Anatomy of a Meet, Part 2: Westbound M-SPOPAS1-23A is now just shy of the Providence Hill summit while eastbound S-SEPLPC1-23K cruises downgrade toward a clear signal at Sand. The benefit ... (more)

Just because it's a holiday doesn't mean that Portland shuts down. An old gent strolls up Morrison Street on a wet New Year's Day as a northbound Portland Streetcar run works its way down the hil... (more)

Fellow RP contributors Mike Bjork (in the red hat) and Railroad: TriMet MAX
Locomotive: Siemens SD600
Location: Portland, Oregon, USA
Locomotive #: MAX 242
Train ID: Yellow Line
Photo Date: January 01, 2010

Now Arriving: Link Light Rail from Downtown Seattle to SeaTac/Airport! reads the celebratory banner that the first revenue train from Seattle is tearing through. Dozens upon dozens ... (more)

Shortly after sunrise on a cool late-autumn morning, a northbound Central Link train approaches Mt. Baker Station on the concrete viaduct which carries the line over Martin Luther King Jr. Way.

In 2009, railroads idled whole fleets of locomotives in response to the massive decrease in traffic that resulted from the economic downturn. With seemingly every BNSF train in the Northwest powe... (more)

Engineer Larry leans close to the 3004's mirror to look back over his train as it trundles through the rolling Palouse region of eastern Washington.

BNSF's Lakeside Subdivision has a 15-mile stretch of two main tracks between Cunningham and Lind which is often used for making running meets. The Pasco East dispatcher used this stretch to his a... (more)

A beautiful early-autumn afternoon at the place Peter Furnee jokingly calls Honan Overlook finds yet another empty co... (more)

A mid-afternoon southbound service pulls out of Mt. Baker Station; the train will shortly return to street level for the run down the Rainier Valley. The flared tips on the catenary poles are sup... (more)

A lone Seattle-bound passenger awaits the next northbound train at Mt. Baker Station as a southbound departs for almost-the-airport (the extension to actually reach SeaTac opens December 19th). T... (more)

Winter has arrived! The season's first snow covers the whole world on a beautiful morning in the Cascades. The early Z is departing Scenic after meeting a westbound stack train; just a few... (more)

Horsepower droppings.

The light at the end of the tunnel is, in fact, an approaching train: In less than a second, a westbound will emerge from the darkness of Cascade Tunnel into the gloom of a twilit evening. The h... (more)

It's just another winter night on the former Great Northern mainline as a meet is made at Scenic. The crew of westbound Z-CHCSSE1-12A is happy to have successfully completed another trip through ... (more)