There's Something You Don't See Everyday. It's your typical, June afternoon in Portland as...wait...SP 4449 running tender-forward on the mainline? That's right, the 1941-built product of L... (more)

Amtrak Cascades at Tin Rock: Amtrak train 519 rounds a curve as it approaches the Fairhaven Station in Bellingham. The rock seen in the water is actually a pile of scrap tin that was discar... (more)

Portland & Western's OE Switcher is shown in Beaverton, Oregon during July 1997. The train is running on the connection that was built between the former Oregon Electric and the Southern Pacific... (more)

The 4 O'clock run of the Oregon Rail Heritage Center's Holiday Express on the last day of this year's season.

BNSF 505 (ex. ATSF) leads an assortment of older power south through Carkeek Park as the sun sets, skirting the scenic Puget Sound as the tide rolls in. This traffic is mainly of Canadian descent ... (more)

Cascades Train 508 is getting ready to depart north to Seattle (right side train), while another Cascades train set awaits its next assignment at Portland's Union Station.

Heritage at the Pond: It's a crisp Thanksgiving Day morning and Amtrak train number 516 is rolling by as it approaches the Fairhaven station in Bellingham, Washington. Leading the charge on... (more)

Cascading Along the Sound: Amtrak train 517 rolls along the water's edge of Puget Sound as it nears Samish. In short order, the train will turn inland to pass through the farmland of the Sk... (more)

Charging Over the Viaduct: Amtrak Cascades thunders across a large steel viaduct on the north side of Bellingham, Washington as it heads for Vancouver, B.C. Leading the charge is SC-44 loco... (more)

Fall on Approach: Fall is approaching in the Pacific Northwest as the evening southbound Amtrak Cascades train nears its first station stop at Bellingham, Washington on its 4 and a half hou... (more)

In order to serve the Pacific Northwest’s two largest cities, Amtrak’s Empire Builder added a Portland section in 1981, with the train splitting in two at Spokane, Washington, and continuin... (more)

Heading south from Tacoma WA is BNSF Railway train M-TACPAS4-22, seen passing Vancouver, Washington’s yard on a smoky August 22, 2015. This merchandise train is powered by six-month-old ES44C4 79... (more)

The 2nd warbonnet i've seen this month! This time it's breaking up a train that the pair just brought down from Seattle or Tacoma at The Port of Portland, T6 Yard.

Warbonnet 704 is missing half the cigar brand logo. It's bring up a military train with a load of strykers.

No longer in red & silver, these former ATSF motors lead a PASVAN with mainly grain hoppers into Vancouver.