Cut Loose Caboose: A few months ago, the barber I've been going to since moving to Issaquah relocated from his old storefront next to the Front Street Market; much to my surprise, Maurice s... (more)

"Big Horn Pass", on the rear of the combined "Empire Builder/North Coast Limited" two days before Amtrak. Better not leave the cars sitting next to the business on the left...

Empire Builder ready to depart Seattle.

With the passage of time nature is reclaiming the old GN tunnel. The railroad completed the bore in December, 1900, the original line used a system of eight switchbacks to cross Stevens Pass. In... (more)

One can almost hear the long ago din and bustle of the Great Northern Railroad town of Wellington echo off the walls of the first snowshed on the line down to Skykomish. The structure is now part... (more)

This ex-passenger, ex-GN unit is one of the more decrepid ones around. Only MILW could compete, with it's occasionally plywood side panels.

This could easily be 1965 with that truck. The Inland Empire Rail Historical Society's Northern Pacific F-unit days are numbered in the Spokane Fairgrounds. Washington & Idaho Railway is trying to... (more)

The Great Northern hasn't been though Edmonds in over 30 years, but the famous GN herald still glows bright in the station. Looking down on the Train Bulletin, we see Amtrak's 4 daily Cascades sta... (more)

Sitting at the end of the day by the depot...

The Spokane to Seattle Cascadian sits on Track 4 at Tacoma Union Station.

At the end of the day I grabbed one last shot of the train from the crew parking lot...

My objective on this trip was to photograph the last stand of the NP FT units. Here's a GN freight that I photographed near Tacoma, Washington. Hopefully I can find the NP FT shots and post the... (more)

The afternoon International to Vancouver is ready to leave on the left, while the Empire Builder has started to load on the right.

This is along the ROW of the Cedar Falls Branch in Monroe just yards away from where the GN met the MILW.