BN 6720 grinds train 3 up the 1 percent grade at Leavenworth, WA, meeting an eastbound freight with a crew member ready to inspect train 3. It's spring in the Cascades, and snow still abounds on t... (more)

BN 8133 leads a mix of EMD & GE power up the east side of Stevens Pass at the east end of Berne siding, the last passing siding prior to entering the Cascade Tunnel. The heavy train has helpers as... (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)

UP could put together more interesting combinations of power than most railroads in the 1960s and 70s. Here we have SD24B 411B mated up temporarily with an NW2 as it gets hostled around the engine... (more)

Power is lined up and ready to roll next to the Argo Yard tower and offices in Seattle. UP SD40 3092 leads a trio followed by a pair of SD40-2s. The 3092 was built in August 1971, a fairly late ve... (more)

A pair of F45s with BN 6645 trailing heads through Cashmere on their way back to Wenatchee, WA. They spent their day in helper service on Stevens Pass.

A hint of Big Sky Blue betrays the GN heritage of BN GP9 1792 leading its Mansfield branch local upgrade out of the Columbia River Valley at Palisades with 40 empty 40 ft. grain boxcars in tow. Th... (more)

BN 2211, rebuilt from GN GP30 no. 3011 (built May 1963), was parked at Skykomish, WA with a rail train. It would appear from the cab that the unit may have had wreck damage at some point. BN did a... (more)

The day's last light reflects off Samish Bay as BN 6459 glides across the Colony Creek trestle at Blanchard, WA, south of Bellingham along Chuckanut Drive. The train is headed from Vancouver, BC t... (more)

An eastbound stack train on BNSF's Fallbridge Subdivision rolls through the siding at Cooks. It will get to wait for two westbounds before continuing its journey east along the Columbia River Gorg... (more)

A westbound mixed manifest on BNSF's Fallbridge Subdivision rolls through the Boughton Lumber Co mill property at Hood, Washington.

UP displayed UP 8444 at Spokane's Expo 74 Worlds Fair during the summer of 1974. This photo was my first encounter with the locomotive, and over the next 20 years there would be several more. The ... (more)

UP 2900 is mated up with another U30C at Argo Yard under the yard tower and freight offices. UP was dominated by EMD power at this time, but U28Cs, U30Cs and U50Cs would show up on occasion. As th... (more)

BN 702, an F3A, was the oldest cab unit still operating on BN in August 1979. Still retaining its 3 porthole side window, the unit had an upgraded GP style twin sealed beam headlight mounted on th... (more)