The rear of a grain train dives below Seattle in to the South Portal

A BNSF manifest exits the South Portal from under Seattle to continue SB towards Tacoma

Amtrak train 11, the Coast Starlight, will be departing Seattle's King Street Station at 11:20 am, beginning its southbound 1,364-mile run to Los Angeles CA. Two consecutively numbers SDP4... (more)

Sounder #903 brings in a train from Everett during the rush hour of Seattle this morning.

Last Mile. Cascades 517 passes through the North Portal limits on its way to King Street Station.

A beautiful spring afternoon sees one of the two afternoon Sounder trains to Everett head north along Carkeek Park Beach next to Puget Sound with a veteran F59PHI trailing.

A BNSF Stacks and Racks train heads under downtown Seattle with a NS SD70ACe shoving on the rear.

While a number of crows and gulls mind their business in the tidal waters and streams at Carkeek Park Beach, a northbound BNSF manifest heads up the coast towards Everett on a sunny and warm sprin... (more)

The Seattle section of Amtrak's eastbound Empire Builder is less than 20 minutes out of King Street Station as it runs through an S-Curve along the shores of Puget Sound at Carkeek Park Beach on a... (more)

Seattle's skyline, as seen from across Elliott Bay. A tug boat pulls a barge with rail cars upon it – bulkhead flats with lumber and at least one wood chip car – a not uncommon sight in these ... (more)

Stadium Signals. Sound Transit/Sounder Commuter Rail F59PHI SDRX 909 (EMD, 1998–2001) is laying over next to Safeco Field in Seattle, Washington as seen from South Holgate Street on the m... (more)

AMTK 540 heads up the Empire Builder at King St. station as it loads passengers for its trip to Chicago via Stampede Pass to Spokane, then the former GN mainline via Glacier Park to Minneapolis be... (more)

BN 1524, x-GN GP7, pokes its nose out of the Interbay roundhouse, sharing space with a GP35 & F9A. The stripes on the long hood identify it as the front, typical of all GN road switchers (as deliv... (more)

BN 6004 was Balmer Yard's principal hump engine in the mid-70s. The unit was GN's fifth SD7, part of a fleet of 23 SD7s and 27 SD9s, most of which were assigned to Minnesota. I enjoyed several eve... (more)

SP 4449 is parked for display at Seattle's King St. Station after arriving with the American Freedom Train. The train would be opened for visitation before the train would continue south to Portla... (more)