A 15200 horsepower fire in the Eastern Washington evening.

Three locomotives struggle on the slight incline towards the State Line. This fully loaded grainer is well over 100 cars and will later go down though the Columbia River with its load for export. ... (more)

A mixed train streaks across Eastern Washington making a good 55mph. Highway 395 carries trucks and cars between Pasco and Ritzville in the background.

The last Sounder pushes out for the night.

This Amtrak Cascade set has earned another hard day's work going between Portland and Seattle. The CABBAGE car and its set spend the night in King Streets southbound tracks.

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

The plow continues to move the right-of-way over the side of the high bridge on BNSF's Stampede line. (Thats right Northwesteners, plow in the winter on Stampede. I'll let that sink in for a while... (more)

A shot in the winter off Stampede Pass is rare enough, but the plow?! The most unfriendly crew I've ever met runs the plow over the pass to move the right-of-way a little further off to the sides.... (more)

Audi vs. streetcar. Who will be the winner?

Snow is coming down hard and fast today as BNSF 4467 pulls the Z under one of Stevens' last signal bridges.

The crew changes and prepares to go south on the only Amtrak Cascades that goes from Bellingham to Portland.

A post card shot. BNSF 5003 dynamics down the hill and gets ready to pass BNSF 1069 which is waiting in the hole at Merritt. As a bonus, the engineer toots his horn many times to the photographers... (more)

Twilight approaches and so does BNSF 1069. This stack train makes its way out of the hole at Merritt to have its turn at the hill. Note the headlight glow on the snow.

Perched high above Nason Creek, BNSF 808 sneaks up on us and pops out of tunnel 14.7. I think Mr. Burwash would approve.

An Athearn model makes an appearance on Stevens Pass.