Power at the rear of a log train pushing up the aptly named "Sand Cut". At 2.2%, the grade is the steepest and most challenging piece of the railroad. Once in a while, if the rail is wet or the ... (more)

After helping to shove a log train up the 2.2% "Sand Cut" these two switchers have cut off at the top and are returning light to town. The railroad passes through sections of deep woods with a fee... (more)

Rolling across the 1914 vintage Bridge 14 double counter-weighted lift span at Chambers Bay with a few tons of garbage

Evening glint catches the Coast Starlight in the last hour of its run to Seattle hugging the shoreline at Steilacoom, just south of the ferry dock.

At this time of the day Steilacoom is a quiet, laid back town as it is off the "beaten path". This scene was shot from the county ferry dock. A boater pulls up to the public pier as (what I beli... (more)

Heading south along the Puget Sound shoreline a K-Line stack train crosses the lift span of Bridge 14 outside Steilacoom at Chambers Bay. Built in 1914, this bridge is the last of its design left ... (more)

Engine 470, still wrapped in its King Tut livery, whisks the evening Amtrak Cascades train 509 southbound along Puget Sound where it passes the town's vacant and decaying 1914 vintage Northern Pac... (more)

The 1202 and 1201 await their job at the rear of the log train which is soon to depart the dock with 40 loads of waterwood destined for the dry-sort yard, 9½ miles away.

Hoggers Sterling and Brandon shoot the breeze while waiting for the log train to be unloaded. Mill 5 is just beyond the fence, and South Mountain is shrouded in clouds. When they leave, the 1201... (more)

The stacker has finally removed the last load of logs and the 1200 winds up for the return to Shelton.

PSAP switch job was setting up some empty center-beams at the pass in Shelton, late afternoon on the first day of spring.

About one mile out from the dry-sort yard and with South Mountain as a backdrop, the 1201 eases into a 2.2% downgrade at the top of the hill. This trip they are hauling logs back to Mill 3 at the... (more)

A sign that The Economy appears to have turned around some: It's Saturday, and the crews have been working six days a week moving lots of waterwood and lumber. Here they are returning to town wi... (more)

The daily Spokane-Everett freight drops from Quincy to the Columbia River via the Lynch Coulee and Trinidad curve. An old wood bridge provides an overhead view looking eastward up the valley.

Code lines and cattails along a fast, straight track at 15:11 PM near Adams Road east of Quincy.