After a brief stop BNSF #5617 accelerates out of Skykomish on a sunny morning.

BNSF #4727 is moving at a crawl as it leads a stack train up the west slope of Stevens Pass on a sunny, 20° morning.

The S TACLPC begins its ascent to Stevens Pass during the evening blue hour on 12/12/12.

A westbound stack train meets an eastbound Z train at East Skykomish on a cold fall afternoon.

Cloudy day, common power -- once upon a time, at least. Good luck finding an SD40-2/GP50 combo along BNSF's mainlines today. On a rainy autumn morning in 2007, two Burlington Northern veterans d... (more)

This evening's #8 makes its run for Stevens Pass after pausing for a westbound BNSF train at Skykomish. The system that dropped two feet of snow at Scenic also brought snow to the lowlands this s... (more)

BNSF Snow Dozer in siding at Skykomish. Painted Orange/Black from former green. Prior green is partly visible on blades at points of wear.

Amtrak Empire Builder #8 streaks by control point East Skykomish en route to Chicago.

BNSF 4955 passes a DPU on a grain train. The snow has picked up the past few days, with Skykomish receiving a good 12" in the last 48 hours.

A report of a leaning load, kept this train tied down in Gold Bar for more than 24 hours. After, which the crew had quite a tough time getting it moving again. Heavy snow fall didn't help their ... (more)

Foss River Bridge; Amtrak number 8 lights up the snowy valley as it makes it way east up the 2.2% grade on Stevens Pass. Taken during the annual Tracks in the Snow Event with fellow RPix co... (more)

Dwarfed by mountains that resemble a massive pile of sugar-coated pastries -- Dunkin' Donuts Munchkins, anyone? -- hotshot Z-SSECHC6-19A shatters the mid-day quiet in Skykomish. At left is parked... (more)

Red at night / Photographer's delight: One more photo from that incredible moonlit, snowy, magical night in the Cascades two years ago. I find it remarkable how reflections from the icy cr... (more)

Washington's Stevens Pass, named for John F. Stevens (who explored this area with C.F.B Haskell in the late 1880s in order to plot this rail line), is where the Great Northern Railroad crossed the... (more)

A Burlington Northern freight, led by U33C 5762, passes the station in Skykomish, Washington, on September 20, 1979.