The sun is setting as the daily Q passes around Picnic Point at a good clip of 50mph.

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BNSF 7153 sits in the Siding at MP 18 for the passage of one of two Sounder Coummuter Trains. This BNSF Train still needs to wait for Amtrak Empire Builder.

BNSF 7018 leaves the siding at MP 18 after waiting for a Sounder Commuter and Amtrak Empire Builder. It is a garbage local and the train is full of garbage, so it STINKS!!

BNSF 7153 leaves the siding at MP 18. The Train is carrying containers full of strong odor of garbages. Notice the loco cam?

UP 4449 gives everyone a great show as it heads south to Tacoma.

SP 4449 rounds the bend near MP 21 to the sound of camera shutters clicking away.

UP 844 pours on some oil to give us a show as it approaches Edmonds Station.

SP 4449 and UP 844 make their way north to Everett, but not before putting on a show for all of us gathered to watch!

Passing the ferry terminal in Edmonds

Track crews use the electromagnet here to move fishplates from the hopper car and drop them on the track bed.

In a new push to increase safety on the rails BNSF has opted to implement much smaller flatcars and more intelligent locomotives. (Track crews used these cars to distribute fishplates.)

The southbound Amtrak Cascades shows off for anxious railfans waiting for the double headed steam (SP 4449 & UP 844) working its way from Tacoma.

Expecting the typical Talgo trainset the Cascades surprises viewers with this Amtrak California locomotive and several Superliner cars including a Sightseer Lounge car.

WOW!!! UP 844 and SP 4449 double head on a steam special heading south towards Edmonds. It was a very good day.