MILW 136 and a sister SD40-2 serve as helper units stationed at Kittitas, Wash. in August 1978. they help handle trains east over the Saddle Mountains to Beverly and west again. The westbound grad... (more)

Milwaukee Road train 201 headed up by former Bicentennial SD40-2 No. 156 heads into the curve at Sumner, WA as the fog lifts. GP9 no. 301 and its caboose are the Valley Owl local (patrol) that wor... (more)

Oops! BN GP9 1853 stubbed its toe at the Tacoma turntable, and several unhappy BN employees get the privilege of getting her back on track. I don't envy the guy underneath the coupler! 1853 began ... (more)

BN 602 still in its GN scheme at Vancouver. Slide is in my collection, no photographer listed.

BN 4077 rests at Vancouver in this shot from my collection. I traded for this slide years ago, no photographer listed.

A new slug has entered the world of railroading. Built on-site at TEMCO grain facility in Tacoma, from the old SW1200 219, which sat unused for years in this very spot. Originally this was the N... (more)

A rare visitor for the BNSF

Western Rail (WRIX) has bought this ex-Canadian National GMD1 switching locomotive, most likely for scrap or surplus parts. The conductor for this e... (more)

I'm not even sure it's Washington. Nothing on the slide.

BN had quite a few roster oddities in to deal with in the first few years. Some of the rarest were a small group of Ex NP Baldwin road units that had been re-engined with EMD 567's fairly early in... (more)

A BN officer's special descends the West side of BN's Stevens Pass line through the Cascade Mountains on a typical Pacific Northwest April cloudy day. The weather would turn to rain before the spe... (more)

From my collection - David Klawunder photo

Washington's Stevens Pass, named for John F. Stevens (who explored this area with C.F.B Haskell in the late 1880s in order to plot this rail line), is where the Great Northern Railroad crossed the... (more)

BN 4363,4182 rest outside the Wishram enginehouse waiting for a tardy #139 to show up so they can be added to the consist for the inside gateway run up the Deschutes River Canyon to the connection... (more)

BN 4011 leads the westbound Gorge local on a bright June day. BN had only 2 C415's and by the amount of chatter between the engineer and conductor it appeared this crew and every other train crew ... (more)