On the eve of nearly 24 hours of snow, a Tacoma Link street car leaves Tacoma Dome Station for Tacoma's Theater District. Not long after this shot the increasing snow shut the system down.

During a brief break between snow storms that have brought a good deal of sea level snow to the Puget Sound area (to say nothing of the foot or more at higher elevations), the Amtrak Starlight rol... (more)

Cascades 505 heads to Portland on the tail end of a snow storm that brought a fair amount of sea level snow to the Puget Sound. The storm also brought some wind, kicking up the waves along the so... (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)

A Tacoma Rail job has a setout of mostly tractors for the Wallenius Wilhelmsen facility at EB1 on the Blair Waterway in Tacoma. Quite a selection of heavy machinery in the background.

A trio of steamers and their crews. Martin Hansen with the Skookum - Columbia River Belt Line Railway - #7, Scott Gordon and Jim Abney on the McCloud #25, and Ryan Dela and Sam Aldridge on Pol... (more)

A Union Pacific EB stack train rolls along the mighty Columbia River and through a spectacular fall colors scene.

The last run-by of the day has been completed and the double header train has been transformed into a train with a single locomotive (McCloud #25) and a light engine move of the Polson Lumber Co #... (more)

On a victory day for the Seattle Seahawks, the Seahawks Cabbage car protects the end of Cascades 518, as it races along the Fall colored edge of Commencement Bay in Tacoma, while the last vestiges... (more)

Southeast of Wenatchee, Washington is the Great Northern's crossing of the Columbia River. Completed in 1893, it required upgrades to be able to handle larger and heavier locomotives by 1925. The ... (more)

Southeast of Wenatchee, Washington is the Great Northern's crossing of the Columbia River. Completed in 1893, it required upgrades to be able to handle larger and heavier locomotives by 1925. The ... (more)

One of a seemingly endless supply of empty grain trains making it's way east on the BNSF Stampede sub. This train and I, left Auburn at the same time. Traffic was good for both of us and I arri... (more)

A Bald Eagle stands guard at it’s nest, as the twice a day intruder rumbles by and across Benewah Lake near St Maries Idaho.

Tucked away in a corner of the Idaho Panhandle is the St Maries ... (more)

The sun has set in a smoky sky over lake Pend Oreille and on cue, a westbound BNSF manifest crosses the bridge and into my frame. Soon this scene will look rather different, as BNSF is in the pla... (more)

The sun has set in a smoky sky over lake Pend Oreille and on cue, a westbound BNSF manifest crosses the bridge and into my frame. Soon this scene will look rather different, as BNSF is in the pla... (more)