The Portland & Western unit in the daily photo, #2302 "Adair Village", is a former Santa Fe GP39-2, one of 17 that operate on the P&W. Most wear Genesee & Wyoming orange and black, but a few of these are still in ATSF colors.

All are named after on-line towns; Adair Village is on the former SP Westside Line just north of Corvallis and was the site of a World War II training camp that hosted several U.S. Army divisions for their mobilization training before deploying for combat overseas.

The train, judging by the cars, appears to be the Rock Train that operates between a quarry on the north side of Hopmere and another quarry further north at Tonquin, south of Tualatin. Because the quarries do not have loop tracks, this train usually runs with locomotives on both ends and the crew simply changes ends at each destination.

This is the former Oregon Electric line that once hosted interurbans early in the 1900s.