VANCOUVER WA October 4 2013 — BNSF C44-9W 4551 leads a bulk commodity train on one of the balloon tracks at Terminal 5. The Port of Vancouver built the facility as part of the West Vancouver Fre... (more)

FLAGSTAFF AZ July 6 1986 — Santa Fe GP35u 2904 awaits its next assignment. EMD built the unit in August 1956 as GP35 1404 and delivered it with a blue body and yellow ends (bookends). In the Mar... (more)

VANCOUVER WA May 4 2011 — Amtrak P42DC 134 slows for a station stop with the southbound Coast Starlight. General electric built the unit (s/n 52814) in December 2000. My photo.

OKLAHOMA CITY OK Dec 18 1983 — BN GP 38-2 2288 lays over at the sanders in the former Frisco yard off Byars Avenue southeast of downtown. EMD delivered the unit to the Frisco in August 1974 as S... (more)

OKLAHOMA CITY OK Nov 16 1980 — BN GP38-2 2308 idles at the engine shed awaiting its next assignment. EMD built the unit in January 1975 for the Frisco as SLSF 453. My photo.

VANCOUVER WA July 8 2011 — UP SD70ACe 8408 leads a mixed freight south toward the Columbia River Bridge and Oregon. The Amtrak station is to the right. My photo.

OKLAHOMA CITY OK Dec 18 1983 — MKT GP40 178 poses for a roster shot at the former Rock Island Harter Yard. At this time the facility was operated by the Oklahoma Kansas Texas (a Katy subsidiary)... (more)

VANCOUVER WA Feb 19 2011 — Columbia Business Center CBCX SSB1200 565 shows off its new paint job. It is tied down east of the interchange track. The elevated BNSF mains are in the background. Co... (more)

KANSAS CITY KS March 10 1979 — Kansas City Southern NW2 4200 is ready for a switching job. My photo.

VAUGHN NM Sept 3 1983 — Santa Fe C30-7 8165 passes a signal with a TOFC train. GE built the unit (s/n 44079) in December 1982 with black on white number boards, a roof-mounted air conditioning u... (more)

MARYHILL WA May 4 2008 — BNSF ES44DC 7582 travels west with a mixed freight in tow. My photo.

MARYHILL WA May 4 2008 — With Mount Hood in the background BNSF ES44DC 7592, BNSF C44-9W 771 and BNSF SD40-2 7800 head east in the Columbia River Gorge at the head end of an autorack train. My p... (more)

VANCOUVER WA Jan 18 2014 — Sterling Bomba SW8 203 (b/n 15739) sits to the south of a Columbia Business Park warehouse. The locomotive was acquired by the Northwest Railroad institute. The unit w... (more)

UNDERWOOD WA Aug 6 2019 — Westbound BNSF SD70ACe 9026 exits a short tunnel and passes milepost 69. In only a few feet the train will pass under Washington State Highway 14. In this photo the tra... (more)

PORTLAND OR Aug 20 1981 — Southern Pacific SW1500 2645 handles a caboose hop at North Albina Avenue east of Union Pacific’s Albina Yard. Photo by Charles Stookey.