Portland & Western GP39-2 #2305 Dallas in Rainier, Oregon in Spring 2004

Photo by Cliff West

Portland & 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

Its paint job features banners reading “Celebrating 10 Years 1993-2003” commemorating the 10th anniversary of the formation of the Willamette & Pacific Railroad. My dad, Cliff West, photographed it with a local freight train at the short trestle over Fox Creek in Rainier, Oregon in the Spring of 2004.