On a beautiful spring morning, a loaded coal train is stretched across Bridge 37.0, through Delta Jct. and along the south bank of the Snohomish River on the Bayside Main. After loading at Spring... (more)

A loaded coal train heads north out of Everett, Washington in heavy fog bound for the Canadian border at Blaine. From there the train will continue to Vancouver, B.C. where a Canadian National cre... (more)

It's not so common to see an SD40-2 and an SD9 leading a through freight on the Scenic Subdivision these days. Both of the engines were online as well! Here they are seen rolling east through the ... (more)

Northbound Everett Turn emerges from the downtown tunnel and passes under Hewitt Avenue, moments away from Delta Junction and passage to Delta Yard behind ex-NP F7A 752 and an ex-GN GP9.

A Herzog work train pauses while a backhoe repositions itself on top of the gondolas during a trenching project for new fiber optic cable installation at Howarth Park in Everett, WA. This effort i... (more)

Southbound BNSF #5663 skirts the Puget Sound shoreline as it drags a train of empty coal porters from Canada on a long journey back to the Powder River Basin in Wyoming via the Fallbridge Sub.

Westbound BNSF #4492 leads a hot-shot intermodal train along Everett's shoreline enroute to Seattle on a chilly March afternoon.

Having squirmed its way through the Cascade mountains, the Empire Builder can now stretch its legs across open trestles before slowing for the stop in Everett. Only another hour to the end of the... (more)

BNSF has been running their monster grain trains to the West Coast with DPUs placed at several points in the consist. For the return journey, all the power has been piled on the front, as witnes... (more)

With the standard two units up front and two on the rear, another empty Roberts Bank coal train moves out to conquer Stevens Pass on the way back to Wyoming for another load of export coal. This ... (more)

Tall tales and beer drinking by the crew of the Homer Go Lively aren't interrupted by the loud passge of BN's northbound #644 freight, the Everett-Sumas turn, as it crosses Steamboat Slough betwee... (more)

Boeing aircraft assemblies that arrive by sea at the Port of Everett are off-loaded onto a barge, then moved across the harbor to this dock, recently opened near the bottom of BNSF's five-percent-... (more)

Recrewing an empty Roberts Bank coal train before assaulting Stevens Pass. "Don't forget that jug of coffee -- we're gonna need it!" The two units on the point are assisted by two more in distri... (more)

Every photo is supposed to have a story that goes with it, and this one is about an everyday event that didn't quite unfold as it normally does. // One warm summer evening, BNSF's daily garbage... (more)

On Independence Day 2007, a friend gave me a heads-up that the GrandLuxe train was working its way westward across Washington. Figuring on a mid-afternoon arrival in Everett, I headed to Harborvi... (more)