Mount Rainier Scenic's Polson Logging #70, has a meet with their Willamette #2 (a Shay copy), outside the shops and museum at Mineral.

Add this to your "must-see" list of Heritage units. Fresh from the Progress Rail paint shop and just in time for Tacoma Rail's annual Open house.

New Cab Control Car?? Arbitrary date of photo.

Another fantastic sunset that the passengers of Cascades 508 were able to witness from the comfort of their seats.

One of the most spectacular sunsets I've ever seen kept me entranced elsewhere. As it faded, it dawned on me that perhaps Bridge 14 might have something to offer. Only wish I'd have arrived earl... (more)

Very difficult to ignore this location! It's early evening and BNSF's empty garbage train is heading back to Everett, over the unique Chamber's Creek bridge. Here's some of my other shots of th... (more)

A WB BNSF stack train is snaking through Sunset Jct and heading for the Columbia River Sub, with one or two more crew changes to go before reaching it's destination in Seattle or Tacoma.

A WB BNSF freight snakes out of the siding at Avery, just west of Wishram. The lights of the The Dalles, Oregon are off in the distance, home to the world famous GorgeRail slideshow that conclude... (more)

Santa Fe in the Pacific NorthWest. Ex ATSF 5098 brings up the rear of the Roy Turn. A few mile south at Nisqually, the train will reverse directions and take the old NP Prairie line up to about ... (more)

ODOT1 - Oh Dat 1 ugly piece of rolling stock. The newest Cascades Talgo set, sporting a cab car that could only have been designed by a committee, rolls through Tacoma for the first time, and it d... (more)

One of two tiny stretches of street running in Tacoma. This one is BNSF's line, delivering a couple loads of ethanol to the refinery at the north end of "D" street. The crewmen is a keeping a c... (more)

Mirror, mirror.. The still waters that precede the Roza dam on the Yakima river, provides this wonderful reflective vista. Click... (more)

Illustrating a time honored railroad engineering practice of following a river to get from point A to point B, the Yakima Valley sub, in part, winds it way through the Yakima River Canyon between ... (more)

Tacoma's Union Station may now officially be a Federal Courthouse, but it is also something of an Art Gallery and Museum. From the statue of the early 1900's passenger out front, to the Art Glass... (more)

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.