What a railfan day! I rented a car in Tacoma and headed for the back country. Not only did I get all these goodies but topped the day with a round trip cab ride and and little firing on the Mt R... (more)

Restoration work on Baldwin 2-8-2 #70 has recently reached the point where the locomotive is operational. The Mt Rainier Scenic Railroad shop crew did an amazing job, and the engine looks and runs... (more)

Twilight Surprise - I was exploring this interesting industrial line after 9 PM on the longest day of the year and was not expecting to see anything. Much to my delight while cruising down... (more)

Alaskan Outpost - While few people realize it, the ARR does own trackage outside the Last Frontier. Not much though! The ARR owns the barge slip on Harbor Island in Seattle that they use ... (more)

The Floating Train Has Arrived! A UP Seattle based yard crew has just begun the delicate process of stripping the weekly Alaska Railroad barge that has arrived from the 49th State. Three ... (more)

EFRX 109 hits a bright spot in the shadows of the tall trees in a typical Pacific Northwest setting, returning with cars from the BNSF interchange at Snohomish. This is the GNP Railway, dba Easts... (more)

Weyerhaeuser Woods Railroad “Woods Train” drifts downgrade over Evergreen Road in Ostrander toward its destination of the huge Weyerhaeuser mill complex in Longview, WA. Within the next 2 mil... (more)

Engineer Brock inspects his train before heading back up the hill to Maltby where he will drop off the loads.

Eastside Freight Railroad's SW1200 idles away at the Maltby siding before shoving north to the BNSF junction in Snohomish.

Exiting Green Mountain Mill on it's final trip to Longview, Wa. Weyerhaeuser's Woods Train crosses the South Fork Toutle River for the last time. The concrete span is a replacement; the result of... (more)

Last Run For Green Mountain... The morning Woods Train rounds the corner out of Green Mountain Mill for the last time as the final revenue run readies for its trip down to the finishing mi... (more)

In an area where the railroad runs through deep woods STC 1200 steps into a sunlit corner on its way back to Shelton from the Dayton dry-sort yard. The afternoon was a very pleasant respite after... (more)

The 1202 is on the end of a log train moving through the back yards of downtown Shelton at the beginning of a trip uphill to Dayton. The bridge is the new one which, in February 2010, replaced th... (more)

Well, that was unexpected: Driving up I-5 in the wee hours of this morning after the Autumn Leaf Slide Show in Centr... (more)

This location is where the railroad runs adjacent to the Shelton - Matlock Highway. They've been using three locomotives lately to move logs to the dry sort yard at Dayton, one up front, two on t... (more)