Deep under the Portland zoo, a single car westbound MAX train makes its station stop.

Under Millenium Park lies the northern terminal of the Chicago South Shore electric line. CSS&SBRR certainly has some good looking juice jacks! A pleasant change from the Metra F40's.

Its a quite day in Palouse, WA and that quietness isn't broken when W&I's GP11 rolls down the middle of the street. This is one of the few places in the country where you can see 286,000lb cars ru... (more)

Two big ones dynamic down the rear of an empty coaler on Stevens Pass. The sounds of a big EMD in a canyon on the rear can be described simply as magical.

Trains and fishing, some of the finer things in life.

Amtrak 115 takes a rest on the side track of King Street Station with a Superliner coach.

Only about 10 feet from one of the last two last wig-wags in the State of Washington, the local blocks one of the major crossings in town at Kamiaken Street. PCC 4204 and a few grainers bound for ... (more)

With the crossing gate very noticibially gone in Edmonds, a WSDOT ferry employees flag the crossing for the Sounder as it creeps over the Main Street crossing at 5mph. The conductor on the previou... (more)

Finally, the Amtrak was late enough so I could get a ferry in the dock! The M/V Spokane unloads as the Cascades accelerates southward. Sadly, my old vantage point "high above" Edmonds has been o... (more)

Late summer harvest time. Knee-high lentils turn all sorts of shades of yellow and orange as they become ripe and ready for harvest. Using all three motors, the W&I moves 11 loads of fertilizer ac... (more)

The 20 and '04 wait in a small siding while 5000' of well cars are shoved backwards back into Pullman to get all three motors on the head end. Jeramey and myself watch on the rear platform for any... (more)

Tacoma's rolling techno rave sports a little holiday cheer from its mars light and numberboard. Sometimes, even a big government transit agency can have a sense of humor. Tonight, most of the New ... (more)

Making the turn to motor towards Moscow, ID at the former Pullman Junction.

Hillsboro bound!

BNSF 9164 looks like it may have a little stage fright coming out of the Cascade Tunnel.