Amtrak 507 coasts along the Puget Sound on the evening of July 7th rounding Steilacoom Curve just after crossing the lift-bridge at milepost 14. Later in the year Amtrak would discontinue service ... (more)

Amtrak 90252 leads A507 south at CP Ruston with Mount Rainier in the background. This scene cannot be repeated with an Amtrak now that they have switched over to the infamous Point Defiance Bypass

Thursday 11/18/21 was the first day for passenger trains on the Pt Defiance bypass, Sound Transits Lakewood sub. Cascades 503 was the first passenger train on the route, this time around. The Lake... (more)

Wednesday 11/17/21 was the last day for passenger trains on the Pt Defiance portion of BNSF's Seattle Sub. The next day, the Cascades and Starlights moved to the Lakewood Sub. With that move, s... (more)

The afternoon Cascades service from Eugene to Seattle nears Junction City, Oregon. It is passing the water tower for the new Oregon State Hospital, which opened a few years ago. The hill in the di... (more)

With the second and third Tacoma Narrows Bridges looming in the distance, an afternoon Cascades skirts the shores of Puget Sound. Within the next few weeks, all Amtrak traffic should be re-routed... (more)

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.

Amtrak Cascades Train no. 507 speeds through Puyallup, WA on a warm spring afternoon with Mt. Rainer standing over 14,000 feet tall in the distance.

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)

An old Amtrak F40, now NPCU leads a southbound Amtrak Cascades train towards Washington, as it is silhouetted by the setting sun.

One of Amtrak’s Amtrak Cascades trains, number 508 heading from Oregon’s Eugene/Springfield to Seattle, Washington, passes the BNSF Railway’s Vancouver Yard after departing the statio... (more)

A special Talgo operation for Oregon DOT heads south on the Siskiyou Line near Ashland.

Under threatening skies, UP 4835 (SD70M) brings a new Amtrak Cascades / Washington State Department of Transportation #1408 Siemens SC-44 'Charger' unit down the Moffat Tunnel sub heading for Denv... (more)

Amtrak Cascades F40PH NPCU 90253 brings up the rear of the Vancouver BC Bound Amtrak 516 on a sunny November Morning

Amtrak Cascades at Tin Rock: Amtrak train 519 rounds a curve as it approaches the Fairhaven Station in Bellingham. The rock seen in the water is actually a pile of scrap tin that was discar... (more)