Amtrak’s Empire Builder 7 makes its way westbound at Gold Bar in the morning hours on the scenic sub. Recent wildfires that had swept the area have since been largely put out despite Grotto-S... (more)

Sounder Train 1700 led by cab car SDRX 109, heads north across the Bridge of Many Names, while a southbound BNSF manifest makes its way to the Seattle Terminal and ultimately Vancouver WA. The B... (more)

BNSF 8774 and an SD70MAC mate handle a Z-train west from Merritt, WA across Nason Creek as they start their final assault on Stevens Pass.

Peeking around the corner and into a marshmallow world, this empty jet train floats downhill at "The Slot" in Washington State's Cascade Mountains.

Boeing fuselages ride a westbound vehicle train in the Cascade Mountains on a snowy winter afternoon near Merritt, Washington. The location is familiarly known as "The Slot".

An eastbound freight holds the mainline at Skykomish while helpers attach to the rear for the climb up Stevens Pass and through the Cascade Tunnel. Even in the era of modern GEs, the current BNSF ... (more)

BN 1790 along with F9B 807 and GP9 1799 have attached to the rear of an eastbound freight at Skykomish as manned helpers to shove the train up the grade through the Cascade Tunnel, and on to Wenat... (more)

Crossing Nason Creek (Gaynor) Trestle, eastbound and down in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State. The peak of Rock Mountain is barely visible above the radiator wing of the leading locomoti... (more)

BN 5499, one of only three B32-8s on the railroad rolls up to the signal at Edmonds, WA. The Great Northern double tracked most of its mainline between Seattle and Everett, but left three short si... (more)

A southbound (westbound) Burlington Northern Santa Fe stack train passes Picnic Point Park north of Edmonds, Washington, on our nation’s birthday in 2004.

An eastbound BNSF Q train passes over a beautiful waterfall east of Skykomish, WA just after passing over the Foss River Trestle.

Amtrak train 513 get's a unexpected bath! Due to extremely high winds and high tide, the storm surge was higher than I have ever seen it before on the Puget Sound! Waves were literally coming up a... (more)

After a overnight snow fall, most of the snow at Edmonds have melted with some of the snow still hanging on from a distance in Mukilteo. The wind really started to pick up with winds sustained up ... (more)

An eastbound oil train sneaks around the corner through the rock outcroppings as it approaches Deception Creek trestle about three miles west of the Cascade Tunnel. Empty oil trains are now a regu... (more)

Man's Best Friend
There's nothing like sharing an afternoon of railfanning with your best friend, even if she's a little crazy (and I'm not talking about my wife). On this chilly but ... (more)