Framed by her natural habitat, Rayonier Willamette #2 and crew wait on the balloon loop in Mineral for their clearance to take the main for a run north to Elbe. This little clearing near t... (more)

Rayonier Willamette #2. The early morning fog keeps a relentless hold on the yard at the Mineral Shops as Rayonier Willamette #2 backs onto the main for a day of logging operations in the d... (more)

Meeting at Mineral Yard. The crew of a Rayonier Log Train takes care of some routine servicing on their Willamette Locomotive as a work train headed by Hammond Lumber Mikado #17 charges thr... (more)

Misty Mineral Morning. In a pea-soup fog so typical of the Pacific Northwest, Hammond Lumber Company #17, a beefy Mikado Saddle Tanker, switches onto the main line at the shops in Mineral, ... (more)

Under a moisture ladened sky, former Hammond Lumber Company 2-8-2T number 17 pulls Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad's passenger train over the Nisqually River in the Cascade foothills near Elbe, WA. ... (more)

Mt Rainier's Polson Logging #70 returns from Mineral with a trainload of pumpkins and passengers.

Mount Rainier Scenic's Rayonier #2 (Willamette / Shay copy) poses with Polson Loggin #70, outside the shops and museum at Mineral.

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

A view from the caboose. Looking a lot like a photo of a steam train in revenue service in the 1930's, this image of a photo freight on the Mt Rainier Scenic Railroad shows what can be accomplishe... (more)

Polson Logging Company 2-8-2 #70 hauls a freight train into the Mineral Yard on the Mt Rainier Scenic Railroad. The photo was taken during a Martin Hansen photo freight charter. Participants spent... (more)

Hammond Lumber Company #17 leads 2 passenger coaches on a railfan special up Tacoma Rail's Ex-Milwaukee Road/Chehalis Western line to Fredrickson,WA 11/27/05. The train has just departed the stati... (more)

Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad's recently restored locomotive, Polson Logging Co. #70 made a special trip to Tacoma for the annual Tacoma Rail open house. Here it is seein going over the main cross... (more)

Two fans take in the sights and sounds of the world's only operating Willamette works the Mineral Yard during an excursion for the 2011 convention of the NRHS being held in Tacoma.

MRSR steam in The Gulch. Polson #70 poppin' off as it starts to dig into the 3.3% grade of Tacoma Hill on the Mountain Division of Tacoma Rail.

Mt Rainier Scenic Railroad's newly restored Polson Logging Co. #70 climbs the "Tacoma Eastern Gulch" in Tacoma. The MRSR train was in Tacoma for a series of excursions in conjunction with a model... (more)