The machine is removing banding from the logs before grabbing the loads off the train. This is at the west end of the railroad, a little over 9 miles from Shelton where the logs came out of the w... (more)
With available "waterwood" in the bay the railroad has been busy hauling logs up the hill to Mill 5. The mid-day train is beginning a return to town with empty log flats.
Starting up the lokie first thing in the morning before sunrise. After the air pressure builds up they'll roll her out on the turntable and onto the railroad to do some switching at OPP and Mill ... (more)
The drama of an uphill drag on a hot day in September. The nose of the 4585 appears to be wind-burnt. Shot at a safe distance with 200mm focal length.
Eastbound morning Z drifting downhill through Gaynor in the Cascade Mountains, pic taken from "Railfan Rock".
It was worth the wait, after hiking nearly the length of Berne Siding scouting locations on a day of scant rail traffic I settled on this spot above the Berne signal bridge. The last train to pas... (more)
Simpson hogger Stick, seen in the glass, leaves the cab to line the turntable into the 1201's stall. The 1202 and 1200 are at rest on a day when Mill 5 was not operating.
The westbound 4772 pulls a stack train out of the Winton Tunnel into the afternoon sunlight. This nearly mile long tunnel is the third in a series between the Chumstick and Tumwater canyons west ... (more)
The approach of an eastbound grain train illuminates the Winton Tunnel entrance and as it disappears into the mountain the blinking FRED beckons a return to the dark of night.
After darkness falls, the inside of the mountain comes alive. The rumble and light of a fast moving vehicle train grows until it explodes out of the bore at 50 MPH.
A few days before this picture was taken a wild brush fire had blackened the side of Providence Coulee and a burnt smell still lingered.
At 6:00PM The EWG is in the last hours of its day long journey from Cheney to Coulee City WA.
Westbound full grainer about one mile south of Ritzville, WA seen from a frontage road of US 395.
Eastbound grainer in the ess curves at Essig. US 395 in the foreground.
Six units pulling a stacker amid acres of wheat land near the top of the hill at Providence, WA.
