.

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  Your computer is all the motive power you'll need to visit these destinations along the RC&NW main line:
  • The Photo Line (View photographs and get free photo downloads)
  • The Switch Yard (Link to other railroad-related Internet sites)
  • RC&NW On The Road (Follow the Website Trainmaster around the Pacific Northwest and the U.S.)
  • The Trivia Track (Enjoy the interesting and intriguing history of railroading)
  • The Railfan Guide (Visit rail and transit sites throughout metropolitan Portland, including webcams with rail and transit views)
  • Inside The Roundhouse (View and download train graphics created from the Webmaster's photo archive)

 

 

Cabooses from two Pennsylvania "fallen flags" share track space Feb. 5, 2006 on the Wanamaker, Kempton & Southern tourist line at Kempton, Pa. The WK&S uses a surviving portion of the former Reading Schuylkill & Lehigh Branch northwest of Allentown.

 

The Reading caboose on the left wears the company's pre-1960s red colors, while the unique four-wheel "bobber" on the right is a former Lehigh & New England car.

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Here's what's on the timetable at the Rose City & Northwestern...

The Big Shot features two brand-new Westside Express Service (WES) DMUs at Wilsonville, Ore.

The Round House includes a new page featuring train .gifs provided by other railfan artists.

The Railfan Guide now includes a list of webcams around the Portland metro area that show passing rail and transit operations, as well as several Washington railcam locations.

RC&NW On The Road takes you to rail museums in Baltimore, Md., Strasburg, Pa. and Sacramento, Calif., as well as other places where you can find preserved railroad equipment.

The Trivia Track has a new set of posers to challenge your knowledge of all things railroad.

 

 

Three Sound Transit Sounder trainsets are laying over at the yard in Tacoma, Wash. Aug. 25, 2007. This location is just east of Freighthouse Square, the current terminus for the agency's Seattle-Tacoma service. The track to the right is Tacoma Rail's Mountain Division, the former MILW line to Centralia.

 

Sound Transit's Puget Sound regional commuter rail currently includes two routes. Eight Seattle-Tacoma round trips cover the BNSF Seattle Sub, including two "reverse commute" trains that run south in the morning and north in the afternoon. There are four round trips on the BNSF Scenic Sub between Seattle and Everett.

Sound Transit plans to extend its Tacoma service south to Lakewood in 2010. The largest part of the extension is a new connection between the Tacoma Rail Mountain Division and the former BNSF (NP) Nisqually line.

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