This view shows the east end of Milwaukee Road's station at Beverly, WA. Beverly is located on the east side of the Columbia River across from the Boyleston Hill grade, Milwaukee's steepest mainli... (more)

Taken just west of Hood, WA on Lewis and Clark Highway, CREX 1410, acting as a DPU, shoves the grain train westbound towards Vancouver. Along the former SP&S territory, the railroad follows the Co... (more)

In the early years of the BN merger, Wenatchee, WA was a healthy source of originating traffic requiring both branchline and mainline locals. It's GN history lived into the mid-70s with some GN pa... (more)

BN 9732, a former GN passenger F3A mates up with an x-GN passegner F7B and former NP F7A at Auburn, WA where they were assigned at the time for transfer service and regional freights between the C... (more)

Former passenger F no. 9726 of GN heritage is mated up with NP F7A no. 756 at BN's Auburn Yard, located halfway between Seattle and Tacoma, WA on the former NP mainline. The yard was reduced in im... (more)

An excursion on the Palouse River Railroad rolls south along the Palouse River. The train was all California - two former Western Pacific GP35s, and two former Southern Pacific Daylight passenger... (more)

The Port of Olympia was the departure point for two PT KAI / Indonesian National Railways narrow gauge locomotives on 10/23/2020. CC2051326 & CC2051315 arrived damaged at Progress Rail in Tacoma,... (more)

The Port of Olympia was the departure point for two PT KAI / Indonesian National Railways narrow gauge locomotives on 10/23/2020. CC2051326 & CC2051315 arrived damaged at Progress Rail in Tacoma,... (more)

Returning to Portland from a week on Washington Central, the SP&S 700 heads west through the Columbia River Gorge.

Deep in the heart of the Columbia River Gorge, westbound intermodal BN 13 rolls through Home Valley. The truss bridge spanning the mouth of Wind River was recently replaced by BNSF.

A westbound grain train nears Bingen, Washington in the Columbia River Gorge. The Oakways were fairly rare birds on the old SP&S.

An eastbound BNSF train nears Lyle, Washington in the Columbia River Gorge. Despite the early November date, a fair amount of fall color remains on the trees.

Nine months after the merger of Burlington Northern and Santa Fe, along the Columbia River it didn't look like anything had changed. A westbound stack train nears Bingen on the Fallbridge Subdivi... (more)

Two empty grain trains await their turn to depart eastward on a fall afternoon.

Long before anyone ever heard of "Tiger King," a tiger-striped GP50 leads an autorack train west through the Columbia River Gorge.