Running around 90 minutes off schedule, the Portland section of the Empire Builder rolls through the Columbia River Gorge. The train is about 53 miles into its journey to Spokane, where it will be... (more)

The town of Skykomish and the BNSF continue to rebuild and upgrade infrastructure after last year's fire, evidence of its damage can be seen on the hill in the background. Locomotive crane BN 9755... (more)

Amtrak 519 heads south past Clark's Point on a sunny evening in Bellingham.

Saint Paul & Pacific Northwest Railway's train to Waneta is north of Northport inching closer to the border with Canada. STPP runs this train six days a week out of Kettle Falls, leaving at 6 AM n... (more)

Bridge 14 sunset

A late night meet occurs in downtown Monroe as the headlights of an Eastbound Z train reflect off westbound autoracks.

After dropping off some flatcars at Scenic, the boing local returns light back to Everett crossing over the raging Sunset Falls.

Shortly after stalling, the final Tacoma Rail train headed to Frederickson, WA gets moving again.

A morning mixed manifest follows the Columbia River around the Base of Wind Mountain as the Sun Rises.

As a C&NW employee located in the Seattle area if was always heart warming to see C&NW locos come to town, mostly on Union Pacific. This trio led by Fast Forty 8037 featured CNW 6802, their second... (more)

UP DD35A 84 and a pair of SD24Bs make a move to attach to a southbound freight at Argo Yard, Seattle on a rainy August day that looks more like November. This was Family Days weekend and a small l... (more)

Westbound coal train at Maryhill.

Westbound garbage train at Maryhill.

Westbound local at Fishtrap.

UP GP38-2 2038 leads a trio of unique B units, GP30B, SD24B and GP9 or 20B, south next to Days Island en route to Portland from Seattle on BN owned trackage. UP had an interesting fleet of motive ... (more)