Mercedes and I were driving north on Highway 101 heading into Garibaldi, Oregon on Saturday when something small and yellow caught our eye zooming down the railroad tracks along side us. Then we noticed a few more of them, this time in orange. A couple years ago, I saw a few of these diminutive rail cars in Portland, and was equally curious then, but wasn't able to stop. What the heck are these things? Oh well; they'd alluded us again, or so I thought.
We pulled into Garibaldi and noticed a large old locomotive billowing steam into the air. Being somewhat of a closet railfan, we decided to stop and check out the steam-powered locomotive and vintage railcars. Lucky for us, the little vehicles we'd just seen pulled into the station. I had to find out more.
