TEMCO employees are operating two locomotives (EFX 1611 with slug 219s and SW9 185) to unload a grain train. Just arriving is another grain train that will terminate at the facility, while a SB ... (more)

MRL 4300 & 4301 waiting for their short journey to CEECO and their first coat of MRL Blue. First new locomotives for MRL.

Here is the PASTAC just getting back to the remains of it's train, after the crew made a setout in the Tacoma Yard. It wasn't clear to me, why only part of the train was setout, as the symbol ind... (more)

Here in 2018, more than 100 years from the start of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad and nearly 40 years after it's demise, is the ghost of the Milwaukee Road. Tucked away in a corner o... (more)

The Columbia River Belt Line Railway #7, aka The Skookum, is being nudged on to the ramp leading to the trailer that will take it to The Niles Canyon Railway in Sunol California. This unique earl... (more)

What a start to a predicted week of sunny dry weather in western Washington! With Mt. Rainier in full splendor, the first Northbound afternoon Sounder heads back to Seattle for another load of c... (more)

An evening with a stunning sunset over Mt Rainier and the South Puget Sound, was lacking one element, trains. So I was forced to wait until after dark for the first train. I've also been wonderi... (more)

Polson Logging Company's #2 is back at what it was meant to do, hauling a logging train. A photo charter over the Oregon Scenic Railroad, formerly the Port of Tillamook Bay RR.

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The last northbound Sounder train crosses the new Sounder bridge, where once stood the historic Milwaukee Road S-Curve trestle. In a few days, Main 1 (right) will be connected to the platform t... (more)

Tacoma Rails powered and signaled switches light a path for the crew of the BNSF STPTAC to use in setting out their train. Meanwhile, a TR crew works a cut of auto racks.

Time for a tire change! Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad's West Fork Lumber #91 is being tuned up for the fast approaching Memorial Day weekend. A couple of home built rigs, and lot of manpower is n... (more)

Tacoma Rail's Hill Job is returning home from work at Frederickson. The train is just coming off of the Lakewood Sub and crossing over the BNSF and UP Seattle Subs. Off in the distance a UP sta... (more)

UP's I-TAG3 is crossing the UP bridge across the Puyallup River just outside CP Reservation, where it will join the BNSF's Seattle Sub. At this point they are still putting their train together, ... (more)

Installing a prebuilt switch for a new main. Only 4 more tracks to go!!

Chasing the Toledo Hauler... From inside the historic covered bridge at Chitwood, OR. Click Here for a shot of the Tol... (more)