Amtrak's switcher idles in the sunlight with unused/broken pieces of the Amtrak Cascades Talgo trainset sit in the background.

BNSF 134 is just a glimmer in large window on the back of this track geometry car which is sitting, tied down for the night while the crew gets some rest.

The morning Amtrak Cascades stops in Edmonds to pick up passengers heading to Vancouver, BC.

The first Sounder of the evening, sporting the new Tacoma "City of Destiny" paint scheme... not that anything good can ever come out of Tacoma!

Running Christmas fund raiser special for the Oregon Heritage Rail Foundation in order to pay for a permanent home for this beautiful locomotive.

Track crews use the electromagnet here to move fishplates from the hopper car and drop them on the track bed.

Here comes the Amtrak Cascade!

In a new push to increase safety on the rails BNSF has opted to implement much smaller flatcars and more intelligent locomotives. (Track crews used these cars to distribute fishplates.)

As any European train should, this Talgo trainset fits itself nicely into one shot.

The F59PHI is a beautiful machine, seen both in Amtrak Cascades (background) and Sounder (foreground) livery.

It's a rare day in Seattle when snow sticks to the ground. This large storm created many opportunities for snowy photographs in the city!

The sun was setting and the crew ready to end their almost 12 hour long shift as I snapped this shot on the way down from the locomotive after it received a green signal.

You know the dark Pacific Northwest winter's days are numbered when the Sounders start running in the daylight!

The last few fiery sun rays illuminate this empty grain train coming around towards Carkeek park.

Today Sound Transit celebrates the 10th anniversary of commuter rail in the greater Seattle area. Starting in 2000, with a few daily trains between Seattle and Tacoma, the service has expanded to ... (more)