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 ...

Restoration continues and a new place for display has been secured for the locomotive that for many years was located next to the Scotia Museum. Once fully restored, Locomotive No. 9 will be displayed ...

A small group in the foothills of Mount Rainier has been tasked since the 1980s with running a tourist railroad there. It also has a larger goal of preserving some part of the logging era that helped ...

The mountain-climbing Climax locomotive featured in this column Nov. 1 had indeed been a part of Louis Carr’s logging operation in the Pisgah Forest, but it was misidentified as a Class A Climax. It ...

We imagine loggers as burly men in calk boots, wool shirts and pants trimmed nearly to their boot tops to keep them from snagging on the brush and leftover bramble of their work. We don’t think of ...

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 ...

There’s nothing more guaranteed to excite a grizzled old railway enthusiast than the sight of a steam locomotive. The original main-line rail propulsion technology still clings on in a few places, but ...