Two railroad pictures are not enough
After I finished looking at the new trolley line, I went home via trolley->#17 bus->#70 bus, which should have been nice and fast. And it was, at least up until the point where I reached the bus stop at Haig & 17th, and then spent about 40 minutes cooling my heels as I waited for one of the one-every-15-minutes busses to arrive. This was annoying, but it wasn't a total waste, because I was still sitting at the bus stop when the 18:15 Cascades came sailing through Brooklyn Yard:
And the train was pulled by the P32 I saw last friday, so that answered why that engine was on the northbound Coast Starlight. Unfortunately I was located far enough away so I had to be zoomy to get the picture (and you can't see it but a Tri-Met bus was pacing the train and was just out of the left side of the picture. It wasn't [much of] a problem here, but it was approximately 30 feet behind the 507 when it swept by the foot of Haig St, so the hopeful dramatic engine-popping-out-from-behind-the-building photo became a not quite so dramatic side-of-a-trimet-bus photo.])