Railroad picture of the day
POTB 6164 sits on the mainline in Timber, Oregon. Is it dead and marking the end of track? Is it the Timber switcher (there’s not much in Timber, but there are piles of lumber along the track east of Timber Road)? Is it being used as a MOW engine to maintain the now out of service track west to the washouts in Salmonberry Canyon?
If I had more time I would have poked around, but I was riding the Birkie and was thus on a bit of a time and energy constraint (the 200k Birkie + 86km to get from home to Forest Grove & back made for a fairly long day) and all I could do was scoot up someone’s gravel driveway to snap this picture before turning around and continuing my deathmarch to Birkenfield and back.