Out of the most "uneventful" winter in the Puget Sound, comes a stunning sunset. Finally, passengers aboard the Cascades get to see something in the sky other than gray or black.

The Starlight (almost on time) has just negotiated a path through 4 freights, all waiting for Amtrak. A couple of NB freight are sitting on Main 1 and the Tacoma Main, while a SB is waiting on M... (more)

Saved from the wrecking ball years ago, the Tacoma Union Station still stands watch over trains, trains that never will again stop at it's doors. It's function now, as seen by the reasonably well... (more)

Downtown Tacoma's Skyline provides an interesting backdrop for the nighttime work that goes on in it's backyard; The Tideflats. In this scene Job 251, using a rebuilt GP30 from CB&Q lineage, is d... (more)

At the end of the first of two beautiful rain free winter days, UP's garbage train finally rolls under the Day Island bridge and past the rows of homes along the spit. While not the best sunset ... (more)

Starry starry night! An eastbound BNSF freight lights up this night scene on it's approach in to Sandpoint and over the bridge at Pend Oreille Lake.

Amtrak 470 is anything but common while wrapped (like a mummy?) to promote the King Tutankhamen exhibit at Seattle's Pacific Science Center.

Like the setting sun, the days for views like this for passengers, are fading fast. In the not too distant future, the Cascades fares will entitle passengers to views of Dupont, Lakewood and Sou... (more)

A stunning winter sunset provides the backdrop for this northbound grain train, running along the South Puget Sound.

Tacoma Rails powered and signaled switches light a path for the crew of the BNSF STPTAC to use in setting out their train. Meanwhile, a TR crew works a cut of auto racks.

See, it's not always raining in the Pacific Northwest. On a day not warmer since 1992, Cascades 516 is treating it's passenger's to a colorful sunset along the Puget Sound, a few minutes out of T... (more)

ATCS Mon and radio conversations indicated this Z train would meet the SPOEVE at Winton, so I knew I had two trains coming through shortly. The Snow has been falling pretty good for some time now ... (more)

Ross, Joel and I have spent the last 45 minutes staked out at our chosen spots along the Skykomish River waiting for the dirt train to free itself from the embrace of winter. After what seemed l... (more)

A report of a leaning load, kept this train tied down in Gold Bar for more than 24 hours. After, which the crew had quite a tough time getting it moving again. Heavy snow fall didn't help their ... (more)

A northbound BNSF manifest rolls through the eerie fog of a winter morning along the Puget Sound. Another of my favorites from a series of Black and White conversions.