BN 663 - July 1994

BN train 663, Vancouver, WA to Albany, OR at Willbridge Junction, Oregon - July 1994

Canadian packaged lumber.

Linnton, Oregon (still in Portland city limits) past the plywood factory. St. Johns bridge in the background.

The train has diverged from the Astoria Line at United Jct. , has crossed under US 30, and quickly begins the climb up the Cornelius Pass grade.

Bowers Jct., Oregon, well outside the Urban Growth Boundary, otherwise, even back in 1994, this would have been solid subdivisions.

What a great sight! Five B-B units in four motor paradise.
The ridge of the Tualatin Mountains extends across the background.

Curving around to the south towards Orenco.

Cement for a growing Willamette Valley

Tracks in the foreground are the line to Banks, and interchange with the POTB.

Caboose passes a cut of loads off the line to Banks.

The Burlington Northern! The name almost seems quaint these days. I would say that after editing these pictures for this blog post, that the railroad shown here had a lot more to do with SP&S days, than the BNSF  today has to do with the BN. Today, there is still a Vancouver-Albany train, but it is run by the Portland Western, and is routed mostly along the UP former SP Brooklyn Sub. main. Several years after these photos were taken, this train was routed off of Cornelius Pass, and the right of way from Orenco to Beaverton was converted to use for TriMet's Hillsboro Max Line.