After ducking under the E 26th Street overpass, MRSR's NP 7012A returns with its passenger consist after a short trip up Tacoma Hill during a weekend event at Freight House Square.

Working up Tacoma Hill MRSR's newly rebuilt Polson Logging Company mikado hauls a passenger special during an event in Tacoma, WA

Viewed from the cab, workers apply the finishing touch of securing a center-beam "Home Depot" load of plywood while the 900 waits to move it over to the PSAP spur. Permission OK'd to be on the pro... (more)

Conductor Jerry Miller puts together an afternoon lumber train of A-frames at Mill 3. Shortly after we will take the cars up the hill to Mill 5. Permission OK'd to ride.

The 1202 was moving center-beams to storage at Knight's Siding. Spring blossoms are finally beginning to appear on the trees.

Beautiful spring day for a train ride on the Simpson Railroad! We have just come up the hill from Shelton bringing a forklift-on-flat-car. Doing a run-around at the south pass to shove the load in... (more)

No logs have come in from the water for awhile and the only train today was this move to bring a forklift up the hill from Shelton on a flat car. Here engineer Stick gets ready to unload the carg... (more)

It was a slow day for the crew and the stable was full early in the afternoon. The 1202 is the first engine, then the 1201. Just in from the rain is the 1200, and the 900 occupies the stall next... (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.

In an area where the railroad runs through deep woods STC 1200 steps into a sunlit corner on its way back to Shelton from the Dayton dry-sort yard. The afternoon was a very pleasant respite after... (more)

The 1202 is on the end of a log train moving through the back yards of downtown Shelton at the beginning of a trip uphill to Dayton. The bridge is the new one which, in February 2010, replaced th... (more)

The afternoon job coasts around the corner near the Olympic Panel Plant gate. Seven units on the head end today from the hodge-podge roster include two FEC GP40s, the DGNO 4018, PSAP 2099, the tw... (more)

In the last hour of sunlight an eastbound empty grainer passes through pastoral Winton at the mothballed Longfibre mill.

This location is where the railroad runs adjacent to the Shelton - Matlock Highway. They've been using three locomotives lately to move logs to the dry sort yard at Dayton, one up front, two on t... (more)

The 900 returns to town, long hood forward, with a train of empty log cars. The location is just beyond city limits near a gravel mining operation.