Close up of Amtraks new spaceship at PDX.

The new Charger locomotive has made it down to Portland and is sitting on the lead track for Union Station.

Putting on a dog and pony show for Oregon DOT, a Cascades Talgo heads for Medford on CORP. It was quite incongruous to see the "high speed" train rolling along at 25 MPH on the Siskiyou ... (more)

Amtrak Cascade Non-Powered Control Unit (NPCU) 90252 at the Portland Union Station

A pretty significant mudslide a few days ago has resulted in massive freight traffic backups and the cancellation of all passenger trains, until today. Cascades 509 is passing under the Tacoma Na... (more)

An Amtrak Cascades train heads south behind a "platypus" cab car.

Amtrak Cascade's Mt. Bachelor talgo set stretches across the Steel Bridge as it prepares to head south for a journey down UP's Brooklyn Subdivision.

One of Amtrak's newer Talgo sets embarks on its journey south to Eugene, crossing the Steel Bridge as it does so.

Amtrak's midday southbound Talgo passes the world's largest egg.

Southbound Amtrak Cascades Train 507, headed by the Seahawks-wrapped NPCU rounds the curve at Gordons Point along Puget Sound. While freight traffic will still use the picturesque water level rou... (more)

Southbound Talgo train about to rattle the planks on Bridge 14 at Chambers Bay along Puget Sound. While freight traffic will still use the picturesque water level route from Nisqually to Tacoma t... (more)

Colorado-Bound

Four-day-old Siemens SC-44 diesel-electric passenger locomotives WDTX 1402 and 1403 were found in Amtrak’s Redondo Junction engine facility in downtown Los Angeles o... (more)

It Had that “New Locomotive” Smell!

Just four days out of the factory, and not yet in service, Washington State Department of Transportation 1402, a Siemens SC-44 diesel-electric... (more)

So Clean You Could Eat Off the Floor – But We Opted Not To

Washington State Department of Transportation 1402, a Siemens SC-44 diesel-electric passenger locomotive, rolled out of t... (more)

With traffic on Union Pacific gridlocked, Talgo shipped its carbodies to Seattle by truck for final assembly. Three of the cars are seen at a truck stop on US 97.