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Excellent batch of photos. I remember visiting years ago, before the days of digital cameras, and with the low lighting and flash photography prohibited, pictures inside the museum were almost impossible to get.

There's a pretty good database at http://www.steamlocomotive.info/.

I didn't say it was necessarily a good idea, just a more realistic idea than the big viaduct they'd have to build through town. It would probably be easier to eminent domain property west of town than tear up the downtown area. And, would a mainline curve even fit in the park area where the lines cr...

I'm confused here...why would the Cascades need to stop in Tualatin? I can see Wilsonville but not Tualatin. It really doesn't, but the Passenger Rail Study proposes a stop in Tualatin to replace the current stop in Oregon City if the Cascades moved to Oregon City. I think Wilsonville would make mo...

I went digging and found some information for you on PFE reefers. According to Morning Sun's UP Color Guide to Freight & Passenger Equipment, PFE's received its first mechanical reefers in 1954. A photo is shown of an R-40-30 class car built in 1956, with a length of 45'-6". A 1958-built R-...

There are different kinds of leases and it depends on the lease if the locomotive is repainted into the railroad's paint scheme. Here's how I understand it. I welcome corrections. First, there is the long term lease of new locomotives through a finiancial institution. This is similar to the way you ...

I've never modeled a park train,but I had some thoughts. Oaks Amusement Park in Portland, OR has a Chance CP Huntington. Here's a picture that also shows the Chance cars. I think for the cars I would start with N-scale flat cars and put HO-scale seats/benches on them. There are probably some HO pass...

Actually at that time the Portland section still ran with F40PHs that didn't run through in the combined train, as is usually the case with today's P42. On that particular trip, the Portland section was powered by F40PHs 322 (in Phase III) and 354 (in Florida Fun Train colors!)

First of all, realize that the reason Rio Grande kept running the Rio Grande Zephyr instead of joining Amtrak was that they determined that it would cost them less to run the train themselves than it would to join. They didn't make their final decision until just before Amtrak started, so the number...

USRailFan, here's an Empire Builder consist I rode in summer 1999, almost exactly 10 years ago (don't remember the exact date, but it's very close). Portland cars are below the dashed line. 800 P40 817 P40 1208 Baggage 39038 Transition Sleeper 32027 Sleeper 32002 Sleeper 38006 Diner 34042 Coach 3151...

Even with the explanation that a 14 car Talgo set is about equivalent to a 7 car consist of conventional equipment, I still have questions as to why run the larger trains. I've noticed recently the one Hiawatha set with six cars in the consist. I'm sure that's needed on some runs, but I think what ...

Oregon has filed a pre-application for an ARRA/HSIPR grant of over $2.1 bn, which includes money (~$1.8bn) for 110 mph electrification of the route between Portland and Eugene. The pre-application, however, doesn't clearly state whether it's the OE or UP route that they are planning to upgrade. Any...

This is exciting news. Maybe this will lead some of the other Midwest corridor routes to invest in new faster equipment as well. I wonder if the new Talgos will include food service cars, and if there will be Business Class cars like the Cascades. If they plan to use existing locomotives, I'd expect...

This is sad but not really surprising. I went to college in Milwaukee and our college model railroad club had contact with most of the other model railroad clubs in SE Wisconsin, including the Milwaukee Model Railroad Engineers, and I remember one of the men quoted in the article. MMRE suffered from...

It's too bad that the legacy reailroads like the NYC, PRR, DLW, SP, UP,etc did not come up with this technology sooner. I felt this could've helped to save the railroads. I don't know about the others, but Union Pacific had a shower and barber shop in the 1937 City of Los Angeles and 1938 City of S...