A roundhouse scene: The Simpson lokies don't get out much these days except for a bit of switching in the mornings. The 900 is in the near stall, then the 1200 and 1201 while the 1202 reposes in ... (more)

"The Miserable Mile" on the Simpson Railroad, so named by the crews from enduring this last stretch of the trip; a slow, bouncy, flat mile of rail before reaching Mill 5.

The Herzog work train taking main #2 at Edmonds.

The lights of Stevens Pass Ski Resort illuminate the sky as Amtrak's eastbound Empire Builder #8 continues it's journey east and is about to enter the 7.8 mile long Cascade Tunnel. Off in the dist... (more)

The 1200 called in sick today, so it's staying in the roundhouse waiting on the mechanic's attention. Something is causing it to regularly blow a fuse.

Setting out center beams for the shipping department downtown last October. The railroad is currently (January, 2014) in a holding pattern since an incident on December 26th, 2013 in which a load... (more)

MILW 502 works with their wreck crane putting derailed cars back on the track at Auburn, WA while UP's Valley Local from Kent heads south towards Sumner. This is MILW-UP joint trackage, and UP wou... (more)

Tacoma Rail SD45 rebuild #3001 leads a rare passenger train through the neighborhoods south of downtown Tacoma. This train was a special for the 2011 NRHS convention and was bound for Eatonville t... (more)

Simpson Timber Company #1200 leads a train of empties into a clearing in the forest on the way to the Dry Sort Yard at Mill Five. Soon this train will be paralleling the Shelton-Matlock Road on th... (more)

Simpson Timber Company #1200 leads a train of empties through a clearing in the forest on the way to the Dry Sort Yard at Mill Five. Once this train arrives at Mill Five, these unique homemade cen... (more)

Simpson Timber Company #1200 leads a train of empties through the forest on the way to the Dry Sort Yard at Mill Five. This is the last operating remnant of the once extensive Simpson Timber Compa... (more)

Washington Central F9PHA, ex B&O F3A 165 ,leads the Sprit Of Washington Dinner Train Northbound along Lake Washington.

Washington Central’s two former MARC (Maryland Transit Administration) EMD F9PH Nos. 82 and 84 sit silently at the small enginehouse at Yakima, Washington, on May 31, 2008. These locomotives wer... (more)

Moving through an ess curve at the lower end of the Sand Cut grade, the 1200 begins to dig in for the last couple miles up the hill with thirty one loads. Two other engines were helping the effor... (more)

"She won't go another further." On the Simpson Railroad at rails end, 10 miles out from the Shelton waterfront, the 1201 has pulled up on the last few yards of the former mainline, now used as a l... (more)