Some Interlay employee had a little fun with some of the soon to be retired SD45s making a "Rocky Lives" stencil and applying it to several units. This unit was done operating and featur... (more)

BN SD45s 6428 & 6555 are accompanied by GP9 BN 1702 (chop nosed) and SW1200 BN 187 at Seattle's Interlay roundhouse and turntable. For the SD45s, this period of time was their twilight and soon LM... (more)

Speedy Delivery. An eastbound (northbound) empty trash train led by former Santa Fe SD75s and a GP60 zips by Picnic Point in Edmonds.

BN 8159 leads an eastbound intermodal train onto double track at MP 18 in Edmonds, WA on its ways between Seattle and the climb over Stevens Pass for the trip to Chicago. BNSF has graded between E... (more)

BN 6599's head end brakeman inspects BN 8159 and its eastbound train as it enters double track just north of the Edmonds station at MP 18 along Puget Sound. This location was a bottleneck for BN a... (more)

Eastbound auto train at west switch Fishtrap on the Lakeside sub.

Westbound grain train at west switch Babb on the Lakeside sub.

Westbound grain train at Anderson Road near Cheney, WA on the Lakeside sub.

Former MP unit.

A quintet of UP GP38-2s lead by UP 2049 idle the night away at the Argo Yard engine facility in Seattle in the company of a couple NW2s and a few cabooses. In the mid 1970s the slogan "Depend... (more)

Road power consists sandwich an NW2 switcher near the Argo yard tower and freight offices. UP 3288 is a snoot SD40-2, while a UP only consist made up of UP 406, an SDP35, a GP20B and a GP30B, is r... (more)

A rainy summer day in Seattle did not dampen spirits of UP employees as the railroad operated Family Days round trip train rides between Argo Yard in Seattle and Black River Jct. This stretch of t... (more)

Before a Fairhaven transportation center was built south of downtown, Bellingham relied on these two former Great Northern structures for accessing GN, BN and later Amtrak passenger service. BN an... (more)

Couldn't you find a shorter buffer car? Loaded oils follow the river along the Washington Oregon state line, then return empty over Stevens Pass. This one is climbing the one percent grade of th... (more)

Geologically speaking, the Trinidad Loop is fairly young, owing its shape to glacial flooding about 13,000 years ago. It's hard to imagine these hills as being shaped in the same process that cre... (more)