Silhouetted by the setting sun, a Seattle-bound ST Link service soars over SR-518 shortly after departing SeaTac/Airport Station.

A westbound UP manifest is only a couple miles from the end of the D&RGW's Dotsero Cutoff as it cruises between the Colorado River and 900-foot-tall bluffs on an autumn afternoon.

Cut Loose Caboose: A few months ago, the barber I've been going to since moving to Issaquah relocated from his old storefront next to the Front Street Market; much to my surprise, Maurice s... (more)

Walking on water: Wielding a "calibrated ballast density meter," fellow RP contributor Bob Harbison inspects the... (more)

An eastbound coal load slowing to a stop at Range siding casts a long shadow during the last minutes of light on Halloween, 2010; a westbound out of Bond is the source of the delay to this train. ... (more)

I've lived in Issaquah for more than half a decade and always assumed the small piece of ex-NP track running diagonally through downtown was dormant. Grand plans to reactivate the trolley line, l... (more)

With mountains stretching to the horizon, the region west of the Continental Divide would seem to be an impossible place for a railroad to traverse -- yet the Rio Grande found the Colorado River a... (more)

On a spectacular Northwest winter day, a quartet of SD70Ms roll a southbound stack train along Puget Sound as dozens of sail boats participating in the annual Toliva Shoal Race tack across the dee... (more)

Happy 100th birthday, Union Station! Opened in May, 1911 by Union Pacific predecessor Oregon-Washington Railway & Navigation Company and joined soon thereafter by the Chicago, Milwaukee, S... (more)

A trio of clean Dash 9s step across High Bridge as they lead the charge of an empty grain train up the 2.2% grade of Stampede Pass on a glorious autumn morning. Unfortunately, the massiveness of ... (more)

Bathed by the warm glow of an autumn sunset, a short southbound manifest skirts the shore of Bellingham Bay. Visible in the distance through the haze are Canada's Coast Mountains.

Southbound Amtrak Cascades No. 513 kicks up a cloud of dust as it blasts across newly-constructed track at Logen crossover north of Stanwood. The toppled Honey Bucket -- unoccupied, thankf... (more)

In Coal Country, railroading truly is a religion.

Following the twisting course of the Yakima River as it slices through the Umtanum Ridge anticline, an empty grain train is utterly dwarfed by the 1,500-foot-tall basalt cliffs of the Yakima River... (more)

End of the line? Victoria's historic Johnson Street Bridge, with two parallel bascule spans carrying rail, road and pedestrian traffic over Victoria Harbor, may have hosted its last train:... (more)