Richard Wilkens, SP&S Railway Historical Society Archivist, announced March 22, 2026,
As many of you know the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive that hosts the online research for the SP&S Society was hit last year by a ransomware attack. At this time most of the material was on Sharepoint and this old site will not be going back online, but the PNRA was already setting up a new research site named Railroad Archives Online (RAO) https://atom.pnrarchive.org/nav. With this attack the PNRA has been accelerating transferring material to RAO, but this takes a considerable amount of work. As of right now 11,314 SP&S related items are on RAO and this consists of timetables, drawings and several photograph collections. The most recent material to be placed online is photographs from the Walt Ainsworth Collection, and these are related to steam locomotives, diesel locomotives, photos by locations, freight cars, passenger cars, and work equipment. Currently the captioning of photos for the Oregon Trunk and Oregon Electric is under way, and hopefully they will be available by end of April.
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