Northern Pacific Alcos 912 and 908 are at the shops in Pasco, WA in the summer of 1970. Note the differing style of numbers and a roof mounted bell on only one of the units.

Another in an endless parade of grain trains rolls along the Columbia River during the summer of 2010.

A colorful consist pulls a long string of cars toward the hump.

BN SD40-2 8084 leads eastbound grain train G04 out of Pasco, Washington.

Eastbound grain empties cross the Columbia River as it approaches the Pasco yard.

Shorn of its Northern Pacific monad but still in NP green, #9814 is making its stop at Pasco, WA, with the North Coast Limited, now a BN train

No, you're not seeing things, this IS a BN C30-7! It's one of two remaining; the 5549 (also known as Jean-Marc Frybourg's ghost C30-7) is also stored nearby, facing the other direction. The... (more)

A westbound earthworm staggers through the yard, about to stop for a crew change, as storm clouds form in the background.

BNSF's Pasco Hump at night.

Some BNSF GE units sit shutdown in the cooking sun of Eastern Washington.

Hopper being readied for the scrappers torch in the BNSF yard, also includes the cut of cars on the track behind the ballast hopper, they will be shipped somewhere else to be scrapped.

Grain train rolls into the Pasco yard

power sits in the yard at Pasco with a rainbow in the background

Built in 1951 for the US Army, this old Geep used to work the Hanford Nuclear Facility. It now belongs to the Washington State Railroads Historical Society, who has plans to repaint it.

Union Pacific is hauling the BNSF locomotives somewhere.