Amtrak Cascades is planned to no longer run over some of the most scenic parts of the route (such as this location) once the inland "commuter route" is completed, which is supposed to save some mi... (more)

Talgo Series 8 cab car "Mt. Bachelor" heads up southbound Cascades train 509 as it glides along the Puget Sound at Steilacoom in last light.

Amtrak 198 rolls south along the Puget Sound at Steilacoom on the point of the Coast Starlight.

If only it were a matched consist... wah.

Amtrak Cascades passes some scenic country along the Puget Sound.

BN 6834 leads a southbound freight through Seilacoom, WA along Puget Sound at the ferry slip to McNeil Island. This line sees BNSF, UP and Amtrak 40 years later, and Amtrak will soon move off this... (more)

Its really difficult to pass up this location, especially with a sunset as nice as this one. This is the BNSF Centralia turn out of Tacoma. Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: GE ET44AC
Location: Steilacoom, Washington, USA
Locomotive #: Unknown
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: June 04, 2016

UP 7772 brings up the rear of a northbound UP garbage train returning to Seattle from eastern Oregon. The train is on BNSF along Puget Sound at Steilacoom, south of Tacoma. The former NP depot is ... (more)

An empty Union Pacific garbage train rolls through Steilcoom, WA behind a GE/EMD combo near the ferry slip crossing. The train is headed from eastern Oregon back to Seattle and is long enough to j... (more)

Amtrak's Coast Starlight, No. 11 from Seattle skirts Puget Sound at Steilacoom, WA striking a patriotic pose while the weather toys with our attempt to gain sunlit shots in January in the Pacific ... (more)

An empty grainer rolls north through Steilacoom just after sunset, on it's way to a crew change in Auburn. Once re-crewed, it will begin it's snowy journey over Stampede Pass on it's way east.

A Northbound Oil train scares the living daylights out off all who fear it, as it rolls through Steilacoom just after sunset.

A Union Pacific Directors' Special glides along Puget Sound on a partly cloudy spring morning at Steilacoom, WA. UP has trackage rights here on BN's former NP mainline between Tacoma and Portland.... (more)

Chamber's creek is not much of a water way. Navigable for less then half a mile, yet it still warrants a bridge that opens to allow pleasure craft to move to and fro. The setting lends itself to... (more)