Railroad picture(s) of the day
We went, as we usually do on Sunday mornings when we're in town, down to Milwaukie to make a pass through the Milwaukie Farmers Market to load up on fresh fruits and vegetables. While we were in the middle of our sweep, I heard a suspiciously close-sounding locomotive whistling for a crossing, and, after a brief "is that on the branch or on the main?" waffle, bolted off to a place where I could see whatever was coming. To my delight, it was a train on the branch, and for the first time ever I managed to catch a train coming through Milwaukie, even if the only pictures I got were taken at maximum zoominess.
Since the bears went into their anti-railroad phase we've not been going past the Eng!s down at the southern terminal of Portland Traction (now apparently the actual southern terminal, because the old switching lead at the paper mill in Oregon City has been disconnected and paved over.) But today we went down that route and spotted this new switcher (which, if I'm reading the paint scheme and reporting marks correctly, is an ex-CRANDIC unit) sitting in the shop yard. If this is a CRANDIC unit, it might be the one that was listed for sale on the CRANDIC's website this morning[nope: the one on CRANDIC's website actually says CEDAR RAPIDS AND IOWA CITY, and #91 has been unlettered for around a year now. Maybe it's #94 that CRANDIC is selling today?]