It's The Water! It's downtown Olympia on a warm mid-summer Friday and Tacoma Rail's "Belmore" Local crosses Capitol Lake on it's way to work industry in Tummwater's Mottman Industrial Park.... (more)

The 900 returns to town, long hood forward, with a train of empty log cars. The location is just beyond city limits near a gravel mining operation.

Two Simpson Railroad employees direct a wheeled log loader in reseating the wheel-set on an a-frame lumber car which had taken a hard hit during switching. The operation turned out to be successf... (more)

The crew of the 900 have brought a loader up from Shelton on a flat car and will off load it with a cargo ramp at the end of a spur. They are just about to Hanks Lake Road at the dry-sort yard. I ... (more)

The mail must get through! View from the cab of Simpson's #1200, stopped while waiting for the 900 to clear the line. The 900 has brought a log loader up the hill on a flat and is backing up to ... (more)

View from the cab of Simpson's 900 while switching lumber loads in the morning at the mill. Having just eight cylinders allows room to set the dynamics underneath the hood, allowing for a sweepin... (more)

This little unit is a mystery. Nice re-engining job, left it with some dignity and really nice tall stack but I'm not sure of its origins. It was apparently 703 somewhere.

Garbage Riders!

I'm heading into Tacoma to work on the little trains of the PSMRE and I hear over the radio the crew of the EVEROO asking for the Tacoma yardmaster to train his cam... (more)

W&I's official watch dog, Molly, stands guard under the parked power at Marshall Yard, doing her best to disrupt the activities of a couple photographers. Photo taken from railroad property wi... (more)

Sitting, still in disrepair and waiting for duty, 6311 keeps guard outside the old elevators in Rosalia. The setting sun, light pollution from nearby Spokane, and a single mercury vapour light pro... (more)

The 1201 shoves a cut of centerbeams down the Olympic Panel spur while PSAP power waits to move up the main to put its train together. The Simpson mainline crosses the PSAP main just this side of... (more)

On a westward afternoon job to return empty A-frames to Mill 5, the Simpson switcher "lumbers" around a corner just before crossing bridge 2. The 10 mile trip to Dayton will take around 40 - 45 m... (more)

If you want to set out to make a Dispatchers night "interesting", one sure way is to set a bunch of ties on fire. The crew of this Loram rail grinder has got just the tool for the job. The nigh... (more)

Years in the making this engine finally lands in it's final position next to the Fife History Museum. It still has a fresh coat of paint thanks to the now defunct CEECO. It had been sitting in the... (more)

Years in the making this engine finally lands in it's final position next to the Fife History Museum. It still has a fresh coat of paint thanks to the now defunct CEECO. It had been sitting in the... (more)