be covered in the next section. Mainline traffic on the Union Pacific consists of six daily Amtrak trains and approximately eight to 12 freights. Additionally, the Albany & Eastern comes into town from its base in Lebanon on most weekdays.
Eugene Eugene was once among the busiest
yards on the entire Southern Pacific system, but these days Union Pacific’s
former SP yard is pretty quiet. That’s due in part to UP’s consolidation of West Coast classification duties to Roseville, Calif., and also due to considerably weaker lumber markets. Portland & Western, however, operates several jobs out of its yard on the Oregon Electric District tracks along State Highway 99 in the northwest part of the city. In addition to day and night yard switchers, the Albany Hauler runs up the OE to Albany and back, Monday through Friday nights. It’s the third of three legs in a Eugene-Linnton service that also includes the OE Express and Harbor Turn. Primary traffic is timber moving north from a reload in Eugene for export via the Columbia River. On weekdays, the Albany Hauler’s
TOP LEFT: The rising sun greets the face of the eastbound Toledo Hauler on the morning of February 19, 2010.
LEFT: Five orange-and-black units lead the eastbound Toledo Hauler along winding Nashville Road near the town of Nashville, deep in western Oregon’s Coast Range, on March 31, 2009.
BELOW: The eastbound Toledo Hauler snakes past the tall trees of the Coast Range near Eddyville on December 29, 2009.
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