Wait 'til Wal-Mart, Costco, et al. get ahold of this type of Big Box operation! The Boeing Local has just descended from the assembly plant uphill in Everett with big-box containers for transport... (more)
A southbound train waits to load passengers from buses before proceeding to Skagway. In deference to Yukon winters, the structure beside the diesel provides shelter for a water tank for servicing... (more)
Absorbing the reverie of the sweet sounds of hard-working Alcos -- not to mention a lungfull of diesel particulates! -- passengers ride a White Pass excursion into the tunnel at milepost 16 on the... (more)
Alco 106, with sisters 107 and 109, return from the cruise ship docks to fill out the train's complement of passengers before the 8:15 excursion to White Pass Summit. Ah, railroading in a rain fo... (more)
Pretty neat operation! Narrow gauge, vintage varnish, drumhead ... and steam to boot! It's worth the trip to Alaska.
What better way to spend a pleasant summer evening in Washington than hotshotting northward on a Talgo to Bellingham? AMTK 452 provides the power.
Shiny new GEVOs just keep on coming. 7545 gets the point of a Boeing delivery about to assault the east slope of the Cascades.
The Daylight, together with UP 844, struts south along Puget Sound on its second of two Tacoma-Everett double-headed excursions of the weekend.
Regional Indiana and Ohio Rwy. picks up loads of Michigan beans to move farther south. Beans may soon replace autos as Michigan's premier output.
Not a usual sight on the Michigan line, the result of detouring around a derailment at Bryan, Ohio. The structure in the foreground is the entrance ramp to the Artrain, which uses this siding whe... (more)
Former SP tunnel motor 4429 joins 3296 in the morning lineup waiting to parade eastward over the Golden State Route.
In all, four big GE's put their might into fighting the grade and curvature to lift an eastbound stacker into the morning sun and over Stevens Pass.
This eastbound grain train passed through Greensburg ten hours before a deadly tornado outbreak nearly destroyed the town -- one of the hazards of living on the Great Plains.
After a long afternoon's climb to the summit at Palmer Lake, this southbound coal drag can now breathe easier.
For a time, the Toronto-Chicago International ran as a joint venture of VIA and Amtrak, VIA providing the power and Amtrak the equipment.
