Crisp, morning sunlight immediately greets BNSF 8457 and company as they punch through the east hole of Tunnel #3, swinging immediately around a long, sweeping curve with H AUBPAS3 27A and its tra... (more)

Eastbound local at Fishtrap..

Eastbound manifest train at the summit of Providence Hill.

Westbound coal train.

Westbound grain train.

Westbound grain train.

Westbound grain train emerging from the fog at Fishtrap, WA

A BNSF stack train makes good time up the westbound grade of Stevens Pass bound for Cascade Tunnel at Merritt, Washington, on February 20, 2017.

Tacoma Municipal Belt line Alco S4 930 is down for truck work at the roads shop in Tacoma on a rare sunny day in the fall of 1977

VANCOUVER WA May 4 2011 — Amtrak P42DC 134 slows for a station stop with the southbound Coast Starlight. General electric built the unit (s/n 52814) in December 2000. My photo.

VANCOUVER WA May 2 2008 — Amtrak F59PHI 468 leads a Cascades train to a stop at the Amtrak station. EMD built the unit (s/n 996722-19) in October 1998 for Amtrak Cascades service in the Pacific... (more)

A Portland, OR bound UP freight out of Seattle exits Milwaukee Road trackage at Tacoma Jct. for a short hop across the Puyallup River into UP's Tacoma yard on its own trackage. When it leaves the ... (more)

Lowell siding in Everett is one of the more frequent places along the BNSF Scenic sub to land trains nearing hours of service. The viewing friendly pedestrian overpass and new-ish third track mak... (more)

VANCOUVER WA Feb 19 2011 — Columbia Business Center CBCX SSB1200 565 shows off its new paint job. It is tied down east of the interchange track. The elevated BNSF mains are in the background. Co... (more)

VANCOUVER WA July 6 2009 — Switcher San Bernardino 1200 CBCX 565 is tied down at the old Kaiser Shipyard. The 565 is operated by Columbia Business Center and the switching operation interchanges... (more)