One damp evening in February 1975 a colorful group of F units gathered at the turntable at BN's Seattle Interbay roundhouse. Former GN F45s, BN 6006 and 6000 mate up, flanked by Amtrak SDP40F (ear... (more)

After grabbing a shot of this train under cloudy skies at Portage, I like the train headed north for Anchorage. As I got near Girdwood I could see that it was likely the sun would dip below the cl... (more)

I was a newcomer to Seattle in summer 1974, and a GN fan. What a pleasant surprise it was to come across GN 98, an SW8 built a few weeks after I was born, in June 1951, still wearing its GN number... (more)

Geep Renaissance: The Alaska Railroad powered a rail train with 5 Geeps. Seen here at Brookman with 3 GP40-2s and 2 GP38-2s in 3 separate paint schemes. To make things even better the rear of the ... (more)

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)

Yakima Valley Transportation's "A" Car, a 1909 porduct, performs some street running, returning from a local set out of some work equipment in downtown Yakima, WA. Clearly, movement of ... (more)

WRIX 602 is being serviced at the Albina locomotive shop. This former SP chopped nose SD9 has recently been given a MLR-esq paint job.

Amtrak's Pacific International from Vancouver has just arrived at Seattle's King Street Station as a Burlington Northern freight that had followed it south passes it behind a pair of veteran F7s. ... (more)

This may be the last or second to last, of the 5 SD70ACe's for QNS&L. Tacoma Rail facilitated it's escape from Progress Rail, and then dropped it of at BNSF's door step on a transfer job. Shou... (more)

Fall on Approach: Fall is approaching in the Pacific Northwest as the evening southbound Amtrak Cascades train nears its first station stop at Bellingham, Washington on its 4 and a half hou... (more)

Cascading Across the Bay: Amtrak train number 516 crosses Chuckanut Bay as it nears the next stop at Bellingham, Washington. This train is bound for Vancouver, B.C. I've been trying to get ... (more)

Of the 297 PA and PB locomotives built by the American Locomotive Company, only five are still extant. Four are former Santa Fe locomotives, which were purchased and later rebuilt by the Delaware... (more)

Built in 1952, this AS-616 has regained its former SP number. After leaving the SP system, the unit worked the Oregon and Northwestern, an eastern Oregon lumber railroad until the closing of the m... (more)