Ex-PRR SD35 6018 adds its brawn to a colorful early Conrail lash-up on a Detroit-Chicago merchandiser. I always liked SD35s -- they appeared to have big feet ... like me.

One of CP's behemoth M636s snuggles up to the wall of the Tecumseh Road roundhouse during the infamous Winter of Seventy-Eight. Wonder if it helped?

Is it that the sun shines more harshly these days or the railroads are cutting back on the quality of paint applied to new locomotives? BNSF GEVO 7697 isn't that old, but the orange livery is rap... (more)

Hurry up and wait! A hot Z train cools its heels (reportedly for three hours) mere miles from the end of its cross-country run. Mt. Baker undoubtedly has seen this sort of thing before!

Former CP 1246 steams toward Chester with a well-appointed passenger consist during Railfan Weekend festivities in 1981. Could the weather have been better?

Now that the unprecedented heat wave in the Pacific Northwest has broken (most people here aren't used to dealing with such phenomena!), trains and railfans once again can emerge to pursue their r... (more)

GEVO 5265 as DPU lends an effort to stem the downward rush through the canyon Union Pacific shares with I-84 between Durkee and Huntington. Sister 7701 had the honor of leading.

Different strokes for different folks! Scuba divers just offshore seem to be ignoring the southbound passage of a Sounder Mariners' Special (Everett to Seattle) this fine Sunday morning. Or mayb... (more)

Boeing aircraft assemblies that arrive by sea at the Port of Everett are off-loaded onto a barge, then moved across the harbor to this dock, recently opened near the bottom of BNSF's five-percent-... (more)

Unfortunate in its rather shabby appearance, Genesis 32 only represents the perennial state of poverty in which Amtrak has been kept for many years. Perhaps the more recent emphasis on more effic... (more)

Recrewing an empty Roberts Bank coal train before assaulting Stevens Pass. "Don't forget that jug of coffee -- we're gonna need it!" The two units on the point are assisted by two more in distri... (more)

Two more recent arrivals on BNSF, ES44DCs 7202 and 7211, lead a high-priority intermodal southward past Edmond's Sunset Avenue trainwatching mecca.

Under the ever-watchful gaze of Mt. Baker, an only slightly late Seattle section of the westbound Empire Builder brakes for its next-to-last stop on the journey from Chicago.

Two of BNSF's latest deliveries, ES44DCs 7212 and 7206, together with a slightly older sibling, draw an empty eastbound grain train ("worm") out of Skykomish and on up the snowy Cascades to Steven... (more)

Northbound Cascades Service train 506 departs the first stop in Washington State with a full load of clients anticipating the Thanksgiving holiday. The shove comes from a Genesis unit substitutin... (more)