Unloaded from a ship in Vancouver WA, these Vestas wind turbines are destined for Canada. more)

Hawks, Bald Eagles, an occasional jumping fish, help to pass the time until the train arrives. An empty coal train that we first shot back in Monroe on the other side of the mountains, is what w... (more)

For the past 20 or 30 minutes, the exhaust fans have been howling and red/white checkered door has been closed. A strobe over the door starts flashing and it's show time. The door slowly opens a... (more)

BNSF 4689 leads this posse of 12 units into the sunset, rounding one of the many curves along the Tacoma Narrows of the Puget Sound, at the south end of Steilacoom.

For the past 20 minutes, we've been watching a tiny speck of light, some 7 miles away, gradually grow into a beacon illuminating the last of the exhaust still billowing out of the west portal of t... (more)

The FRED light of the westbound train has faded out of sight, just past the eastbound in the hole nearly a mile a way. Behind me, the exhaust is still billowing out of the west portal of the Cas... (more)

From rain and mud to snow in less than 30 minutes. A visit to the Slot, revealed a modest amount of snow and the need for snow shoes to reach this perch over looking the BNSF Scenic Sub.

Borrowed Light! A rare opportunity to light up the bridge at Sunset Falls presented it self during this years Tracks In The Snow event. Quite an adventure packing in and out 4 lights and batteri... (more)

My heartfelt thanks to whoever put this coal train together with the DPU facing the "right" way. A couple days of no rain and fairly clear skies (clear for the PNW), and this scene comes togeth... (more)

The second Mt Rainier Scenic Railroad's triple header excursion featuring the recently restored Willamette. In fact, she's not quite finished. That's not a stainless steel boiler jacket, it's ju... (more)

How many railroaders does it take to turn a locomotive? Well if you're using an armstrong turntable to turn a SW1200, apparently it takes four. With the major part of the railroad out of servic... (more)

Full Moon over Steilacoom! A flash freezes the image of the locomotive in the exposure on a nice clear starry night.

On a beautiful fall afternoon, Cascades 509 pulls in to the station at King St, in downtown Seattle.

The latest in my "Mt. Rainier and Trains from Across the Sound" series. A late Cascades 516 has just rolled through the signals at CP Pioneer and past the Chamber's Bay Golf course and it's sign... (more)

The passenger's aboard Cascades 509 have just emerged from about a minute of darkness, to be treated to a great view of the Tacoma Narrows on the Puget Sound. But they can't see what we can... Mt... (more)