Perhaps one of the hottest trains I ever witnessed, this UP hotshot led by an SD45 & DD35A and consisting of one seemingly very important mechanical reefer and a Cupola caboose, rolls onto UP trac... (more)

MILW U36C no. 5802 handles a set out and pick up at Milwaukees's yard at Black River Jct. Here the train is using Pacific Coast trackage as a yard lead as it passes by the BN owned tower that prto... (more)

Today was to be a landmark day in the history of Amtrak and Washington State DOT. And it was. Unfortunately, the debut of new Talgo passenger train service along I-5 from Tacoma to Nisqually met w... (more)

Today was to be a landmark day in the history of Amtrak and Washington State DOT. And it was. Unfortunately, the debut of new Talgo passenger train service along I-5 from Tacoma to Nisqually met w... (more)

A Milwaukee Road westbound transcontinental freight has pulled onto Pacific Coast Railway trackage at Black River Junction, south of Seattle. The train is switching cars at its Black River Yard be... (more)

MILW 5802 leads another big GE, and SD40-2 and an SD45 into Black River Jct. along Milwaukee's Black River yard in Tukwila, just south of Seattle. This location was where the branch into Seattle, ... (more)

In that brief period of time at the beginning of the day when the sky glows blue but only artificial sources cast light on terrestrial objects, one of first Link trains of the day accelerates out ... (more)

Slicing through the scissors crossover at Tukwila International Boulevard Station, a southbound train approaches what was then Central Link's terminal station on a crisp late-autumn afternoon. Th... (more)

The old ways are the best ways. With opening a little more than a month away, Sound Transit shuts down the new line for a day of track repairs and leveling. The vehicles traveling down this... (more)

Sometimes, everything just comes together. A beautiful sunset, a jet taking off, and a train. A United puddle jumper, for some reason, lifts off towards the end of the runways at SeaTac Internatio... (more)

Late Tuesday night, a Link Light Rail train layovers at Tukwila Station under an eerily-thick-for-Seattle fog. For the next 24 days, Tukwila will mark the south end of Sound Transits new light rai... (more)

After making the long, slow climb up from I-5 to over 90' above the ground to clear over HY99, Link vehicle #125 pounds the #6 scissor crossover as it slows to pull into Tukwila Station.

Future operators of Sound Transit's Link Light Rail vehicles are undergoing training as they take Seattle's shiny new LRVs out for a spin well before the public has ever made a boarding.

There aren't many passengers on the reverse-commute Sounder. However, this reverse train is required to enable Sound Transit to run its last south train out of Seattle due to lack of trainsets. Be... (more)

Amtrak cab control car 90250 leads train 516 across the overpass at the north end of the Tukwila depot.