A couple MP and UP caboose sit in Seattle under the night sky.

Southbound BNSF C44-9W No. 4485 leads its train onto the BNSF Bridge No. 4 over Salmon Bay. The Single Leaf Bascule Bridge carries the BNSF Mainline north and south.

Sounding for Horton: The last Sounder commuter train for the day leaves Seattle and sounds the horn for the Horton Street Crossing. The Sound Transit F59 fleet has been the backbone of comm... (more)

Rebuilt GP7. Photo by Dave Petke. From my collection.

You spin me right round right round. This is the last active roundhouse and turntable combo in Washington state. Interbay is also home of Seattle's Fishermans Terminal, across the street from the ... (more)

It wasn't unusual for 'rails' to chalk their inside jokes on each other's locomotives. In this case, 'swine' is a play on SD9 and the hoghead's nickname. What is unusual in this photo however is ... (more)

Stacy Yard, floodlights, fog, ..and goats. A single SW1000 could pull 9000 tons between the UP yard interchange and Stacy as long as all the switches were lined and everyone else stayed out of th... (more)

Seattle Skies. The sky was overcast, but It was still early in the morning when Amtrak Coast Starlight (Train 11) was getting ready to depart King Street Station in Seattle, Washington on M... (more)

This little critter was ordered by the Department of Energy in the 1940s and used in the construction of the Hanford Nuclear Site. I can remember it sitting in this spot since at least the early ... (more)

F3(A) 6501C with F3(B) 6501B and F5(A) 6505A photographed at Seattle, Washington in August 1961, wearing NP's two-tone green and white passenger livery. Photo by H.G. Benton, photo part of my ... (more)

UP 842 on a southbound freight is holding at Black River Jct. siding as UP 928 leads the "Old Timers Special" deadhead equipment move past en route to Argo Yard, Seattle, where it will b... (more)

UP baggage car 5716 is part of the "Old Timers Special" deadheading to Seattle at Black River Jct., south of downtown. Note the viewing safety gates and OTS logo. Passengers can enjoy a ... (more)

UP 842 waits in the siding at Black River Jct. in south Seattle as the last car of the UP "Old Timers Special" deadhead move rolls by.

BN NW2 465 and SW1200 216 sun themselves outside the Interbay roundhouse in Seattle. The 465 sported a steam era headlight, and the former GN switcher dates back to July 1939. BN 216 is a former N... (more)

Business car Columbia River was assigned to Seattle in the early 1980s and when not being used found its home on a stub track at King St. Station. The station served Amtrak and now also serves Sou... (more)