Under threatening skies (bad news for the next day's Big Boy run), an eastward UP manifest rumbles up the grade to Wasatch. The tail end of this train is still in the flyover tunnels near Curvo... (more)

Washington's Yakima Canyon is pretty scenic and even more so while there's still some green on the hills. An empty (as they all are here) grain train crosses the Yakima River just downstream fro... (more)

Both sides of the tunnel.... Wish I could have caught the Big Boy and company here. Pretty good eats across the Interstate at Taggart's Grill.

The Great Race To Ogden is well underway and in the way is the tiny town of Carter Wyoming. About a half mile out, the town of less than 10 people is about to become the center of the railfan u... (more)

This was to be a Skookum shot, but with her the eccentric problems, she didn't make it out this far. The Polson Lumber company #2 made for a nice substitute on a beautiful day along the Oregon Co... (more)

Just around the corner from where the Not-Quite-As-Mighty Willamette River joins the Mighty Columbia River in Portland OR, is the Columbia Grain Facility. In this scene the bulk ship Mamma Mia is... (more)

The Columbia River Belt Line Railway #7, aka The Skookum, is being nudged on to the ramp leading to the trailer that will take it to The Niles Canyon Railway in Sunol California. This unique earl... (more)

The Columbia River Belt Line Railway #7, aka The Skookum, is gently being pushed up a ramp an on to a trailer for its road trip to The Niles Canyon Railway in Sunol California.

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Dateline Tillamook Oregon…. The Columbia River Belt Line Railway #7, aka The Skookum, is all packed up and ready for its road trip to The Niles Canyon Railway in Sunol California.

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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 Puge... (more)

Ever wondered where all those west bound "earth worms" end up? Here's one place. BNSF is off loading a grain train at the EGT facility in Longview Washington, while a ship is being loaded. Soo... (more)

This is a rather unique locomotive. By design, an earlier unsaturated mallet logging steam engine. But really what makes it unique is it’s story. Built in 1909 for a Tennessee logging railroad,... (more)

Cascades 518 sprints through a golden sunset on the south Puget Sound. Just past the Steilacoom Ferry dock, it's about 15 minutes late, but right on time of the sunset.

On the eve of nearly 24 hours of snow, a Tacoma Link street car leaves Tacoma Dome Station for Tacoma's Theater District. Not long after this shot the increasing snow shut the system down.

During a brief break between snow storms that have brought a good deal of sea level snow to the Puget Sound area (to say nothing of the foot or more at higher elevations), the Amtrak Starlight rol... (more)