Amtrak No. 8, the eastbound Empire Builder rolls along the Wenatchee River after leaving Leavenworth station. Next stop Wenatchee in about 20 minutes.

Amtrak's 100th P42 leads a 5 hour late Empire Builder through Skykomish.

A tardy Empire Builder rolls west along the Columbia River just east of Rock Island, WA. Next stop Wenatchee. The April 15 schedule change resulted in daylight running through Wenatchee and over S... (more)

Amtrak Cascades Train #513 at Edmonds with Mt. Bachelor cab car leading.

The Warren G. Magnuson campaign special rolls east along Lake Easton as "Maggie" runs for yet another re-election. By this time the Amtrak Empire Builder had moved off this former NP line to the e... (more)

The Leavenworth Snow Train stopped at East Scenic for the Cascade Tunnel to flush the smoke.

Amtrak 183 leads train #507 below a cantilever searchlight signal bridge at Vancouver, WA on 8/30/13. The days of this signal bridge are said to be numbered.

The Heritage III paint scheme locomotive slows down for the approach at Edmonds station.

A 2 1/2 hour late Amtrak Empire Builder Train #7 cruises through Picnic Point Park as the train continues to salvage some lost time. The lead unit has a 'white scar' on front of the engine.

On a fast section of double-track southbound at Ferrier Road, Train 11 was sporting some fancy-pants power today, the recently unveiled Veterans' unit #42 with #156 bloody nose Amtrak Heritage. T... (more)

During the last hour of sunlight a Talgo train scoots southbound through Tenino, WA and will end its trip in Eugene, OR near midnight.

Evening glint catches the Coast Starlight in the last hour of its run to Seattle hugging the shoreline at Steilacoom, just south of the ferry dock.

Engine 470, still wrapped in its King Tut livery, whisks the evening Amtrak Cascades train 509 southbound along Puget Sound where it passes the town's vacant and decaying 1914 vintage Northern Pac... (more)

Train 18, the North Coast Hiawatha leaves Seattle behind rare West Coast visitors, GE P30CH locomotives with a pair of SDP40Fs in tow. During this time Amtrak has experienced suspicious derailment... (more)

The westbound Amtrak Empire Builder is at Martin, WA and about to enter the east portal of Stampede Tunnel, on the ex Northern Pacific mainline over Stampede Pass. This image was scanned from the ... (more)