Yakima Valley Transportation interurban roots could easily be seen in the street trackage at 6th and W.Pine as #298 returns light from Selah heading for the YVT carbarn a few blocks away.

Amtrak's switcher idles in the sunlight with unused/broken pieces of the Amtrak Cascades Talgo trainset sit in the background.

Built in 1909, Yakima Valley Transportation line car "A" was still at work in 1971 removing wire from an unused spur on the line to Wiley City. Today, the car is still operational at the YVT muse... (more)

YVT #298 is working in parent Union Pacific's yard in Yakima.

A not-so-quiet day in Yardly. The duo of locos are in remote control mode and blocking this grade crossing for about 10 minutes. Drivers were hoking at the train in hopes of it moving. Their crew ... (more)

Inbound to Yakima from the Selah packing houses, Yakima Valley Transportation #298 is rolling along the former interurban trackage. Owner Union Pacific later donated this track to the City of Yaki... (more)

Snow falls as a heavy eastbound manifest pulls up to the siding at Scenic Washington to find 9 rail fans waiting. In a rare event the conductor hops off his train and for the next 2 hours the rai... (more)

You may not pass.

Sparks fly as one of the track replacement crew slices through the new rail.

These eyes watch you. They control you. They move you. They stop you.

The Death of a Boxcar! This car and the tanker in the background, were involved in the 10/17/2007 derailment at Steilacoom. Photo of the pile up - Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: n/a
Location: Tacoma, Washington, USA
Locomotive #: n/a
Train ID: n/a
Photo Date: November 19, 2007

Spirit of '76' 1976. The second BN "Bicentennial" 1976, nee-GN 323/BN 9853/6397. Renumbered back to BN 6397 in January 1979. Only 20 SDP40s built - six for GN and fourteen for NdeM.

Narrow Gauge White Pass 114 rebuilt at CEECO, after 9/3/06 derailment near Skagway Alaska, on it's way to a ship in Tacoma. Cli... (more)

A NB Freight derailed 13 cars at about 3am this morning. No Hazardous, No injuries. Steilacoom Ferry dock closed for several hours and only some soybeans hit the water, besides this boxcar. B... (more)

The Spirit of Washington Dinner train makes its first run up the Tacoma Gulch with passengers on board. This trip was a VIP run the afternoon of August 3rd, 2007. Later that evening they ran t... (more)