Union Pacific ET44AH No.2695 and SD70M No. 4648 with a mixed manifest roll by Sunnyside Beach Park in Steilacoom. Lots of people take advantage of a beautiful August weekend and head to the beach... (more)

Amtrak train #513, with NPCU 90251 leading the ill fated Mt. Adams trainset and AMTK 181, pass by Sunnyside Beach in Steilacoom, WA on a rare sunny day in Western WA on 12/5/17.

Amtrak 509 passes over the bridge just south of the Steilacoom Marina, as seen from water level at sunset on 9/15/17.

Just 5 days before the Mt. Adams trainset trailing this locomotive would be destroyed in a derailment of the only to date revenue passenger train on the Point Defiance Bypass at DuPont, WA (Amtrak... (more)

A scene that wasn't supposed to be anymore! Cascades trains along the South Puget Sound and over the unique Bridge 14. Due to the tragic derailment of Cascades 501 in December, passenger train... (more)

The Coast Starlight glides along Puget Sound at Steilacoom, south of Tacoma, WA on a sunny April day. Amtrak continues to use this route after their December 2017 derailment of a Cascades service ... (more)

Extremely dramatic storm light glints off of a southbound Amtrak Cascades train passing the ferry dock along Puget Sound.

Hugging the Puget Sound will no longer be experienced at this location after today. Tomorrow, passenger trains will move to the $181 million inland "Point Defiance bypass" route.... (more)

Farewell to Passenger Rail Service Here. After today, passenger trains will cease to run on these tracks. With tomorrow's switch to the $181 million "inland Point Defiance bypass,&qu... (more)

I bet the passengers enjoying the view out of this Sightseer Lounge had no idea that plans to end passenger trains on this beautiful segment of the Coast Starlight were well underway at the time o... (more)

WDTX 1403 one of WSDOT's new Charger locomotives, leads Cascades 507 south along the Puget Sound in Steilacoom. This is will soon be sight not possible for photographers, train watchers or pas... (more)

Amtrak Cascades rolls along the Puget Sound at Steilacoom, but not for long. The inland Point Defiance bypass will move all Amtrak operations off this extremely scenic stretch of railroad.

While Amtrak's Sunday Cascades races through the small community of Steilacoom, its passengers continue to take in the magnificent scenery of the southern section of the Puget Sound. This scene wi... (more)

Repainted in early spring of 2017, BNSF 253 heads up a southbound garbage train along the southern section of the Puget Sound.

Rainey River Forest Products GE 44 tonner and crew are waiting for the Union Pacific West Tacoma local with 3 cars of wood chips for the Chambers Creek Paper Mill in the summer of 1996.