A northbound Amtrak Cascades train passes by Carkeek Park with a Cascades NPCU bringing up the rear.

The Silver Solarium brought up the rear of AmtrakCascades train 510 as it accelerates out of Edmonds, WA on a gray August morning. The train provides service between Seattle and Vancouver, BC with... (more)

Sound Transit F59PHI No. 603 gets hand-washed at Seattle, Washington, on May 28, 2008. In the background are Amtrak EMD F59PHI No. 468 and Amtrak’s eastbound Empire Builder equipment.

Sounder 902 in downtown Seattle in the travel by ORCA scheme.

With the sun setting after 11 PM in July there isn't much chance for fireworks in Alaska. However if the day is nice one can shoot a few passenger trains returning to Anchorage late in the evening... (more)

The train from Fairbanks approaches the station at Denali Park on the Alaska Railroad.

Sound Transit equipment lays over at the coach yard in Seattle, Washington, on May 28, 2008. Dominating the background is Seattle Mariners’ ballpark Safeco Field and its retractable roof.

On a very blustery day a lengthy train off the barge in Whittier rolls through the Portage Valley while a mostly obscured Begich Peak looks on as the day begins to clear. One can look quite a way ... (more)

Looking like southern California, former SP 2568 and a sister unit await an uncertain fate at Progress Locomotives in Tacoma.

The Alaska State Fair is a two week long annual celebration that punctuates the end of summer in the 49th State. The fairgrounds in Palmer sit right beside the ARR's normally freight only branch ... (more)

A Palouse River & Coulee City train works south through the elevators and silos of Spangle, Wash.

Great Northern 99 works GN equipment at the King Street Station.

Three sets of Northern Pacific passenger F-units await their next train at the King Street Station.

Converted from a steam locomotive tender, steam generator car H-4 lays over in Seattle. Note the covers on the the rolling bearing trucks.