Cascade and Columbia W/B led by PSAP 1573 & 1572 approaching Ellisforde, WA on May 5, 2025 with a mixed freight of 22 cars.

Cascade and Columbia mixed freight led by PSAP 1573 & 1572 at Tonasket, WA on May 5 with 22 cars including 15 car loads of finished lumber and 7 car loads of cement. Both units are former CNW GP15... (more)

Cascade and Columbia River, CSCD mixed freight led by PSAP 1573 & 1572 at Barker, WA with 22 carloads. This freight consisted of 15 car loads of finished lumber and 7 car loads of cement. Both uni... (more)

Cascade and Columbia Railroad with PSAP 1573 & 1572 along the Okanogan River near Keystone, WA on May 5, 2025. Train had left Oroville with 1 Propane tanker which was dropped at Ellisforde, WA, 15... (more)

Elma is the headquarters of the Puget Sound & Pacific Railroad. On this day, a GP38 lettered for the Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad sits near the maintenance facility. Both railroads are owned ... (more)

Here’s another destination for some of the west bound grain trains. The Maratha Pride is being loaded with grain at the AGP Terminal 2 at the Port of Grays harbor, in Hoquiam WA. On land, a Pu... (more)

A PSAP transfer job throttles up at Blakeslee Junction in Centrailia, WA. The two GP15's in the consist were just recently repainted in the G&W orange.

PSAP switch job was setting up some empty center-beams at the pass in Shelton, late afternoon on the first day of spring.

PSAP Backing to the cut at a customer just south of town. Later in the afternoon this job would head north to Shelton with 47 empty centerbeams for the Simpson mill.

A Puget Sound and Pacific mixed freight crosses the Wishkah River bridge in Aberdeen, WA

PSAP's Centralia Turn heads back west towards Elma,WA as it approaches Rochester,WA late in the day on 11/14/05.

After switching out loads at the Kitsap County Transfer facility the crew reverses the train over to the main track and will make the return to Shelton long hood forward.

This was my first time on the Olympic Peninsula and was largely a non-railfanning trip. But one does diverge when the opportunity arises, and I took a few minutes to explore the remnants of a the... (more)

Snow is falling in Shelton today. The Shelton turn idles near the Olympic Panel plant waiting for the Bangor job to return with the garbage train.