Milwaukee Road E80 is viewed from the cab of MILW E81 at Tacoma Tide Flats Yard. The steeple cabs and boxcab in the background are stored awaiting scrapping after electric operations ceased in Mon... (more)

MILW 81A, a freshly repainted F7A unit waits at Tacoma to assist a train up Tacoma Hill. This view was taken through the cab window of GE Steeple Cab E81 which was awaiting scrapping after being r... (more)

GE Steeple Cabs E81 and E82 from Milwaukee F7A 81A at Tacoma Tide Flats Yard in February 1975. The electric switchers built between 1916 and 1919 are awaiting the scrapper's torch, while the F uni... (more)

Milwaukee steeple cabs E80, E81 and E82 along with F7A 81A are parked at Tacoma's Tide flats Yard. The electrics were retired June 15, 1974 and are waiting to be scrapped. The F unit, freshly repa... (more)

MILW E81 along with E80 and E82 have reached the end of the line at Tacoma Tide flats Yard. These are three of the four Steeple Cab ES-2 class switchers Milwaukee owned. The E80 and E81 were built... (more)

TR 7001 and 7002 tiptoe down a +-3% grade in some of the steepest parts of the "Gulch", to pickup the rest of their train. Former EMD Demonstrators 1211 and 1212, they are now wearing t... (more)

Former EMD Demonstrators 1211 and 1212 are now wearing the colors of Tacoma Rail for the duration of their 5 year lease. These may be the last most modern units to cross this trestle as it is sch... (more)

Oops! BN GP9 1853 stubbed its toe at the Tacoma turntable, and several unhappy BN employees get the privilege of getting her back on track. I don't envy the guy underneath the coupler! 1853 began ... (more)

Famed Daylight 4-8-4 No. 4449 spends the night with power from Tacoma Rail as it awaits its next assignment for the 2011 National Railway Historical Society convention.

UP 4814 leads three more SD70Ms around the tight curve in downtown Tacoma with a Seattle bound stack train. UP runs on BNSF trackage at this location and will return to its own rails in about one ... (more)

Geeps and switchers outside Northern Pacific’s brick roundhouse at Tacoma, Wash. April 11, 1969.

A Union Pacific intermodal train heads past the Temco grain silos at the south end of Commencement Bay. The fog has receded just enough to reveal a ship loading at the silos.

A Tacoma Link streetcar/light rail vehicle heads away from the camera and towards Tacoma's Union Station. The station is no longer used by rail and is now a federal courthouse.

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)

One of ODOT's new "Mater" cab car sports a custom "paint job". Somebody needs to wash these things more frequently. They're already beauty challenged, a coat of grime doesn't help, or maybe it d... (more)