One of Portland's two resident northern locomotives, Spokane, Portland & Seattle , at the point of the 2004 Santa Train. The train has just crossed the Steel Bridge and is pulling into Portland Union Station.

The only successful application of the iconic Talgo design in North America, there are only two trainsets remaining in Amtrak Cascades service.

The NW5 was EMD's response to Alco's successful RS-1 roadswitcher, and was basically an EMD switch engine with road trucks and a short hood containing a steam generator. However, the formula that worked for Alco did not work for EMD and only 13 NW5s were built in 1946 and 1947.

As this locomotive was exposed to the elements in an industrial area of Portland and easily accessible, it suffered from vandalism and decay and was scrapped in 2013. Fortunately, two of these rarities have been preserved.

This Douglas DC-8-63(F) was originally delivered to VIASA as a passenger aircraft in December 1968.

Fun fact. The orange ball visible on the left side of the photo just above the runway is part of a cable arresting system installed for the Air National Guard F-15s that operate out of the airport.

I posted a photo on kbin yesterday from my photo hosting service. I thought the image would hot link from my gallery so I wouldn't be using bandwidth from the kbin.social server. But it looks like the image gets picked up and hosted on the kbin server anyway.

Is there any way to hotlink from an outside host where the image will display in the post? If not, are there some general guidelines about image file size?