The Port of Olympia was the departure point for two PT KAI / Indonesian National Railways narrow gauge locomotives on 10/23/2020. CC2051326 & CC2051315 arrived damaged at Progress Rail in Tacoma,... (more)

The Port of Olympia was the departure point for two PT KAI / Indonesian National Railways narrow gauge locomotives on 10/23/2020. CC2051326 & CC2051315 arrived damaged at Progress Rail in Tacoma,... (more)

TEMCO employees are operating two locomotives (EFX 1611 with slug 219s and SW9 185) to unload a grain train. Just arriving is another grain train that will terminate at the facility, while a SB ... (more)

With California wildfire smoke tinted sun for a background, the UP/CP oil train is creeping across the approach to Bridge 14. The dispatcher just "talked by" the crew against a red sign... (more)

With a smoky sunset aligned with Bridge 14, this UP Oil train tiptoes gingerly across the bridge, just in case.... The dispatcher just "talked by" the crew against a red signal, as the bridge is... (more)

Wildfire smoke has returned to the Puget Sound, at the cost of other's misery, we get an interesting sunset. Just in time is this UP oil train from Canada, complete with Heritage unit CP 7012. T... (more)

Coming to a CN Yard near you! I believe this is an new mother/slug set that in an old CN paint scheme. Not sure what the model designations are. The 7600 is lettered as GY-430A and the 600 as ... (more)

The sodium vapor lights of the Muni Yard mix with smoke from California, Oregon and Washington wildfires to lend an eerie feel to this scene. A Tacoma Rail job is shoving a cut of military cars pa... (more)

On an evening of smoke filled skies a Tacoma Rail job is delivering a cut of military cars to the North Intermodal Yard for loading on yet to arrive RO-RO ship. An interesting load of the new rob... (more)

Here is the PASTAC just getting back to the remains of it's train, after the crew made a setout in the Tacoma Yard. It wasn't clear to me, why only part of the train was setout, as the symbol ind... (more)

Oil, Intermodal and vehicles are the current mainstay of Tacoma Rail. Here with a wonderful sunset on Mt Rainier, a Tacoma Rail job using an SD40 and MP15AC are switching one of the vehicle loadi... (more)

Still known as the "Log Yard", this fairly small yard adjunct to the BNSF Tacoma Yard, now mainly handles auto racks. At the moment of this shot, two tracks were free. Just enough for t... (more)

This is a BNSF Vehicle train, led by an NS unit, with a CP 8127 as a tail-end DPU.

Steam Powered Rotary OY is clearing the rails on the Cumbres and Toltec. First time in 23 years, maybe the last. Hats of to everyone involved, it was well run and a great day.

Tacoma Rail's twice weekly job 103 works the South Tacoma industries under the occasionally watchful eye of Mt Rainier on a beautiful winter day. The Feed Mill isn't quite finished but they ne... (more)