Tacoma Rail's hill job summits the 3% grade at 46th St as the sun rises this crisp autumn morning. The hill job, which runs 4 times a week, shuttles cars from Fife (Port of Tacoma) to Fredricks... (more)

With 26 cars for Frederickson behind the two SD70ACe-P4s, the hill job slowly makes it way up the 3 percent grade at 46th Street.

A late Starlight has just left the Tacoma Dome Station and is now crossing the new double track trestle just north of the station.

Both of Tacoma Rail’s Aces scream at full throttle, with the throaty roar of the EMD engines echoing throughout the gulch as they battle gravity to bring a sizable Hill job up the 3.5% grade. Th... (more)

Real containers wear pink. TMBL GP40 3001 and GP23ECO 2316 could be accused of playing 'Where's Waldo in a colorful Tacoma muni yard, but Tacoma Rail turns and burns at a rate that has made Tacoma... (more)

Tacoma Rails Hill Job tops out on the Milwaukee Roads toughest hill to tackle at 46th Street.

UP's I-TAG3 is crossing the UP bridge across the Puyallup River just outside CP Reservation, where it will join the BNSF's Seattle Sub. At this point they are still putting their train together, ... (more)

The power for the LPCTAC has been turned on Tacoma Rail's Wye and is now headed back to the train, sitting on the Tacoma Main. Soon this set of power will once again cross the Puyallup River to d... (more)

For some reason the crew of the LPCTAC needed to turn their power. While BNSF has a turntable, I'm not sure if it's still in service and the roundhouse crew is gone by this time, so their next o... (more)

With a wildfire smoke sunset in the background, #14, running pretty much on time, is pulling out of the Tacoma Dome Station and across the new Sound Transit Tacoma Trestle.

This is a BNSF stack train at the Port of Tacoma, delivering a train to Tacoma Rail. As part of normal operations, this train comes west across Stevens Pass, through Seattle and down (south) to... (more)

Still trying to figure this one out. About 4 pm, this intermodal train was shoving in to the yard, or at least that what it sound like over the radio. The shove is from right to left. On the le... (more)

Tacoma Rail's Hill Job is returning home from work at Frederickson. The train is just coming off of the Lakewood Sub and crossing over the BNSF and UP Seattle Subs. Off in the distance a UP sta... (more)

Tacoma Rail's Hill job makes a late appearance on Sunday morning, crossing the Sound Transit Tacoma bridge, where once stood the historic Milwaukee S-Curve wooden trestle. The acknowledgment pres... (more)

Tacoma Rails Hill begins the ascend of Tacoma Hill and is coming out of the curves in between and under 3 different freeways. Todays train dealing made the hill easily even with the wet rail being... (more)