Photo by Cliff West
My dad, Cliff West, photographed this special train running through Rainier, Oregon, on the Portland & Western Railroad's Astoria Line in the Fall of 2003.
Photo by Cliff WestPortland & Western GP39-2 #2305 Dallas is a
2,300-horsepower GP39-2 that was built by the Electro-Motive Division of
General Motors in August 1974 as Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe #3604. It was
retired in December 1992 and was sold to the Willamette & Pacific Railroad
in June 1993 and later transferred to the Portland & Western.
Photo by Cliff West
The Caritas was
built in 1948 by Pullman as a 4-Bedroom, 14-Roomette Sleeping Car for the St.
Louis-San Francisco Railway, or Frisco for short. The car was originally
named Pierre Laclede after the founder of St. Louis. The car
was originally assigned to the Texas Special, which ran between St.
Louis, Missouri, and San Antonio, Texas, over the Frisco and the
Missouri-Kansas-Texas. The Frisco discontinued its portion of the Texas
Special (the northern portion) in 1959. In 1964, this car was sold to
the Canadian National and named Churchill Falls. High Iron Travel bought the car in 1983 and rebuilt it to its current
configuration, with 3 double bedrooms and a master room, dining area, galley,
wine cellar, and lounge.
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