Wintertime at "The Slot." One day prior to a substantial snow storm that blanketed the entire Puget Sound, a westbound BN manifest works it's way up the eastern slope of Stevens Pass. Now I know... (more)

One can almost hear the long ago din and bustle of the Great Northern Railroad town of Wellington echo off the walls of the first snowshed on the line down to Skykomish. The structure is now part... (more)

As Burlington Northern GP50 3107 heads south with its train through Seattle, Washington, it passes one of the former Melbourne, Australia, streetcars in service on the Waterfront Trolley Line, whi... (more)

BNSF 9727 leads a trio of SD70MACs at "daylighted" Tunnel 6 over Stampede Pass. The tunnel bore remains can be seen at bottom right. This particular cut of hoppers is destined for the Spring Cr... (more)

A loaded coal train from Buckskin Mine destined for Portland General Electric's Boardman Coal Plant in Oregon rumbles across the 3,920' Joso Bridge, spanning the Snake River at Lyons Ferry Park. ... (more)

Priority train, Bedford Park IL. to Tacoma WA., waits in the clear at Merritt as an eastbound vehicle train comes off the 2.2, and passes with dyno's whining.

This is my first catch of a ex-BN SD70MAC as it leads a Boeing/Intermodal Train. The train causes a wind that would cause the snow to fly everywhere.

Holding at East Berne. After an eastbound stack train passes, we will run east of the east switch and plow west up the main.

No missing this ex-NP unit's pedigree, what with that magnificent bell. This was once a passenger unit, thus the "torpedo boat" air tanks.

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

Loaded Roberts Bank coal train rolls along the Columbia River.

The plow continues to move the right-of-way over the side of the high bridge on BNSF's Stampede line. (Thats right Northwesteners, plow in the winter on Stampede. I'll let that sink in for a while... (more)

A shot in the winter off Stampede Pass is rare enough, but the plow?! The most unfriendly crew I've ever met runs the plow over the pass to move the right-of-way a little further off to the sides.... (more)

One of my favorite shots from last winter (06/07) at one of my favorite spots known to fellow rail fans as “The Slot”. This shot means a lot to me on a 11° day that started off with a some w... (more)

Record heavy snows buried Stevens Pass last December so BNSF wastes no time bringing out the big guns to clear the Right of Way. At one point over the scanner I hear BNSF engineer Michael “Mad-... (more)