This manifest train slowly snakes towards Edmonds after it is warned by another train that trespassers are playing on the rails.

The wrong place for a picnic: Trespassers set up their cooler on the tracks. People don't seem to understand the danger of a train VS man collision.

This stack train zips along with the water up near the tracks on this very high tide day.

A group of partying trespassers throw far too much caution to the wind as #516 passes on main 2. Note the cooler which is actually sitting on Main 1. Amtrak warns the approaching Main 1 freight w... (more)

The Daylight, together with UP 844, struts south along Puget Sound on its second of two Tacoma-Everett double-headed excursions of the weekend.

The 4449/844 double header coming through Mukilteo

OVERSIZED AND LISTING; The Boeing Local pulls into the Boeing Siding at Mukilteo with special oversized containers. Try taking that container through a tunnel.

For now it's only rain impeding this eastbound empty grain train, soon to encounter early season snowfall while crossing Stevens Pass in the Cascades.

If Boeing designers expand the dimensions of their new planes any more, BNSF is going to have to move the signal standards further back from the tracks to accommodate the containers used to ship t... (more)

Amtrak Train # 516 enters the Siding at Mukilteo, and fallows along the Puget Sound. The train was late enough to catch this sunset. This is a good way to start September. No wonder why we call th... (more)

The 2nd Sounder of the evening high balls to Everett.

After "passenger hour" BNSF makes up for lost time moving a lot of freight through the Scenic Sub.

GEVO 7611 is still looking good, some six months after I last photographed her in the snow.

Two modes of commuting from Seattle to Everett are visible here: remnants of last century's sailing schooners and today's Sounder consist.

Amtrak train #516 highballs through Mukiliteo.