This Space for Rent

(internal combustion) railroad picture of the day

EPT1202_eastportlandyard

The new replacement working Eng! has been temporarily relocated up to East Portland while this weekend’s Holiday Express runs up and down the line. I was chasing the first train out (fortunately they only run the poor 700 at about 15mph, so I was able to (a) catch up with when I got down to Oaks Park just in time to see it disappearing into the distance, then (b) overtake it several times so I could stop and take pictures of the scene of the crime) but I had to take a slight detour when I saw the 1202 sitting in the yard throat just south of the SPYellow Menace mainline.