A hand full of farms dot the Yakima Canyon line. Not much is grown besides cattle, apples, and grass.
The crew boards and gets ready to roll.
Light power moves south to pick up a train from the South Seattle Intermodal terminal. Beautiful day for a cityscape shot.
A visitor from out of town makes a trip over Stevens Pass.
Waiting
The train is gone and life returns to normal for kids playing on the beach. For the first time in many a month, the Sounder is riding the outside rail!
You can almost see my house in this shot! The city of Edmonds pokes out from the trees and Sunset Ave (one of the top 100 places to railfan in North America [Trains Mag]) is clearly visible. The ... (more)
Under Millenium Park lies the northern terminal of the Chicago South Shore electric line. CSS&SBRR certainly has some good looking juice jacks! A pleasant change from the Metra F40's.
Mountain meets urban as Metra 210 struggles to pull a loaded commuter train up and out of the city on its way west. Beautiful cityscape.
Metra 150 holds well outside of Ogilvie in the queue of trains ready to take riders home for the evening rush. We, on the other hand, have an approach slow on our way to Ogilvie.
Train 619 picks up speed as it rolls out of LaSalle Station and heads towards Joilet.
"Platform clear, lets go home"
The Metra Electric silently glides to a stop.
Some BNSF GE units sit shutdown in the cooking sun of Eastern Washington.
The leaves flutter in the bright, new-summer sun for a BNSF stack train passing over Stevens.
