running on tracks, there was the Lombard Steam Log Hauler. This wacky steam-locomotive-like contraption used tank-style tracks instead of railroad tracks to get around, freeing it up to go wherever it ...

PORTLAND — Mount Emily Shay No. 1 has a new home. The historic steam logging locomotive, used for logging operations in Union County for three decades through the late 1950s, traveled by BNSF Railroad ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The historic steam logging locomotive Mount Emily Shay #1 traveled by BNSF Railway on a flatcar from its former home on the City of Prineville Railway to its new home at the ...

Take a trip back in time and see what life was like when timber and trains were the center of Pacific Northwest industry. The Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad offers a glimpse of the past with nine logging ...

A dollar doesn’t get a lot these days — unless you’re looking for a 19th century steam locomotive. The Eureka City Council approved a transfer of ownership of the Falk Gypsy No. 1 Steam Locomotive ...

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Clanking and whirring, a steam locomotive noses three wagonloads of tourists past a mammoth leaking water tower. The train disappears up a rail incline into the forest. A whistle fit for a ...

Imagine standing on a railroad track amid the silence of the forest. Suddenly the ground begins to tremble and the puffing of a steam engine overtakes the silence. Learn how the 1915 Climax logging ...

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On Saturday, May 13, visitors to the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Southeast Portland can take a ride on an 111-year-old steam locomotive. Nowadays, most trains are electric or diesel-powered, but ...