With a wildfire smoke sunset in the background, #14, running pretty much on time, is pulling out of the Tacoma Dome Station and across the new Sound Transit Tacoma Trestle.

This is a BNSF stack train at the Port of Tacoma, delivering a train to Tacoma Rail. As part of normal operations, this train comes west across Stevens Pass, through Seattle and down (south) to... (more)

Still trying to figure this one out. About 4 pm, this intermodal train was shoving in to the yard, or at least that what it sound like over the radio. The shove is from right to left. On the le... (more)

Tacoma Rail's Hill Job is returning home from work at Frederickson. The train is just coming off of the Lakewood Sub and crossing over the BNSF and UP Seattle Subs. Off in the distance a UP sta... (more)

Tacoma Rail's Hill job makes a late appearance on Sunday morning, crossing the Sound Transit Tacoma bridge, where once stood the historic Milwaukee S-Curve wooden trestle. The acknowledgment pres... (more)

Tacoma Rails Hill begins the ascend of Tacoma Hill and is coming out of the curves in between and under 3 different freeways. Todays train dealing made the hill easily even with the wet rail being... (more)

Tacoma Rails Hill Job is deep into Tacoma Hill starting the first of many S curves up to the top of the Hill. Todays train has no problems lifting 20 cars up the hill with Tacoma Rails SD70ACe-P4 ... (more)

BNSF 1456, pulls to the south end of the old BN log yard in Tacoma, to set out the auto racks they brought from Kent.

Uphill. Service over the Point Defiance Bypass/Lakeview Subdivision had recently returned when Amtrak Train 11 (Coast Starlight) crossed over Pacific Avenue in Tacoma, Washington on Monday,... (more)

Thanks to a good friend of mine we were able to get a shop tour at Tacoma rail. Here is another photo I took in the shops.

Thanks to a good friend of mine we were able to get a shop tour at Tacoma rail. Here is one of the photos I took while we were backing into the shed.

BN 2885 leads a northbound freight out of Burlington Northern's ( ex -Northern Pacific ) yard in Tacoma Washington.

A Loram Rail Grinder puts on a light (and noise) show for the residents of Tacoma and Ruston, at the site of the form Asarco Smelter. Tunnel #1, just under 400' long, is the lesser known tunnel i... (more)

A scrap pile of wheels engulfs the cab of an Alco RS-11 at Joseph Simon & Sons scrap yard located in the Tacoma tideflats and the final resting place for a number of BN, MILW and UP locomotives ov... (more)

UP 928 leads UP's "Old Timers Special" deadhead movement through Tacoma en route to Seattle where it will be loaded for an excursion through the Columbia Gorge, over the Blue Mountains a... (more)