Trains in Salem, Oregon, on April 6, 2007

I took these train pictures in Salem, Oregon, on April 6, 2007.

Leading the northbound Coast Starlight at the Amtrak depot is Amtrak #119. 

It is a 4,250-horsepower P42DC that was built by General Electric in September 1997. 

The trailing unit is Amtrak #507.

It is a 3,200-horsepower Dash 8-32BWH.

It was built by General Electric in December 1991.

A total of 20 of these locomotives were built for Amtrak.

Further south, a number of Union Pacific locomotives were at the Salem yard.

Union Pacific #536 is a 2,000-horsepower GP38-2 that was built by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors in June 1974 as Union Pacific #2036. 

It was renumbered to Union Pacific #536 on December 16, 2000. 

Union Pacific (UPY) #568 is a 1,500-horsepower GP15-1 that was built by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors in July 1976 as Missouri Pacific #1568. 

After the Missouri Pacific was merged into the Union Pacific in 1982, this locomotive was renumbered to Union Pacific #1568 on April 15, 1991. 

It was transferred to Union Pacific’s new UPY reporting mark for yard locomotives as UPY #568 on June 15, 2000. 

Union Pacific #300 is a 2,000-horsepower GP38-2 that was built by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors in January 1972 as Missouri Pacific #658 under a 15-year lease. As part of a 1974 system renumbering it became Missouri Pacific #2009. 

It was returned to the lessor at the end of the 15-year lease in 1987 and was sold to Helm Financial to become Helm Leasing #2009. It was leased by Union Pacific in February 1989 and became Union Pacific #1800 on October 2, 1989. It was renumbered to Union Pacific #300 on April 1, 2001. 

Union Pacific #549 is a 2,000-horsepower GP38-2 that was built by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors in April 1975 as Union Pacific #2049. 

It was renumbered to Union Pacific #549 on July 22, 2003.

Amtrak Trains in Salem, Oregon, on April 3, 2007

I took these train pictures at the Amtrak depot in Salem, Oregon, on April 3, 2007. 

First is Amtrak’s northbound Coast Starlight.

Leading the train is Amtrak #114.

It is a 4,250-horsepower P42DC.

It was built by General Electric in September 1997. 

While making the station stop, the train temporarily blocked Mill Street.

The trailing unit is Amtrak #192.

It is a 4,250-horsepower P42DC.

It was built by General Electric in September 2001. 

Leading southbound Amtrak Cascades Train #507, Amtrak #461 is one of 15 3,200-horsepower F59PHIs built for Pacific Surfliner service between San Luis Obispo and San Diego, California. 

It was built in August 1998 by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors with final assembly by Super Steel Schenectady of Schenectady, Pennsylvania. 

Aside from the paint scheme, it is identical to the Cascades F59PHI locomotives. 

It was presumably filling in for a Cascades unit in need of maintenance in Los Angeles, where all Amtrak’s F59PHI locomotives were maintained. 

Amtrak Cascades #7101 is a Talgo Series 6 Baggage Car from the Mt. Baker Cascades trainset, built in 1999 for the Washington State Department of Transportation. 

Bringing up the rear of the Cascades train is Amtrak Cascades #90250, a Non-Powered Cab Unit or NPCU.

It was rebuilt in February 2000 from Amtrak #250, a 3,000-horsepower F40PH that was built by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors in October 1977, using components from traded-in Amtrak SDP40F locomotive #560.

Portland & Western GP39-2 #2309 at Rainier, Oregon

Photo by Cliff West

Portland & Western #2309 “Philomath,” 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 #3608. 

Photo by Cliff West

It was retired in December 1992 and was sold to the Willamette & Pacific Railroad in June 1993 and later transferred to the Portland & Western. My dad, Cliff West, photographed it in Rainier, Oregon, in April or May of 2007.