This last summer, I got my first chance to visit the Bellingham area, and with all costs covered! I attended a week-long Christian conference in town, and thanks to having my car, I was able to ta... (more)

The northbound Rocky Mountaineer's Coastal Passage train round the bend near Boulevard Park in Bellingham.

Amtrak train 510 heads northbound into Bellingham, WA with F59PHI No. 466 giving it a push. A former F40PH, now a baggage/cab car heads the train. This is the morning Cascades service from Seattle... (more)

Heading for Vancouver BC as it leaves Fairhaven station

How do you photograph your own train along scenic Puget Sound? Well, you lean out of the dutch door as far as you can and capture this image of round-end Great Northern Train 358's Observation/l... (more)

Here is a shot of GN Trains 357 - 358 (operating between Seattle and Vancouver, B.C.) passing near Bellingham, Wash, after stopping to exchange border customs inspectors. Round-end Obs cars on b... (more)

With less than a month to go before the March 1980 embargo, Milwaukee's Sumas Turn crosses the BN mainline along the Bellingham waterfront. After adding a few cars, the train will head for Tacoma ... (more)

The Ferndale Turn heads south along the Bellingham Bay waterfront with a trio of EMD's the first two of which are showing their age. The Ferndale Turn gathered cars from the locals working the Ch... (more)

Burlington Northern Work Train with GP-9's 1728 & 1944 slow to a stop to do some switching at the north end of Bellingham Yard.

2AM on a moon lit morning a BNSF freight train heading south bound pulling empty hopper cars passes within a few feet of the The Chrysalis Inn in Fairhaven Wa. Your first hint that there's trains... (more)

The sun has set, but the railroad doesn't shut down for the night. A northbound train shatters the calm of a late-spring evening as it rumbles across the causeway at the mouth of Padden Creek, pa... (more)

Amtrak 466 heads the 0640 Vancouver to Portland past the former station at Bellingham.WA. Amtrak services now stop a couple of miles south at Fairhaven. BNSF GP50 3143 and partner sleep on the adj... (more)

469 heads north through Bellingham with the 0740 Seattle to Vancouver.

The sun brakes out just in time for the 9:45 am arrival of northbound Cascade train into Bellingham, WA on a cool fall morning.