Amtrak No. 11 the southbound Coast Starlight rolls through Sunnyside Beach Park on Puget Sound in Steilcoom Wa.

Northbound Cascades at sunset on the Puget Sound. Once again, scenes like this are not long for this world, even now pretty rare, with the retirement of the Series 6 Talgo train sets.

A Union Pacific intermodal train crosses Chambers Bay drawbridge in late afternoon light along Puget Sound at Steilacoom, WA. The double track line is owned by BN (BNSF now) and used by UP and Amt... (more)

With it's namesake mountains behind the camera, Cascades 505 crosses Bridge 14 at a very low tide, with Mt Rainier out of sight of the train's passengers, but in plane (err drone) view from this v... (more)

A Seattle bound grain train rolls through a golden sunset at Steilacoom, WA

You never know when it could be gone. It's only been a year and a half since this photo was taken on July 9, 2019 in Steilacoom, WA, but so much has changed. In just another six months, the COV... (more)

With California wildfire smoke tinted sun for a background, the UP/CP oil train is creeping across the approach to Bridge 14. The dispatcher just "talked by" the crew against a red sign... (more)

With a smoky sunset aligned with Bridge 14, this UP Oil train tiptoes gingerly across the bridge, just in case.... The dispatcher just "talked by" the crew against a red signal, as the bridge is... (more)

Wildfire smoke has returned to the Puget Sound, at the cost of other's misery, we get an interesting sunset. Just in time is this UP oil train from Canada, complete with Heritage unit CP 7012. T... (more)

This is a BNSF Vehicle train, led by an NS unit, with a CP 8127 as a tail-end DPU.

A Seattle to Portland manifest wraps around the Tacoma Narrows as is heads by the old Steilacoom passenger depot.

Amtrak Cascade behind an NPCU converted from an old F40PH passes the abandoned Steilacoom station.

A Union Pacific stack train head around the curve and towards Tacoma Narrows as it passes through picturesque Steilacoom Washington.

Cascades 518 sprints through a golden sunset on the south Puget Sound. Just past the Steilacoom Ferry dock, it's about 15 minutes late, but right on time of the sunset.

Cascades 505 heads to Portland on the tail end of a snow storm that brought a fair amount of sea level snow to the Puget Sound. The storm also brought some wind, kicking up the waves along the so... (more)