I've lived in Issaquah for more than half a decade and always assumed the small piece of ex-NP track running diagonally through downtown was dormant. Grand plans to reactivate the trolley line, l... (more)
Viewed from the cab, workers apply the finishing touch of securing a center-beam "Home Depot" load of plywood while the 900 waits to move it over to the PSAP spur. Permission OK'd to be on the pro... (more)
Conductor Jerry Miller puts together an afternoon lumber train of A-frames at Mill 3. Shortly after we will take the cars up the hill to Mill 5. Permission OK'd to ride.
The 1202 was moving center-beams to storage at Knight's Siding. Spring blossoms are finally beginning to appear on the trees.
A Herzog work train pauses while a backhoe repositions itself on top of the gondolas during a trenching project for new fiber optic cable installation at Howarth Park in Everett, WA. This effort i... (more)
Beautiful spring day for a train ride on the Simpson Railroad! We have just come up the hill from Shelton bringing a forklift-on-flat-car. Doing a run-around at the south pass to shove the load in... (more)
No logs have come in from the water for awhile and the only train today was this move to bring a forklift up the hill from Shelton on a flat car. Here engineer Stick gets ready to unload the carg... (more)
"Back ten to a hook." Joe, outfitted with the essential railroader accessories of steel-toe boots, switch keys, radio and lit cigarette, informs the engineer that it's safe to shove toward ... (more)
It was a slow day for the crew and the stable was full early in the afternoon. The 1202 is the first engine, then the 1201. Just in from the rain is the 1200, and the 900 occupies the stall next... (more)
EFRX 109 shoves it's short train down the hill to Snohomish.
EFRX 109 get's ready to pull out of Maltby to head to Snohomish.
EFRX 109 picks up five loads at Snohomish Jct.
In the world of logging baby, it don't get no better than this, one of several well maintained units fielded by this Weyerhauser road.
Just about like she looked "on the the showroom floor".
