A classic BN SD60M races south along the shore of Puget Sound past Carkeek Park with a manifest.

An eastbound BNSF Z train crawls out of the hole at Scenic after waiting for a tunnel flush. Two fresh feet of snow fell overnight which helped make that mountains look fantastic!

When the meteorologists in the Seattle area started talking about a Winter Storm Warning on Stevens Pass, it made contributors Dale Skyllingstad and Drew Mitchem and myself pack up and make the de... (more)

A long empty oil train glides through the dip near Dryden as it heads east. It's on it's last few miles before it stops in Wenatchee for a crew change.

An eastbound BNSF Q train passes over a beautiful waterfall east of Skykomish, WA just after passing over the Foss River Trestle.

Amtrak train 513 get's a unexpected bath! Due to extremely high winds and high tide, the storm surge was higher than I have ever seen it before on the Puget Sound! Waves were literally coming up a... (more)

CP 8742 leads four Boeing 737 fuselages west past milepost 18 in Edmonds, WA on a COLD fall morning.

CSX 5450 leads a long S LPCTAC stack train up the 2.2% grade at "The Slot" just west of Merritt, WA on BNSF's Scenic Subdivision over Stevens Pass.

CREX 1408 leads an empty oil train eastbound just before entering the Winton Tunnel.

The lights of Stevens Pass Ski Resort illuminate the sky as Amtrak's eastbound Empire Builder #8 continues it's journey east and is about to enter the 7.8 mile long Cascade Tunnel. Off in the dist... (more)

An eastbound empty coal train quietly glides past milepost 18 in Edmonds, WA on the BNSF Scenic Subdivision. This was the first sunny day we've had in awhile.

An eastbound empty coal train throttles up out of the Baring siding on the west side of Stevens Pass. This ended up being a very long trip for the crew seeing they had to stop at every siding to m... (more)

It's not so common to see an SD40-2 and an SD9 leading a through freight on the Scenic Subdivision these days. Both of the engines were online as well! Here they are seen rolling east through the ... (more)

Amtrak 156 prepares to depart Edmonds station on it's last few miles to it's final destination in Seattle.

The Sounder game train slows into Mukilteo for a short station stop to pick up game fans heading to Seattle.