The newest of Loram's 420 series Rail Grinders is working the BNSF Seattle sub in the Tacoma area. This is the RG421, configured with 3 grinding cars, 2 - 75,000 gal water cars , a tool/crew car,... (more)

Amtrak 14, Starlight, has just completed it's station stop at the new (again) Tacoma Dome Station on the Lakewood sub. The station's name sake is in the background, while the train crosses the c... (more)

Thursday 11/18/21 was the first day for passenger trains on the Pt Defiance bypass, Sound Transits Lakewood sub. Amtrak #11, Starlight, was the first long distance passenger train on the route. Th... (more)

Thursday 11/18/21 was the first day for passenger trains on the Pt Defiance bypass, Sound Transits Lakewood sub. Cascades 503 was the first passenger train on the route, this time around. The Lake... (more)

Wednesday 11/17/21 was the last day for passenger trains on the Pt Defiance portion of BNSF's Seattle Sub. The next day, the Cascades and Starlights moved to the Lakewood Sub. With that move, s... (more)

A break in the Autumn rains of the Puget Sound area, gives way to a decent sunset, while UP's empty garbage train heads back to Seattle for a refill.

Ahh, the rarely photographed Two Medicine Bridge, just east of East Glacier Montana. An east bound empty grainer crosses in heavy winds.

Loaded grainer crossing the Middle Fork of the Flathead River, just west of Coram.

An east bound empty grain train meets a west bound loaded grain train just east of Grizzly. In the background is Marias Pass highlighted by Summit Mountain and Calf Robe Mountain.

The Empire Builder has just rolled past the Isaac Walton Inn at Essex without a whistle stop. Now crossing over the Middle Fork of the Flathead River, it's only a few minutes behind schedule as i... (more)

Between East Java and Blacktail on the BNSF Hi Line Sub are a series of snowsheds. Only a couple days away from the first snow of the season, this Vehicle train makes it way along the numerous sn... (more)

A river can handle a drop in elevation much more comfortably than a railroad. Here the BNSF is making its way downhill a little more gradually than the Flathead River. With no way around the mou... (more)

Along the Middle Fork of the Flathead River flows midwestern grain bound for the terminals on the west coast. Here at one of a string of tunnels, a pair of faded bonnets are in charge of another ... (more)

Earlier in this day, I got this train crossing the somewhat more impressive Lake Pend Oreille at MP 4.5. Now, nearly 4.5 hours later the train is at MP 45 along Sprague lake, just outside the tiny... (more)

A BNSF Chicago to Portland Stack train makes its way over the "swing bridge" portion of original Lake Pend Orielle bridge, while construction of the second railroad bridge across the lake is in fu... (more)