After making the long, slow climb up from I-5 to over 90' above the ground to clear over HY99, Link vehicle #125 pounds the #6 scissor crossover as it slows to pull into Tukwila Station.

On a quiet Seattle night, a man looks up from his newspaper to observe a new curiosity: one of Sound Transits's new light rail vehicles glides into the tunnel below the city.

A month before revenue service begins, Link testing is in full swing. During rush hour in the Transit Tunnel, a 2-car link train rapidly accelerates to a curious crowd awaiting their buses.

A Link Light Rail train rolls to a stop in the sparkling new Beacon Hill Station. All of Link Light Rail stations and facilities feature art work. Some more artistic than others. The Beacon Hi... (more)

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The only place in the world where trains and buses share the same tunnel and stations. Under the streets of Seattle, Metro buses, Sound Transit Express buses, and Link trains pass each other under... (more)

Don't worry, everything is ok! Sound Transit is simulating an accident between a light rail vehicle and a car that made an illegal left turn. The purpose of the test was to see how the police, fir... (more)

Future operators of Sound Transit's Link Light Rail vehicles are undergoing training as they take Seattle's shiny new LRVs out for a spin well before the public has ever made a boarding.

Newly delivered this light rail vehicle is still on the ramp used to roll it off of the flatbed truck it arrived on.

Capitol Hill looms behind the storage tracks; in 2013 these trains will run underneath the hill to the University of Washington.

Three of Sound Transit's brand new LRVs sit in their yard waiting the Central Link project to open in 2009.

That upside-down flag makes me chuckle a little at this shot. One of Sound Transit's many shiny, new Link LRV's takes a spin around the O&M's testing loop.

Lined up and ready for action

Two things Seattle is known for: coffee (Tully's roastery in the former Rainer Brewery) and the big blue wave of Sound Transit.

All is quiet at Sound Transits new Link Light rail yard. These Japanese built / US assembled cars have months to get used to their new digs, as service is not expected to start until late 2009. ... (more)