A BNSF Ossifer's pecial on it's way to beautiful downtown Bakersfield CA, blasts under the Tacoma Narrows bridges. This train has been spotted all around the west and this has got to be one of th... (more)

This train just came down from Seattle on a Sunday afternoon. Sounder has no regular weekend service. It will probably be the first train out Monday morning. Three more trains are in the yard abou... (more)

There are three trains in the yard and one in the station (behind the camera) on this Sunday evening.

An Amtrak Cascade skims along the shores of Puget Sound, as it passes through the Chambers Creek golf course.

In the spirit of this political season, I bring you Change. Change you can count on, or could, until this train ran over it. Nailed and spit out by Axle #1, it's a heartbeat away from being batt... (more)

America's Most Dangerous Volcano looms over a southbound BNSF intermodal as it leaves Tacoma for points south and out of the reach of Mt Rainier. Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: GE C44-9W (Dash 9-44CW)
Location: Tacoma, Washington, USA
Locomotive #: BNSF 4854
Train ID: n/a
Photo Date: July 16, 2008

Night falls on a clear Tacoma night, as a full moon has risen from behind Mt Rainier. Now the Tacoma Link street car becomes the ghost along with the NP Prairie line. Mt Rainier’s faint prese... (more)

Ahh, just a photo of Sound Transit’s Tacoma Link, but really so much more. How many trains can you find? A Cascades under rock candy, a pumpkin behind a cable stay bridge. The Domes of old ... (more)

Mt. Rainier is sporting a Lenticular cloud, as Cascades 507 heads for the Nelson Bennett tunnel and a meet with a late Cascades 506. Had 507 been a tad slower, I could have captured the meet at t... (more)

UP's daily garbage train rolls past the BNSF Moon yard and the Temco yard tracks, along with one of Temco's durable GP9s. In the background the HMS Bounty is open for tour as part of the Tacoma T... (more)

America's most dangerous and powerfull - volcano. Flower power - the power of Digitalis, heart medicine in the form of wild Foxglove. An interesting setting for more even power, 17600 horses pulli... (more)

This MP caboose used on a Fife based UP local was involved in a collision with a Wood chip truck, after the driver's ill advised right turn. The caboose definitely won! Railroad: Union Pacific
Locomotive: n/a
Location: Tacoma, Washington, USA
Locomotive #: n/a
Train ID: s53
Photo Date: May 16, 2008

This Fife based UP local ends up T-Boning a Wood chip trailer with their caboose, after the driver's ill advised right turn. A crowd of officials, police officers and bystanders watch as the Con... (more)

A Fife based UP local ends up T-Boning a Wood chip trailer with their caboose, after the driver's ill advised right turn. Train 1, Truck 0. New job in future for the truck driver. more)

Something new for CEECO to be proud of!! Savage Industries will soon be putting this shiny "new" locomotive to work. www.savageind.com