While Mt. Rainier sports a Lenticular cloud cap, a BNSF empty grainer is using the Stampede Wye for headroom at Auburn WA. Note the remnants of the old Roundhouse, behind the locomotives.

Tacoma Rail's Hill job makes a late appearance on Sunday morning, crossing the Sound Transit Tacoma bridge, where once stood the historic Milwaukee S-Curve wooden trestle. The acknowledgment pres... (more)

A BNSF Warbonnet brings up the rear of a Seattle bound stack train.

BNSF 7718 leading a eastbound manifest through Wishram Center on the BNSF Fallbridge Sub.

BNSF 6693 leading the H-PASFRS over the Celilo Drawbridge as it will make it's journey down the Oregon Trunk Subdivision towards Bend, OR

A tired looking Superfleet dash 9 leads an empty garbage train past Horsethief on a hot evening, after waiting at Avery for a few hours due to a slide fence activation.

With a Siemens Charger shoving on the rear, Amtrak Cascades train 503 rolls southward.

BNSF 5399 breaks through a cloud in the Columbia River Gorge on it's way to Portland with a grain train.

A little over seven hours late, the Empire Builder's Portland section has just emerged from the Columbia River Gorge at Washougal, Washington. The next station stop for train 27 will be Vancouver,... (more)

Tacoma Rails Hill passes by the crossing at Allison and along side the old Allison siding which has been used by Tacoma Eastern, Milwuakee Road, Chehalis Western, and now Tacoma Rail.

Tacoma Rails Hill begins the ascend of Tacoma Hill and is coming out of the curves in between and under 3 different freeways. Todays train dealing made the hill easily even with the wet rail being... (more)

Tacoma Rails Hill Job is deep into Tacoma Hill starting the first of many S curves up to the top of the Hill. Todays train has no problems lifting 20 cars up the hill with Tacoma Rails SD70ACe-P4 ... (more)

Deep within the Cascade Mountains, BNSF's Elwood, IL to Seattle, WA harbor stack rolls across the Gaynor Trestle in Gaynor, WA on July 17th, 2022.

After a quick crew change in Wenatchee, a Seattle to Chicago Z train crosses the Yakima River at Rock Island, Washington. The Great Northern Railway chose this location because it was the narrowes... (more)

SPOEVE heads west downgrade at Trinidad.