At a location alongside Goldsborough Creek the 1202 ducks through the forest while hauling logs on a trip uphill to the dry sort .

About one half hour after having departed Toledo the Hauler is nearing the Yaquina River Valley community of Elk City. It is about eight miles into a 7+ hour, 74.7 mile long trek over the Coast R... (more)

The inner sanctum of the operation. The old girl waits for her next assignment. Sister 900 sits in the wall-side stall.

Southbound, along Puget Sound Between Steilacoom and Solo Point, Washington. Lucky deal to know someone who owns a motorboat :).

Passengers on the Empire Builder are about to be treated to the sight of a trackside hobo camp at dinnertime in the Cascade Mountains under a crescent moon

Hauling a stack train upgrade through "The Slot" alongside Nason Creek in Washington State's Cascade Mountains.

Scattered clouds at Canyon Diablo as this eastbound stacker passed through.

Western Washington Railroad job at Ford's Prairie (Blakeslee JCT), about to come off the line from Maytown with a couple of propane tank cars for the BN yard in Centralia, Washington. Down the str... (more)

A shiny, new engine wearing an old number in front of a short Q stack heading west over the Wenatchee River on the Chumstick Cut-off. It will make easy work of the mountain grade ahead on its way... (more)

Dave Buben guides the 1200 through plant trackage while the 1202 waits for a helper assignment on the mid day log train to Mill 5.

Amtrak Cascades engineer gives a wave before passing under Waldrick Road overpass on a Veterans' Day run to Portland, OR

At "Knights" the log job is returning empties after the morning run up to Mill 5.

Looking across the Columbia River Gorge from Rowena, OR a coal train powered by two different models of GE power and an EMD ACe head west across the fill just out of Lyle.

And the wait begins...after a trip up the hill shoving at the rear of this log train, Jerry situates the 1202 on the main while logs are removed from the loaded train parked on the pass. It may ta... (more)

The daily westbound Spokane - Everett mixed freight passes the old GN signal bridge, and is within three miles of the Cascade summit and tunnel.