Job 360 heads south through Titlow Beach at sunset with an SD60M second out.

UP 2038 brings up the rear of a UP Family Days Special which operated on a were August weekend between their Argo Yard and Black River Jct. near Tukwila giving employees and their families a chanc... (more)

Perhaps one of the hottest trains I ever witnessed, this UP hotshot led by an SD45 & DD35A and consisting of one seemingly very important mechanical reefer and a Cupola caboose, rolls onto UP trac... (more)

UP GP9 332 leads an A-B-B set of GP9s across the Puyallup River Reservation Tower (BN) and Tacoma Jct. (MILW). The train has stopped while MILW has blocked Tacoma Jct. with traffic, and will proce... (more)

Coal loads round the curve at Scribner with an H1 Dash-9 in the lead.

A pair of DPUs shove coal empties across the Rock Island bridge east of Wenatchee on the Columbia River.

Oil empties glide downhill on Stevens Pass on a cloudy afternoon in the mountains.

A rare scene that just might not ever be seen again! Tacoma Rails Hill Job or Job 101, the train to Fredrickson WA is soon to become an entry in the history books.

Tacoma Rails Mountain Divi... (more)

Northern Pacific Railway FTA 5401A, built by Electro-Motive Corporation (EMC) in March 1944 as NP 6001A, was photographed in Sumas WA along with an FTB, a GP7 and another A-B set of FTs. Sumas is... (more)

BNSF 1048 makes a surprise appearance on the Auburn-Pasco train. After loosing a motor and stalling out on Napavine Hill, 1048 was sent from Centralia, WA to bring the train east.

A lone fakebonnet moves through Kalama Yard to attach as a DPU on an empty grainer.

UP 3608 leads a freight getting ready to depart Argo Yard, Seattle. The second unit is a GP9B followed by another SD45 and an SD40 or SD40-2. UP 3603 was renumbered by 1980 to no. 3, and was retir... (more)

UP 417 takes the lead on a freight getting ready to depart their Argo Yard in Seattle, WA and head to Portland. The second unit is a Cotton Belt SD45. SD24s were fairly common on UP's Seattle boun... (more)

UP SDP35 no. 1406 is in a consist including a GP20MB and a GP30B at Seattle's Argo Yard in February 1976. The SDP35 was bought to support UP's E unit fleet in passenger service in September 1965.... (more)

UP GP30 no. 839 is in a consist ready to handle a train from Seattle to Portland. In 1974 UP scheduled 3 time freights a day each way between the two cities plus extras as needed.