Colorful

Some of the more interesting trainsets to come through Eugene in recent years have been the Canadian grain trains. These unit trains were made up of long strings of covered jumbo hopper cars, filled with grain from the prairies of the Canadian west bound for California. They were a joint operation with the Canadian Pacific Railroad, who frequently provided their own locomotives. This made for a colorful consist, with CP red and leased blue units mixed in with UP yellow.

On one of our trips up the hill, we captured a set just outside of Westir, Oregon.

Typical jumbo hopper: