Washington & Idaho SD9 602 has 16 loads of propane and a buffer car under control as its train circles around a wheat field east of Oakesdale, WA. Fall is beginning to bloom along this former Nort... (more)

WRIX 602 leads its Washington & Idaho train north through wheat fields near Oakesdale, WA. Today's train is carrying propane loads with a covered hopper buffer. It will make it as far as North Pin... (more)

MRL SDP40 no. 290 rolls east on the point of an Eastern Washington Gateway "Scooter" grain train that originated in Coulee City, WA and will unload at an elevator near Cheney, WA for tra... (more)

BNSF 7663 heads up a Z Train westbound over Nason Creek just west of Merritt, WA as it starts its final assault on the east side of Stevens Pass. It's 5 miles to the east portal of the Cascade Tun... (more)

The first southbound Sounder is crossing the historic Milwaukee Road S-Turn trestle on its way to the Tacoma Dome Station (aka Freighthouse Square). Just to the right you can see the arch enemy o... (more)

BN 5519 leads a mix of vintage EMDs on a northbound freight at Reservation Tower in Tacoma, WA on a somewhat dreary February day in 1979. Taken from the embankment of the Milwaukee Road overpass, ... (more)

In early morning light Rayonier 14, a Baldwin 2-6-6-2 compound articulated mallet, heads south from Crane Creek reload toward the tide water log dump near Hoquiam some 40 miles away. This was the ... (more)

Rayonier 90 heads a log train southbound from a loading point near Quinault to the dump at Hoquiam. The specific location of this picture is lost in my fading memory, but this is probably near Nei... (more)

The last log train highballs Dayton during a special move to and from the Dry Sort yard with the purpose of retrieving remaining rolling stock which had been stranded since the end of 2013 after t... (more)

Union Pacific's Plummer turn with a GP-39 and GP-60 for power, easing in to the small hamlet of Manito, Washington, on the Union Pacific's Plummer branch... Manito is a Junction with the original... (more)

And the wait begins...after a trip up the hill shoving at the rear of this log train, Jerry situates the 1202 on the main while logs are removed from the loaded train parked on the pass. It may ta... (more)

Chehalis Western empty log train makes its way up the former Milwaukee Road 3.3% Tacoma Gulch grade. If you look closely you can see two crew members standing on the front pilot steps of the lead... (more)

The Chelatchie Prairie Railroad runs from Chelatchie Prairie, Washington to Heisson, Washington... They are an all volunteer group of people who have restored this wonderful 2-8-2T... Today they w... (more)

Southbound at Yacolt Creek. The last rays of golden sunlight filter through a breaking overcast as Crossett Western #10 charges south across the little wooden trestle at Yacolt Creek.

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TR 7001 and 7002 tiptoe down a +-3% grade in some of the steepest parts of the "Gulch", to pickup the rest of their train. Former EMD Demonstrators 1211 and 1212, they are now wearing t... (more)