A southbound Cascades Service train set pounds the Steilacoom drawbridge. Of particular interest are the heavily corroded rails buried in the channel. You can see a fishplate and several bolt hole... (more)

A sight not often seen - heavy sea (sound) level snow. A UP northbound manifest rolls through snow and past some Christmas lights in Steilacoom.

An evening with a stunning sunset over Mt Rainier and the South Puget Sound, was lacking one element, trains. So I was forced to wait until after dark for the first train. I've also been wonderi... (more)

I've been chided that I shoot this bridge too much, but there always seems to be a way to work it in to a scene. So here it is one more time with the Coast Starlight painting some color along the... (more)

Cascades 516 crosses Bridge 14 at Chambers Creek, while the Christine Anderson arrives at the Steilacoom ferry dock. The passengers of the vessel and the train get to sit back and enjoy an incre... (more)

Right on time! A BNSF Grainer crosses a small inlet on the Puget Sound as a stunning sunset begins to form! Click Here for ano... (more)

Off into the sunset! Cascades 509 crosses the bridge at milepost 15.9, just south of the Steilacoom ferry dock, heading for it's next stop at Centennial Station in E. Olympia. BNSF 2089 is fil... (more)

Classic Puget Sound: A southbound Cascade dashes past the ferry dock in Steilacoom. The Tacoma Narrows bridge is visible in the upper left.

UP's Portland to Fife Manifest crosses bridge 15.9 just south of the Steilacoom Ferry dock on a quiet sunny morning. Click Here ... (more)

As a nice summer day comes to a close, a southbound BNSF intermodal meets a northbound UP intermodal on the Chamber's creek lift bridge. Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: GE C44-9W (Dash 9-44CW)
Location: Steilacoom, Washington, USA
Locomotive #: BNSF 1021
Train ID: n/a
Photo Date: June 24, 2008

No train in this shot. A good thing in this case, as the bridge was just raised and has been captured in the process of lowering. The reason of course are the streaks of light. Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: n/a
Location: Steilacoom, Washington, USA
Locomotive #: n/a
Train ID: n/a
Photo Date: July 17, 2008

The BNSF Tacoma to Pasco WA train crosses the short bridge at MP 15.5, heading in to the glint of the late afternoon sun. In the Sound, the Pierce County Ferry boat heads back from it's Ketron Is... (more)

A Blue Heron watches a moonlit meet on bridge 14, with Olympic mountains in the background. A squawk of a FRED brought me to halt at this site, in time to barely catch the first of 5 trains in ab... (more)

A NB BNSF Freight derailed 13 cars. Both Mains chewed up pretty good. This car is the culprit, having traveled about 3 miles off the rails, due to a frozen wheel bearing. The wheelset missing ... (more)

A NB Freight derailed 13 cars at about 3am this morning. No Hazardous, No injuries. Steilacoom Ferry dock closed for several hours and only some soybeans hit the water, besides this boxcar. B... (more)