Boeing fuselages ride a westbound vehicle train in the Cascade Mountains on a snowy winter afternoon near Merritt, Washington. The location is familiarly known as "The Slot".

It was a slow day for the crew and the stable was full early in the afternoon. The 1202 is the first engine, then the 1201. Just in from the rain is the 1200, and the 900 occupies the stall next... (more)

Just east of bridge 3 over Goldsborough Creek the 1200 returns downgrade light to get busy with switching in Shelton after earlier hauling logs up to Mill 5

After having crossed over from the Fallbridge Sub in Washington via the Celilo Bridge, a southbound climbs out of the Columbia River Gorge along the Deschutes River drainage on the Oregon Trunk li... (more)

Simpson switch job races the PSAP Bangor turn (seemingly) side by side on adjacent track at 6:30 AM. After 125 years in existence the final day comes Monday for this lumber railroad. The mill it ... (more)

This location is where the railroad runs adjacent to the Shelton - Matlock Highway. They've been using three locomotives lately to move logs to the dry sort yard at Dayton, one up front, two on t... (more)

A roundhouse scene: The Simpson lokies don't get out much these days except for a bit of switching in the mornings. The 900 is in the near stall, then the 1200 and 1201 while the 1202 reposes in ... (more)

Conductor Jerry Miller puts together an afternoon lumber train of A-frames at Mill 3. Shortly after we will take the cars up the hill to Mill 5. Permission OK'd to ride.

During a solstice weekend on the BNSF's Scenic Subdivision at Gaynor, Washington (MP 1696.5), lupines are still hanging on to their late spring blooms on June 22nd, 2014 as a westbound Seattle sec... (more)

Train 507 passes under Waldrick Road at speed in SE Thurston County, WA on its way to the next station stop in Centralia.

On a westward afternoon job to return empty A-frames to Mill 5, the Simpson switcher "lumbers" around a corner just before crossing bridge 2. The 10 mile trip to Dayton will take around 40 - 45 m... (more)

The gravel and cement trucks will have to wait for the log train to clear the crossing while on its way out of Shelton with waterwood destined for Mill 5, some 8 miles west of here.

The log trains run by the tide schedule, which affects when they can load wood out of the bay. So when the the railroad makes a run up the hill later in the afternoon you will see them tack on th... (more)

Setting out center beams for the shipping department downtown last October. The railroad is currently (January, 2014) in a holding pattern since an incident on December 26th, 2013 in which a load... (more)

ESWR train traversing the rocky New Mexican landscape near HWY 509 on the morning run up to Peabody Coal Company's Lee Ranch Mine.