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Grain Train

BNSF maintenance workers stand back in the clear as southbound Amtrak Cascade #501 slowly passes through the work site at the MP 111 Control Point under Form B authority in May 2012. Workers on BN... (more)

Pulling up the grade from Bucoda in the evening sunlight.

The 1201 crawls along Park Street, nearing the end of its morning turn to Mill 5 and back, loaded up with fresh-cut boards. The railroad has begun swapping out the old A-frame cars with newly acq... (more)

Grain Train

Gas Train

During the last hour of sunlight a Talgo train scoots southbound through Tenino, WA and will end its trip in Eugene, OR near midnight.

Faded Glory resplendent of former Santa Fe Warbonnet leading a BNSF merchandise freight cruising along the never fading beauty of the Columbia River George just west of Lyle, WA

Whenever I see this unit I think of Steve Martin doing the King Tut song!

A westbound Z train heads downgrade at the Trinidad Loop. BNSF 1101 was involved in a wreck in Arizona in October, 2000, and was nearly totaled. When BNSF repainted it in 2002, it was repainted in... (more)

A perfect spring morning meant I had to stop in downtown Snoqualmie on the way to work for a few photos of the Northwest Railway Museum. Th... (more)

Power at the rear of a log train pushing up the aptly named "Sand Cut". At 2.2%, the grade is the steepest and most challenging piece of the railroad. Once in a while, if the rail is wet or the ... (more)

After helping to shove a log train up the 2.2% "Sand Cut" these two switchers have cut off at the top and are returning light to town. The railroad passes through sections of deep woods with a fee... (more)