The Hawaiian Railway 3:00pm excursion has begun the return trip to the museum at Ewa after stopping at the present end of the line in Kahe Point. Excursion trains stop here briefly to give passen... (more)

It's a busy Sunday afternoon at the Hawaiian Railway Society. Hawaiian Railway 45-Tonner 423 is out of service having some work performed on one truck. At left in the shop is former US Navy Whit... (more)

One of two Dole Pineapple Express consists pulls up to the loading area to take on another load of tourists on a busy Labor Day Monday. Trains take visitors on a narrated journey through the plan... (more)

Amtrak engine 510 pulls Amtrak train 510 northward towards Bellingham, WA, ducking under the Chuckanut Drive overpass along the mud flats on the southeast side of Samish Bay.

A short - and eclectic - train operates out of Portland's Oregon Rail Heritage Center behind Oregon Pacific GMD-1 1413. Built in 1959 as Canadian National 1045, this engine originally had A1A-A1A... (more)

Mt. Rainier has been sporting a Lenticular clould cap much of the afternoon, but as soon as I head out to catch it near sunset, it starts playing peek-a-boo. So what are the odds it will even be ... (more)

Cloud cover returned to the Puget Sound for pretty much the entire day, except when Cascades 516 rolls by the Ferry dock in Steilacoom.

An evening Amtrak Cascades train passing through White Rock on its way to Seattle from Vancouver, BC.

Having never seen 2/3 of the locomotives in this building before today, it was a truly magnificent experience, and the facilities and people here are top notch. They aren't arrogant by any stretc... (more)

McCloud River Railroad #25 rests at the depot in Rockaway Beach after a run up from Garibaldi for the Oregon Coast Scenic Railway. This is one fine looking Alco 2-6-2, and it's nice to see that t... (more)

A lot of material at the baggage car at the Spencer Whistle Stop. At this place many passengers leave the train for trekking, walking or riverrafting

Working at the baggage car at Talkeetna

Autumn on the Chelatchie Prairie Railroad. Crossett Western saddle-tanker #10 rumbles across the high bridge, spanning the East Fork of the Lewis River on a beautiful fall day. The bridge... (more)

There is no fire…. yet! What are they doing? Southern Pacific ran a vegetation control spray train on its Cascade Subdivision to apply a herbicide to prevent growth of burdensome Bracken fe... (more)

GN 1196 lettered City of Spokane brings up the rear markers on Amtrak's Empire Builder as it leaves Seattle on a sunny spring evening.