Engineer Larry leans close to the 3004's mirror to look back over his train as it trundles through the rolling Palouse region of eastern Washington.

Rumors of its demise have been mildly exaggerated! Following the recent decision to route through traffic away from the Yakima Valley and Stampede Subs, BNSF planned a series of Electronic... (more)

Fire-breathing monster: Flames escape the oil-fueled firebox of Rayonier #2 as she struggles up the 3.7% grade into Mineral. Fully aware of this phenomenon, the Railroad: Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad
Locomotive: 3 Truck Willamette
Location: Mineral, Washington, USA
Locomotive #: Rayonier 2
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: October 02, 2010

Engineer Greg Weirich displays an "ear to ear grin" as the MRL OCS flashes through Carkeek Park shortly before sunset.

On a crisp, glorious autumn morning, Saratoga & North Creek Railway's train No. 186, the New York Express, rumbles across the roaring, rushing, mist-laden Sacandaga River with a mostly-empt... (more)

A loaded CP coal train cruises downgrade along the Thompson River near Spences Bridge, working westward on CN's Ashcroft Sub in the railroads' Fraser/Thompson Co-Production area.

Two ancient EMDs smoke it up as they work hard to drag a modern-era empty unit grain train up the 1.67% grade at MP 34 on the W&I's mainline through the Palouse region. It certainly was strange s... (more)

Below sea level: A northbound light rail train briefly ducks below sea level as it reaches the nadir of the bore between International District and Pioneer Square Stations in the Downtown S... (more)

Final Flight: The last train of Boeing 737 fuselages to run south from Snohomish to Renton on BNSF's Woodinville Subdivision crosses Batt Slough on a typical murky Northwest winter morning.... (more)

Seeming to glow in perfect late-evening light, this trio of massive SD9043MACs effortlessly roll a long train of Canadian grain through the Wallula Gap. The gap is a geologic feature that began f... (more)

Having never lived near a large body of water before, I had no direct experience with how awe-inspiring sunsets in such regions could be. Shortly after moving to the Seattle area, I found out in ... (more)

To this day I have no idea why two former CP MLWs, at the time marked QGRY 4222 & 4242, were parked on a stub track near the LNA&C's interchange with NS, nor what ever became of the units.

Happy 100th birthday, Union Station! Opened in May, 1911 by Union Pacific predecessor Oregon-Washington Railway & Navigation Company and joined soon thereafter by the Chicago, Milwaukee, S... (more)

In a timeless image that could have been taken at any point in the last two decades, a gorgeous summer morning finds a pair green Geeps easily handling a 19-car empty Boeing train eastward ... (more)

Portland-bound potash loads join the Columbia River at Wallula, Washington, a location which has long been a center of commerce. In the early 1800s this was the site of Fort Nez Percés, an impor... (more)