Four hours late, the Portland section of the Empire Builder exits a stretch of two main tracks at Washougal, Washington. The next stop for train 27 is at Vancouver, roughly 20 minutes to the west.
With a wildfire smoke sunset in the background, #14, running pretty much on time, is pulling out of the Tacoma Dome Station and across the new Sound Transit Tacoma Trestle.
This is a BNSF stack train at the Port of Tacoma, delivering a train to Tacoma Rail. As part of normal operations, this train comes west across Stevens Pass, through Seattle and down (south) to... (more)