While the new locomotive bugs are being shaken out of TR 1525, the 1526 teemed up with it's older stablemate 1522 to drag a long cut of cars to the BNSF Tacoma yard. On the way back home, the tw... (more)

Tacoma Rail's 1525 and 1526, a pair of rebuilt MP15ACs in the latest paint scheme, take a breather after their first full day of work. Haven't heard yet how the crews like them, but they looked g... (more)

A Union Pacific intermodal train crosses Chambers Bay drawbridge in late afternoon light along Puget Sound at Steilacoom, WA. The double track line is owned by BN (BNSF now) and used by UP and Amt... (more)

TR 1525 has joined it's stable mate in crossing the street from the now defunct Progress Rail Tacoma. The last product to leave that Progress Rail Facility (formerly CEECO), it will soon be put t... (more)

With it's namesake mountains behind the camera, Cascades 505 crosses Bridge 14 at a very low tide, with Mt Rainier out of sight of the train's passengers, but in plane (err drone) view from this v... (more)

An well worn ex-Santa Fe Warbonnet Dash 9 brings up the rear of an oil train as it passes Clark's Point on a stormy afternoon. With all remaining former Superfleet locomotives well over 20 years ... (more)

Tacoma Rail's Hill Job (103) is on it's way home from Fredrickson and a portion of the former Milwaukee Road mainline. To do so, they must cross the BNSF and UP tracks and the Puyallup river over... (more)

The rain has stopped and the skies begin to clear as BNSF 4400 leads a southbound empty oil train through Bellingham, WA on February 22nd, 2021.

The Amtrak funeral train of retired Talgo equipment passes the Eastmoreland Golf Course in SE Portland. The cars are destined for Southern California.

Tacoma Rail's Hill job is on it's way to Fredrickson. This trip the crew has 14,600 horsepower to lug the 15 cars up the 3.65% grade that awaits them once they leave Sound Transits Lakewood Sub.... (more)

One of two new (rebuilt) MP15AC's for Tacoma Rail, in a brand new paint scheme. Also one of the last two locomotives to be produced by Progress Rail Tacoma, as they are shutting down this facilit... (more)

BNSF has been somewhat short of power so the crew on this Vancouver. WA to Pasco Wa manifest was given two low horsepower GEEPs to haul 7500 plus tons of freight in the snow through the gorge. Eve... (more)

You never know when it could be gone. It's only been a year and a half since this photo was taken on July 9, 2019 in Steilacoom, WA, but so much has changed. In just another six months, the COV... (more)

PNWR 1501 sitting tied down in albany.

After being on display at Portland's Union Station centennial celebration, Union Pacific 6936 departs the Rose City on the point of an intermodal train.