Road power consists sandwich an NW2 switcher near the Argo yard tower and freight offices. UP 3288 is a snoot SD40-2, while a UP only consist made up of UP 406, an SDP35, a GP20B and a GP30B, is r... (more)
A rainy summer day in Seattle did not dampen spirits of UP employees as the railroad operated Family Days round trip train rides between Argo Yard in Seattle and Black River Jct. This stretch of t... (more)
Before a Fairhaven transportation center was built south of downtown, Bellingham relied on these two former Great Northern structures for accessing GN, BN and later Amtrak passenger service. BN an... (more)
Couldn't you find a shorter buffer car? Loaded oils follow the river along the Washington Oregon state line, then return empty over Stevens Pass. This one is climbing the one percent grade of th... (more)
Geologically speaking, the Trinidad Loop is fairly young, owing its shape to glacial flooding about 13,000 years ago. It's hard to imagine these hills as being shaped in the same process that cre... (more)