Beach goers set up camp next to the dragging equipment detector and dodge trains all afternoon, including this Westbound stack train.

This Tacoma bound Sounder, wearing the special Tacoma livery passes the Allied Waste facility in South Seattle.

Caution Bumpy Road: This local job has a bouncy ride ahead of it when it hauls its load of a grain car and a caboose back to the yard.

My first photo on RP.net! An amtrak train is ready to leave King Street Station, Seattle.

White Pass units 90 and 90 are chained to the deck of the barge Stikine Provider enroute to Tacoma, WA for a major rebuild. CEECO will install new Cummins UK primemover rated at 1500 hp. New ele... (more)

A southbound stack train is swallowed by the massive rolling roof of Seattle's Safeco Field.

Viewed from the S Weller St bridge, the Cougar Football Sounder idles in the station after letting off a bunch of crimson clad fans.

Sound transit's most distinctive paint scheme, pictured here with two other flavors of F59PHI's, never made it on the road during my visit. Still, I was able to shoot it in the barn with the permi... (more)

The business end of BNSF's Track Measurement car, the Skagit River. This device, covered in "Caution: Laser" stickers hovers over thousands of miles of rail, checking for defects, keeping the rai... (more)

BNSF 134 is just a glimmer in large window on the back of this track geometry car which is sitting, tied down for the night while the crew gets some rest.

New rail was placed in Interbay Yard less than 24 hours before a BNSF geometry special makes surprise (at least to me) visit .

With the morning commute over, a deadhead Sounder returns to the layover yard. Amtrak's southbound Coast Starlight awaits its departure time at King Street Station.

SDRX 908 prepares to rush weary evening commuters home from Seattle's King Street station.

Suddenly, one of UP's many AC44CTE's doesn't seem so big.

Not dressed for a public appearance, Amtrak F59PHI 465 sits at Amtrak's Seattle facility, with its mangled nose cone sitting on the ground nearby. This locomotive appears to have been involved in ... (more)