One of 5 SD70ACe's for QNS&L, nearing delivery time at Progress Rail's Tacoma facility. Progress Rail ( CEECO before) frequently has interesting equipment on site. In the background is Metra ... (more)

Its really difficult to pass up this location, especially with a sunset as nice as this one. This is the BNSF Centralia turn out of Tacoma. Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: GE ET44AC
Location: Steilacoom, Washington, USA
Locomotive #: Unknown
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: June 04, 2016

The first SD70MAC repainted in the new Swosh (H3) scheme at CEECO in Tacoma. Leading the TACPAS, while a UP baretable heads to the Muni yard.

Before getting started grinding away on the rails of Bridge 14, this Loram Rail Grinding train gave the area a "good soaking".

Railroad: Loram
Locomotive: Unknown
Location: Steilacoom, Washington, USA
Locomotive #: n/a
Train ID: n/a
Photo Date: June 28, 2018

Dateline Tillamook Oregon…. The Columbia River Belt Line Railway #7, aka The Skookum, is all packed up and ready for its road trip to The Niles Canyon Railway in Sunol California.

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Snow as high as an elephant's ear, or something like that! The most snow in more than 30 years and the passengers of the westbound Empire Builder are getting a close up view. The excavator is on... (more)

BNSF 7462 is rolling out to it's train, while a mob of Pumpkins await their turn in the engine facility. Three Warbonnets lurk among the sea of orange. Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: GE ES44DC
Location: Tacoma, Washington, USA
Locomotive #: BNSF 7462
Train ID: TACPAS
Photo Date: July 07, 2009

The second in a series of 6 (so I've been told) mother/slug rebuilds in a Heritage paint scheme for CN.

Out of the most "uneventful" winter in the Puget Sound, comes a stunning sunset. Finally, passengers aboard the Cascades get to see something in the sky other than gray or black.

This is a BNSF stack train at the Port of Tacoma, delivering a train to Tacoma Rail. As part of normal operations, this train comes west across Stevens Pass, through Seattle and down (south) to... (more)

DPU Reflections on a rail, with a cloud capped Mt Rainier watching over this NB BNSF earthworm at Ruston.

No train in this shot. A good thing in this case, as the bridge was just raised and has been captured in the process of lowering. The reason of course are the streaks of light. Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: n/a
Location: Steilacoom, Washington, USA
Locomotive #: n/a
Train ID: n/a
Photo Date: July 17, 2008

UP 5551 leads the last of three UP trains in a row, through one of the numerous curves along the Puget Sound on BNSF's Seattle Sub. Bound for Seattle, this grainer will leave the BNSF Seattle sub... (more)

Winterail has come and gone, but the trains still roll on. At a point about halfway between two elevation gaining horseshoe curves about 3 miles west of Summit, a short 9 car Hauler creaks and gr... (more)

The southern most 200' of the Alaska Railroad is not in Alaska, but rather Washington State. On a nice summer evening in Seattle, the UP Barge job is unloading the barge that has the distinction... (more)