Union Pacific's I-TAG4 hugs the Puget Sound heading southbound for an eventual terminus of Joliet, Illinois' Global 4 intermodal terminal.

A Northwest Container stack train bound for the Port of Portland curves through Steilacoom at sunset.

Bridge 14 sunset

Shortly after sunset, BNSF 7792 glides along Puget Sound with the Longview, WA to Everett, WA manifest.

On a calm Spring evening, BNSF 1419 leads the southbound Everett to Longview Mixed Freight along Puget Sound at Salters Point.

UP 3609 leans into the curves with its Portland bound train at Steilacoom, WA. The double track main is owned by BN and used by UP and Amtrak at this time. Amtrak now uses a different route out of... (more)

UP 5851 leads a freight north past the Steilacoom, WA station (NP heritage) and ferry boats that service Anderson Island & Ketron Island on the double track mainline into Tacoma along Puget Sound.... (more)

There weren't many Strauss direct lift bridges to begin with, but this is the last one in the US. There is also one left in Prince George, BC. Northern Pacific Railway commissioned the bridge in 1... (more)

Just after Sunset a northbound empty BNSF grain train heads through Sunnyside Park in Steilacoom, WA.

Its near high tide at Chambers Bay on the Puget Sound, and near sunset as well, for the crossing of Bridge 14 by this south bound UP stack train.

Grain empties race across Bridge 14 along the Puget Sound on a gorgeous Summer evening.

Amtrak 507 coasts along the Puget Sound on the evening of July 7th rounding Steilacoom Curve just after crossing the lift-bridge at milepost 14. Later in the year Amtrak would discontinue service ... (more)

The Southern Pacific Heritage Unit leads a very worn AC4400 along the Puget Sound.

Wednesday 11/17/21 was the last day for passenger trains on the Pt Defiance portion of BNSF's Seattle Sub. The next day, the Cascades and Starlights moved to the Lakewood Sub. With that move, s... (more)

A Old Alco HH660 owned by Glacier sand and gravel waits for its next run on a dreary day in the fall of 1977