As the sun is about to set, a Pasco, WA to Tacoma, WA manifest freight soaks up the last rays of light just east of Home Valley, WA on 8/23/14.

BNSF 274 leads a Seattle to Pasco manifest freight past Maryhill siding as Mt. Hood stands tall in the background.

A very late running #7 meets its counterpart, #8, at the west side of the Cascade Tunnel at Scenic Siding on 6/26/14.

The DP's and train on the NS 8099 west glint in red as the sun sets behind hazy skies on 11/15/14. There was a inversion in the area causing all of the haze.

"Tip to Tail" NS 8099 eases into the final curve before arriving Pasco, WA and a crew change on November 15, 2014.

NS 8099 passes by the grain elevator at Eltopia, WA.

NS 8099 heads west past the ex-NP Depot in Connell, WA

NS 8099 heads west at track speed around the big curve at Mesa, WA.

NS 8099 brings it's heavy oil train to a stop as it waits to crossover behind a late running Amtrak #27 on a frosty morning on Providence Hill.

A late running Amtrak train #27 glides down Providence Hill, at the Beatrice crossovers with a plowed but frosty wheat field in the foreground.

A late running Amtrak train #27 glides down Providence Hill, nearing the Beatrice crossovers as the NS 8099 and its oil train do the same on a chilly November morning. Both trains were side by sid... (more)

As the sun drops down below a deck of clouds minutes before sunset, Amtrak Train #28, the Portland section of the Empire Builder, drops down Providence Hill as the sun glints off of the second P42... (more)

NS 8099 leads the first oil load bound for the new Conoco Phillips Refinery in Ferndale, WA west through the Paha Coulee near Lind, WA on a chilly November morning.

"Hey, it matches!" Amtrak 184 is solo leading Amtrak train #7, the Empire Builder, over Gaynor Trestle on a cloudy early summer morning just east of the Cascade Tunnel and Berne Siding.... (more)

"Peek-a-Boo!" BNSF 4719 leads a grain empty along the Columbia River, just about to enter the Drano Tunnel between Cooks, WA and Hood, WA.