Tacoma Rail's Hill Job is headed back home, crossing the Sounder Trestle (former location of Milwaukee S Curve trestle). This time in the company of two Sounder trains (one dead in tow).

So much good stuff in this shot, where to begin? I’ll start with the commuter train. Well two actually. SDRX 923 is on the point of Sounder 1517 (maybe 1515), while midway back is train 1511,... (more)

An old Amtrak F40, now NPCU leads a southbound Amtrak Cascades train towards Washington, as it is silhouetted by the setting sun.

One of two new (rebuilt) MP15AC's for Tacoma Rail, in a brand new paint scheme. Also one of the last two locomotives to be produced by Progress Rail Tacoma, as they are shutting down this facilit... (more)

PNWR 1501 sitting tied down in albany.

In the dead line in Stockton.

When my father went on business trips to San Jose in the late 1970s, the Western Pacific F7s were a favorite target. On this day he didn't get an F7 on the lead, but GP40 3501 - GP20 2008 - F7(a)... (more)

A baretable with a pair of CNW GEs heads west down the SP Brooklyn Subdivision.

Fall color is in full tilt on top of Snoqualmie Pass in Washington state as MILW 177 exits Snoqualmie Tunnel after making its eastbound climb up from Cedar Falls, WA. The train will continue to Ot... (more)

A very rare visitor, an Amtrak Cascades F59PHI, came to Washington on its way to North Carolina for a temporary assignment filling in on Piedmont trains after its career in the Pacific Northwest w... (more)

NP 1735 now serves as seating for the Mount Hood Brewing Company in Portland. Located right off the Oregon Pacific track to Milwaukee and the Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation, the caboose was appar... (more)

The Willamette & Pacific yard crew is setting up the day's train to Toledo. After they add the caboose to the rear, the power will be added to the head end of the train.

Alaska Railroad Alco MRS1 1601 works the roads yard in Anchorage in the summer of 1980. At the time there were several of these former US military units running. there low clearance profile is cle... (more)

The Spirit of Washington dinner train crosses the Wilburton Trestle near downtown Bellevue. For 1994, this was as close as you could get to a classic 1950s domeliner in the Northwest.

Weyerhaeuser's inbound Woods Railroad train passes a freight car repair facility near the Longview mill.