Shortly after stalling, the final Tacoma Rail train headed to Frederickson, WA gets moving again.

120 cars of Wyoming's Powder River coal are on the final leg of their journey to the Comanche Power Plant in Pueblo, CO as they battle the 1.5% grade of Orsa on Colorado's BNSF/UP Joint Line.

Torrential rains fell for 4 days strait, causing localized flooding, and the Brush Sub was in the middle of it all. Here we see BNSF 8415 (SD70ACe) notching up after holding for an inspection o... (more)

Storm light and light fog provides dynamic lighting for BNSF 9321 (SD70ACe) as it leads an empty coal train east on the Brush Sub.

KCS 5017 shown back in 2021. Who would have thought that KCS 5017 would be a famous unit being featured in the CPKC merger ceremony in KC and leading the first MidWest Mexico Express out of Bensen... (more)

NS 187 pulls past 20th Street after arriving at Norris Yard with DC to AC conversion unit #4004 third out.

A pair of NS SD70ACes drag NS 135 up Old Fort mountain after a substantial snowfall.

17,700 tons of Powder Basin coal is putting strain on the drawbars of this Halsted, TX coal train as it crest the 7,200 ft summit at Palmer Lake on Colorado's Joint Line.

A pair of SD70ACe’s lead the eastbound gas local across the 10th sub.

As Frederickson, Washington is growing, Tacoma Rail is in tactical retrograde from the area and the business will now be handled by Rainier Rail from the much flatter southerly approach from McKen... (more)

NS 710 at Natural Tunnel

Eleven years later, I am still coming across files I had not touched yet of the heritage event in Spencer.

For the final time, Tacoma Rail runs the Hill Job up Tacoma Gulch. After grabbing the second cut further down the hill, 7001 leads what may be the final uphill cut of freight cars ever on the hill... (more)

For the final time, Tacoma Rail runs the Hill Job up Tacoma Gulch. With the 3000's dead in tow, they get up to a walking pace after stalling out on the S curve just below. Will this be the last tr... (more)

A spring snowstorm catches BNSF 9319 (SD70ACe) as it leads a loaded coal train through Spruce, Colorado on the southbound Joint Line.