Horsepower droppings.

The light at the end of the tunnel is, in fact, an approaching train: In less than a second, a westbound will emerge from the darkness of Cascade Tunnel into the gloom of a twilit evening. The h... (more)

It's just another winter night on the former Great Northern mainline as a meet is made at Scenic. The crew of westbound Z-CHCSSE1-12A is happy to have successfully completed another trip through ... (more)

Deep in the Cascade mountains on BNSF's Scenic sub, 4 BNSF GEs are putting out lots of smoke as they lift another trainload of import containers up the 2.2% grade. The locomotives will soon have t... (more)

Snow falls as this freight waits its turn to enter the Cascade Tunnel.

One of many great locations along the Scenic Sub, Deception Creek is much easier to reach when the only snow around is on the nearby mountain peaks. BNSF has kindly provided a Z train to complet... (more)

Nothing but GE, as life has been for a while. A little extra power this weekend, supplied by 3 Boeing 737's, moves a holiday weekend Z over Stevens Pass.

Peek-a-boo! The smiley face scratched into the grime on the nose door of BNSF 1090 expresses its relief at seeing sunlight once again following a 7.8-mile journey through the darkness of Cascade ... (more)

A change of seasons: The daily morning eastbound Z from South Seattle charges upgrade towards Cascade Tunnel on a wet and dreary Day in North America 2007. The bright colors of autumn's s... (more)

A working roster shot of one of the new ES44C4s. the cylinders in the middle of the truck is what GE calls "Dynamic Weight Management." The center axle doesn't have a traction motor. These cylinde... (more)

The morning fog has yet to clear as an eastbound stack train approaches the west portal of Cascade Tunnel.

Its a quiet night on Stevens Pass. No trains, no snow falling, no sounds. The only thing that breaks the eery silence is a little ballast regulator-turned-snow-plow as it struggles to move back th... (more)

Beacon seems quite fitting.

Green signal and white lights giving the clear into Cascade Tunnel. Outside in Scenic, a MoW worker tries to unstick a rather frozen switch as a big BNSF stack train thunders by. The micro plow is... (more)

Photographer Stephen De Vight waves to the engineer of an empty coal train. It stopped for a while in Scenic before continuing over the hill eastward.