PNWR 3570 at West Colton.

The SC44s used to pull the Amtrak Cascades service are owned by Washington State DOT. In previous years this train used the cooler looking 'batmobile' Talgo passenger cars, but it still sports a ... (more)

Running around 90 minutes off schedule, the Portland section of the Empire Builder rolls through the Columbia River Gorge. The train is about 53 miles into its journey to Spokane, where it will be... (more)

After dropping off some flatcars at Scenic, the boing local returns light back to Everett crossing over the raging Sunset Falls.

With matching scarlet & gray power, the Kenton Local ducks under Interstate 5 on its way back to Barnes.

As a C&NW employee located in the Seattle area if was always heart warming to see C&NW locos come to town, mostly on Union Pacific. This trio led by Fast Forty 8037 featured CNW 6802, their second... (more)

For the final time, Tacoma Rail runs the Hill Job up Tacoma Gulch. With the 3000's dead in tow, they get up to a walking pace after stalling out on the S curve just below. Will this be the last tr... (more)

Tacoma Rail's Hill Job arrives in Frederickson on a wet Sunday morning.

Amtrak 964 north heads through Fairhaven on a brisk, sunny morning. Amtrak Cascades ran a few test trains prior to resuming service between Seattle and Vancouver, BC.

Northern Pacific Railway FTA 5401A, built by Electro-Motive Corporation (EMC) in March 1944 as NP 6001A, was photographed in Sumas WA along with an FTB, a GP7 and another A-B set of FTs. Sumas is... (more)

UP GP30 720 leads a UP local north near Nelson Bennett Tunnel crossing over from the right main to the left as it gets close to the junction to access UP's Tacoma Yard. UP is running with trackage... (more)

The fog is coming.

Some Interlay employee had a little fun with some of the soon to be retired SD45s making a "Rocky Lives" stencil and applying it to several units. This unit was done operating and featur... (more)

BN SD45s 6428 & 6555 are accompanied by GP9 BN 1702 (chop nosed) and SW1200 BN 187 at Seattle's Interlay roundhouse and turntable. For the SD45s, this period of time was their twilight and soon LM... (more)

BN 8159 leads an eastbound intermodal train onto double track at MP 18 in Edmonds, WA on its ways between Seattle and the climb over Stevens Pass for the trip to Chicago. BNSF has graded between E... (more)