A westbound manifest glides out of the 7.8 mile long Cascade Tunnel and past an empty grain train that has been waiting for the last two hours. You can see a photo of when the empty grain trai... (more)

A westbound intermodal train glides down the grade at Deception Creek.

Stacks meet at Scenic during some winter mountain weather in the Cascades of Washington.

Ducking under the US 2 overpass a westbound passes the east switch and the Scenic-based dozer which may be seeing some work in its near future with a snow storm blowing in over the next few days.

An eastbound empty grain train rolls to a stop before the crossing at Scenic. It sat for about two hours while snow collected in the radiator. When it took off, the thermostat opened up and you co... (more)

Cascade Tunnel; as warm air exits the Cascade Tunnel ahead of a westbound train it condenses in the freezing cold air and the dirty concoction is highlighted by the headlights. Its a reall... (more)

In the blue gloom of a winter evening's twilight, the headlights of an eastbound stack train illuminate the west portal and interior of Cascade Tunnel. Ahead, pierced only by the light carried by ... (more)

West Portal Cascade Tunnel; What sometimes looks like a worm hole straight out of Star Trek or a time travel portal is the powerful headlights of a westbound locomotive highlighting the con... (more)

East Scenic; On a cold wet night the signals protecting the Cascade Tunnel come alive as a eastbound chugging up the 2.2% grade steps on their block. The lights of a nearby ski resort prov... (more)

A BN officer's special descends the West side of BN's Stevens Pass line through the Cascade Mountains on a typical Pacific Northwest April cloudy day. The weather would turn to rain before the spe... (more)

With dynamic brakes howling BN 6473 West exits the West Portal of Cascade Tunnel at Scenic as the crew sees daylight for the first time since entering the bore on the east side of the Cascade Ran... (more)

The Fires of Hell: The Z-CHCSSE9, one of the hottest trains on BNSF's Northern Transcon, seems to have set the inside of Cascade Tunnel aglow from its passage. In truth, the train's headli... (more)

For the past 20 minutes, we've been watching a tiny speck of light, some 7 miles away, gradually grow into a beacon illuminating the last of the exhaust still billowing out of the west portal of t... (more)

The FRED light of the westbound train has faded out of sight, just past the eastbound in the hole nearly a mile a way. Behind me, the exhaust is still billowing out of the west portal of the Cas... (more)

Winter has arrived! The season's first snow covers the whole world on a beautiful morning in the Cascades. The early Z is departing Scenic after meeting a westbound stack train; just a few... (more)