The old ways are the best ways. With opening a little more than a month away, Sound Transit shuts down the new line for a day of track repairs and leveling. The vehicles traveling down this... (more)

Skirting the Pacific Ocean. Beachgoers hardly notice the Coaster along the bluffs, but I'm sure the Friday evening commuters wish they were on the sandy shores o the Pacific a hundred feet ... (more)

The sun is out in full force in the Pacific Northwest as #513 begins to slow to stop in Edmonds. Bouns: can you find my shadow?

Two helpers switch the Essex yard as a stack train moves west on the main line. The Issak Walton inn stands in the background as one of the best railfanning hotels in the nation. Note the gray b... (more)

The interior of the dining car on the Amtrak Cascades Mt. Olympis trainset made by Talgo (Spain). On Seattle-South trains, its open for anyone to go into, but on Seattle-North trains its used for... (more)

The world reflects off Jeramey's glasses while he eases down the old F unit to a steady 2.9mph to grab a boxcar that BNSF wants back. A note on Mitch Goldman's comments on my last in-cab shot of t... (more)

Today was not a good day.

Working inside the heart of a magical machine. Not too often does any railroader get a chance to work fully inside an enclosed locomotive. Let alone an F unit. The covered wagons are a thing of ye... (more)

An old BN work truck comes out of the Cascade Tunnel as they finish welding some rail inside the tunnel. A few minutes later, we (2 college kids and a 30-year old, all w/ cameras, and Im wearing ... (more)

A shot in the winter off Stampede Pass is rare enough, but the plow?! The most unfriendly crew I've ever met runs the plow over the pass to move the right-of-way a little further off to the sides.... (more)

Some frost nips the shady rails and the new snow-covered Mt. Baker rises out of the north.

Too bad this isn't a real 4-6-6-4, but BNSF 4664 hits a bank of freshly plowed snow at 60mph.

Four rivals, one right of way. Rail, river, rail, Interstate. An empty Union Pacific garbage train breezes past a slow-moving grain barge from the Snake River. Both are heading towards the Rose Ci... (more)

This is Ray's favorite section of the Streetcar line. As a man from the MAX system where he could push 55mph, he loves "opening her up and seeing how fast she'll go". This straight section is the ... (more)

Big things come in big packages! A week before Christmas, we're moving an early gift for the city of Moscow: a 600,000 pound transformer! Moved on a special 12-axle depressed flat, the new ... (more)