A track inspection speeder was parked on the main outside the icicle encumbered BN depot at Easton, WA on the former NP mainline over Stampede Pass. The speeder nine years after the BN merger reta... (more)

Don't let the blue sky mislead you, it's January in the Pacific Northwest and the reflection pond reveals the truth about precipitation at this time of year. Former NP F9, BN 842, reflects on its ... (more)

BN NW2 465 and SW1200 216 sun themselves outside the Interbay roundhouse in Seattle. The 465 sported a steam era headlight, and the former GN switcher dates back to July 1939. BN 216 is a former N... (more)

Business car Columbia River was assigned to Seattle in the early 1980s and when not being used found its home on a stub track at King St. Station. The station served Amtrak and now also serves Sou... (more)

Crew change time at Scenic, WA viewed from the Hwy 2 overpass just west of the Cascade Tunnel. The eastbound freight has pulled up to the end of the siding as its crew has run out of time. A new c... (more)

Although BN emphasized its Inside Gateway between Seattle and California, they also operated a Seattle based runthrough train to Southern Pacific's Brooklyn Yard in Portland and on to Eugene & Ca... (more)

BN U33C 5756 leads an A-B-A of F9s into Little Falls yard at Little Falls, MN. Little Falls was a junction between the former NP mainline from Minneapolis to Fargo and the line north to Brainerd a... (more)

BN 9901 was rebuilt by Morrison-Knudson from CB&Q 9938 for commuter service between Chicago and Aurora, IL. CBQ 9938A was built in December 1949 as an E8A. It was acquired by Illinois Central in 1... (more)

By July 1973, Amtrak was repainting passenger units acquired from the member railroads. Here we have an A-B-A set of recently painted E9s acquired from Milwaukee Road. Amtrak used the BN Harrison ... (more)

The engineer for Amtrak's North Coast Hiawatha checks things over as the train loads passengers at Minneapolis. At start up, Amtrak chose to make one stop in the Twin Cities and decided on Minneap... (more)

A maintenance crew goes to work with UP SD40 no. 3066 assigned to handle a work train based at Meacham, OR on top of the Blue Mountains. UP invested heavily in their track maintenance compared to... (more)

UP 6933 leads an eastbound intermodal hotshot over the top of the Blue Mountains of Oregon at Meacham. The lash up is their typical DD40AX-SD40-2-DD40AX consist.

After arriving at UP's Argo Yard, Seattle, the quartet of E units that will head the Old Timers' Special east, have cut off their train and are being positioned at the diesel facility for their ov... (more)

UP GP30 842 along with a GP30B & SD24B hold at Black River Jct., Seattle, WA, while a UP deadhead move rolls by with UP E9A 951, The Preamble Express, trailing. The deadhead move will leave the fo... (more)

BN SW1200 no. 241 (X-CB&Q) and bay window caboose BN 11702 paired up for service in Rochelle, IL back in October 1982. It was not real common to see BN bay window cabooses. This was formerly SLSF ... (more)