BN 8185 has its train stopped near the Skykomish, WA depot on the siding to allow helpers to be removed. Having made the trip from Wenatchee over Stevens Pass, the train will continue to Seattle o... (more)

BN 2220 runs west from Skykomish as a caboose hop opreating as a turn out of Everett, WA. The former CB&Q GP30 running GN style, long hood first on the former GN mainline, is accompanied by a form... (more)

A track inspection speeder was parked on the main outside the icicle encumbered BN depot at Easton, WA on the former NP mainline over Stampede Pass. The speeder nine years after the BN merger reta... (more)

Don't let the blue sky mislead you, it's January in the Pacific Northwest and the reflection pond reveals the truth about precipitation at this time of year. Former NP F9, BN 842, reflects on its ... (more)

BN NW2 465 and SW1200 216 sun themselves outside the Interbay roundhouse in Seattle. The 465 sported a steam era headlight, and the former GN switcher dates back to July 1939. BN 216 is a former N... (more)

Business car Columbia River was assigned to Seattle in the early 1980s and when not being used found its home on a stub track at King St. Station. The station served Amtrak and now also serves Sou... (more)

Crew change time at Scenic, WA viewed from the Hwy 2 overpass just west of the Cascade Tunnel. The eastbound freight has pulled up to the end of the siding as its crew has run out of time. A new c... (more)

Although BN emphasized its Inside Gateway between Seattle and California, they also operated a Seattle based runthrough train to Southern Pacific's Brooklyn Yard in Portland and on to Eugene & Ca... (more)

After arriving at UP's Argo Yard, Seattle, the quartet of E units that will head the Old Timers' Special east, have cut off their train and are being positioned at the diesel facility for their ov... (more)

UP GP30 842 along with a GP30B & SD24B hold at Black River Jct., Seattle, WA, while a UP deadhead move rolls by with UP E9A 951, The Preamble Express, trailing. The deadhead move will leave the fo... (more)

Five miles south of Picnic Point is a one track bottleneck in Edmonds, Washington. On low cloud days like this whenever a coal train is stopped there, it can be heard accelerating back to track s... (more)

EMD 462 and its traveling locomotive test set were in Auburn, WA in fall 1977 doing test work on their SD45-X on Stampede Pass. The pass was a favorite location for EMD to test mountain grades on ... (more)

BN 2505 (X-GN GP35) and two X-NP GP9s have a Seattle to Everett and points north train in tow along Puget Sound at Meadowdale, just north of Edmonds prior to sunset. I experimented with an orange ... (more)

A pair of former GN GP9s, nos. 1804 & 1764, park at Newport, WA between assignments. The lack of nose stripes is because these units were set up long hood forward. The former GN mainline still cel... (more)

BN 6720 grinds train 3 up the 1 percent grade at Leavenworth, WA, meeting an eastbound freight with a crew member ready to inspect train 3. It's spring in the Cascades, and snow still abounds on t... (more)