Just before noon Tacoma Rails Hill Job has escaped the Port of Tacoma and takes a short 10 car train up the hill with the two SD70s as the power.

After clearing a tree off the tracks Tacoma Rails Hill Job is underway on the 3.8% grade as they lift the first of two cuts to 85th Street.

Tacoma Rail 7001 leads the Tacoma Rail Hill Job up the 3.8% Grade at 43rd Street with all units screaming in run 8. The Milwaukee Road PCE mainline to Portland once ruled the grade, since 1980 own... (more)

Tacoma Rail 7001 leads the Tacoma Rail Hill Job up the 3.8% Grade at 46th Street. The Milwaukee Road PCE mainline to Portland once ruled the grade, since 1980 ownership has belonged to Chehalis We... (more)

Former Santa Fe unit 181 powers a garbage train south in the late afternoon through Ruston with Mount Rainier looming in the background