It wasn't unusual for 'rails' to chalk their inside jokes on each other's locomotives. In this case, 'swine' is a play on SD9 and the hoghead's nickname. What is unusual in this photo however is ... (more)

Stacy Yard, floodlights, fog, ..and goats. A single SW1000 could pull 9000 tons between the UP yard interchange and Stacy as long as all the switches were lined and everyone else stayed out of th... (more)

Seattle Skies. The sky was overcast, but It was still early in the morning when Amtrak Coast Starlight (Train 11) was getting ready to depart King Street Station in Seattle, Washington on M... (more)

This little critter was ordered by the Department of Energy in the 1940s and used in the construction of the Hanford Nuclear Site. I can remember it sitting in this spot since at least the early ... (more)

F3(A) 6501C with F3(B) 6501B and F5(A) 6505A photographed at Seattle, Washington in August 1961, wearing NP's two-tone green and white passenger livery. Photo by H.G. Benton, photo part of my ... (more)

UP 842 on a southbound freight is holding at Black River Jct. siding as UP 928 leads the "Old Timers Special" deadhead equipment move past en route to Argo Yard, Seattle, where it will b... (more)

UP baggage car 5716 is part of the "Old Timers Special" deadheading to Seattle at Black River Jct., south of downtown. Note the viewing safety gates and OTS logo. Passengers can enjoy a ... (more)

UP 842 waits in the siding at Black River Jct. in south Seattle as the last car of the UP "Old Timers Special" deadhead move rolls by.

BN NW2 465 and SW1200 216 sun themselves outside the Interbay roundhouse in Seattle. The 465 sported a steam era headlight, and the former GN switcher dates back to July 1939. BN 216 is a former N... (more)

Business car Columbia River was assigned to Seattle in the early 1980s and when not being used found its home on a stub track at King St. Station. The station served Amtrak and now also serves Sou... (more)

Although BN emphasized its Inside Gateway between Seattle and California, they also operated a Seattle based runthrough train to Southern Pacific's Brooklyn Yard in Portland and on to Eugene & Ca... (more)

After arriving at UP's Argo Yard, Seattle, the quartet of E units that will head the Old Timers' Special east, have cut off their train and are being positioned at the diesel facility for their ov... (more)

UP GP30 842 along with a GP30B & SD24B hold at Black River Jct., Seattle, WA, while a UP deadhead move rolls by with UP E9A 951, The Preamble Express, trailing. The deadhead move will leave the fo... (more)

Fred Tolan and his Washington-Oregon Shippers Assn. were very influential in the Pacific Northwest in controlling which railroad got traffic. One movement they controlled was inbound shipments of ... (more)

No other railroad in North America other than UP could put this combo together. UP GP30B is mated up with an Omaha built GP20B and an SDP35, parked at Argo Yard, Seattle, waiting to be attached to... (more)