Dashing through the snow: Winter has finally arrived in the Pacific Northwest, and with it comes more trouble for Amtrak's Empire Builder. Running some six hours late on a snowy Satu... (more)

BN's southbound Nelson local has just crossed the international border along the Columbia River and is heading to its home terminal at Kettle Falls Wash.

Weyerhaeuser Woods Railroad “Woods Train” drifts downgrade over Evergreen Road in Ostrander toward its destination of the huge Weyerhaeuser mill complex in Longview, WA. Within the next 2 mil... (more)

In the mid-1960s EMD constructed new passenger power for a handful of railroads. These units were modified freight power - SD35s, SD40s and SD45s with steam generators included. Here we see one ... (more)

Exiting Green Mountain Mill on it's final trip to Longview, Wa. Weyerhaeuser's Woods Train crosses the South Fork Toutle River for the last time. The concrete span is a replacement; the result of... (more)

The 1202 is on the end of a log train moving through the back yards of downtown Shelton at the beginning of a trip uphill to Dayton. The bridge is the new one which, in February 2010, replaced th... (more)

It's The Water! It's downtown Olympia on a warm mid-summer Friday and Tacoma Rail's "Belmore" Local crosses Capitol Lake on it's way to work industry in Tummwater's Mottman Industrial Park.... (more)

Build in 1889, Bridge 85.54, one of the many bridges between Pullman and Colfax, has seen more history than our parents. It's 111 year railroading history is coming to an end as the last train pre... (more)

Loaded coal rolling across the desert of Eastern Washington.

A loco is turned on the wye at Colfax in the narrow Palouse River valley before heading south with a train to Moscow Id. This was the original UP(OWRN) line to Spokane before the Avery cutoff over... (more)

The 4018 along with its HATX workmates is heading light with one tank car uphill towards Bayshore Siding to pick up the rest of its train and will then continue on to the Kitsap County transfer st... (more)

A rather colorless background despite living in the Evergreen State. The colors have long since disappeared, replaced with the even hues of brown and dirt. Over the Emerald City, the sun and blue ... (more)

A mid-afternoon southbound service pulls out of Mt. Baker Station; the train will shortly return to street level for the run down the Rainier Valley. The flared tips on the catenary poles are sup... (more)

UP's Electronic Brake test train crosses the Puyallup River on it's way to join the BNSF Seattle Sub at CP Reservation, a few hundred feet away. The mighty Puyallup river is brown with mud, aft... (more)

One of many great locations along the Scenic Sub, Deception Creek is much easier to reach when the only snow around is on the nearby mountain peaks. BNSF has kindly provided a Z train to complet... (more)