Thursday 11/18/21 was the first day for passenger trains on the Pt Defiance bypass, Sound Transits Lakewood sub. Amtrak #11, Starlight, was the first long distance passenger train on the route. Th... (more)
Thursday 11/18/21 was the first day for passenger trains on the Pt Defiance bypass, Sound Transits Lakewood sub. Cascades 503 was the first passenger train on the route, this time around. The Lake... (more)
Wednesday 11/17/21 was the last day for passenger trains on the Pt Defiance portion of BNSF's Seattle Sub. The next day, the Cascades and Starlights moved to the Lakewood Sub. With that move, s... (more)
Cooling their heels (or should it be "wheels"?) after the morning commuter rush are a pair of Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority's "Sounder" trains. The trainset o... (more)
The Port of Royal Slope just southeast of Royal City, Washington, operates a former Milwaukee Road branch line from Royal City to the Pacific Extension main line at Royal City Junction, and also o... (more)
A break in the Autumn rains of the Puget Sound area, gives way to a decent sunset, while UP's empty garbage train heads back to Seattle for a refill.
Old #6 welcomes visitors to the entrance of North Cascades National Park along hwy 20 in Newhalem WA. The plaque explains the engine was purchased in 1927 for $7,500 and brought supplies to the a... (more)
The Gold Bar turn prepositioning ballast cars for further flooding in the Skykomish Valley.
Big Eddy Park on the Skykomish River
BNSF’s Connell turn from Pasco, powered by a pair of Cascade green EMD SD60Ms, along with Columbia Basin Railroad’s Connell turn, make quick work of exchanging trains at—you guessed it—Con... (more)
Southbound Stacks with Union Pacific ES44AH leading, rolls through Sunnyside Beach Park at Steilcoom Wa.
Sunset falls on a sunny day.
A westbound coal train in the Columbia River Gorge.
A westbound empty garbage train in the Columbia River Gorge.
Heading toward Hauser, Idaho, on BNSF’s Pend Oreille Subdivision, an eastbound BNSF manifest freight crosses the Spokane River Bridge at Spokane, Washington, on October 5, 2021.
