ALBANY – While many students use the I-5 corridor to simply get to class, hundreds of visitors are descending on Linn-Benton Community College at the end of the month with a very different kind of commute in mind.
Winterail 2026, the West Coast’s premier railroad photography and history exposition, will officially pull into the Albany campus on March 28. From high-definition digital photo presentations to a swap meet filled with models and vintage railroad memorabilia, the event transforms the halls of LBCC into the epicenter of American railroading heritage.
The Commuter sat down with Vic and Annie Neves for a Q&A. They are the producers of the railroad photography show, Winterail. After the event moved from Sacramento to Stockton, even to Modesto, it eventually followed the Neves to Corvallis in 2014. The event has survived more than just geography; it survived a total technological “revolution” that transitioned from the photographic slide era into the digital era…