After a long delay in Seattle's King St Station trying to get WSDOT's new Charger locomotives to link up with Mater (Cab Car), a Cascades test train arrives in Tacoma's Tacoma Dome Station. The t... (more)

Crossing the Willow Creek Trestle west of Madras, for a Photo runby. - Kudos to BNSF for allowing the runby.

A tremendous sunset goes largely unseen by the crew of this northbound BNSF freight, holding at CP 21st St.

The Empire Builder has just rolled past the Isaac Walton Inn at Essex without a whistle stop. Now crossing over the Middle Fork of the Flathead River, it's only a few minutes behind schedule as i... (more)

Union Station Tacoma, once the center of passenger operations for the NP and the GN, it's now a Federal Courthouse. Saved from the wrecking ball in the 1980's, it has since served as the inspira... (more)

One of two tiny stretches of street running in Tacoma. This one is BNSF's line, delivering a couple loads of ethanol to the refinery at the north end of "D" street. The crewmen is a keeping a c... (more)

Tacoma Rail's newest locomotive in the latest paint scheme has been delivered by Progress Rail. The unit was given a little bit of a workout, dragging the TR 2200 around the yard a bit, and was ... (more)

A northbound UP stack train rolls past Cougar as the last light of the day approaches. Nothing like a nice volcano to highlight a scene. Mt Shasta does a great job.

A trio GE's lug an empty grain train over BNSF's Scenic Sub and across the bridge at Sunset Falls. Could there be a more apt name for a subdivision? Taken as part of a photo excursion weekend. <... (more)

The Port of Olympia was the departure point for two PT KAI / Indonesian National Railways narrow gauge locomotives on 10/23/2020. CC2051326 & CC2051315 arrived damaged at Progress Rail in Tacoma,... (more)

UP's daily garbage train rolls past the BNSF Moon yard and the Temco yard tracks, along with one of Temco's durable GP9s. In the background the HMS Bounty is open for tour as part of the Tacoma T... (more)

For some reason the crew of the LPCTAC needed to turn their power. While BNSF has a turntable, I'm not sure if it's still in service and the roundhouse crew is gone by this time, so their next o... (more)

Chamber's creek is not much of a water way. Navigable for less then half a mile, yet it still warrants a bridge that opens to allow pleasure craft to move to and fro. The setting lends itself to... (more)

From rain and mud to snow in less than 30 minutes. A visit to the Slot, revealed a modest amount of snow and the need for snow shoes to reach this perch over looking the BNSF Scenic Sub.

Uniquely Pacific Northwest - Mt Rainier and a Southbound Sounder