Westbound and coming down the mountain just below Scenic, Stevens Pass, Washington.

As evening comes to the mountain towns of the Western Washington Cascades, so does the eastbound Seattle/Spokane section of the Empire Builder as it wends its way up Stevens Pass. Here it crosses... (more)

Northbound garbage train running along Puget Sound at the little cove just south of the Pierce County ferry terminal.

Southbound Amtrak Cascades Train 507, headed by the Seahawks-wrapped NPCU rounds the curve at Gordons Point along Puget Sound. While freight traffic will still use the picturesque water level rou... (more)

Southbound Talgo train about to rattle the planks on Bridge 14 at Chambers Bay along Puget Sound. While freight traffic will still use the picturesque water level route from Nisqually to Tacoma t... (more)

The all geep-powered Eugene Hauler pulling through Veneta on its trek to Eugene with 62 lumber loads on the drawbar. The 3876 and 3877 are former high-nosed E & N motors and were chopped in PSAP'... (more)

The American turn runs light for a few blocks down 4th Street on its return to Eugene after earlier working the Georgia Pacific paper plant at Halsey, Oregon.

Greeting the Coast Starlight which was running along a fast track tangent to 99E in the Willamette Valley.

After assembling its train at the Seneca mill the Coos Bay Rail Link 3877 (ex E&N 3877, ex PSAP 3877) prepares to depart with it on a haul to Eugene, Oregon.

Train 505, a weekend scheduled Portland to Eugene conveyance, cruises past a field between Jefferson and Millersburg, Oregon at about ten in the morning with the under-acclaimed "Mater" ... (more)

At Grotto, curving and climbing up the Skykomish River Drainage toward Stevens Pass on a bright winter morning.

Pulling stacks up the grade at The Slot on the east side of the Cascades.

With the peaks of the Cascade Crest making a pretty morning shot an eastbound stack train pulls up out of the "Merritt Sag" near Dardenelles Road crossing after having come down the moun... (more)

An eastbound empty oil train coasts downhill through "The Slot", crossing Nason Creek in a wintry mountain scene in the Cascades.

Head end of the westbound SLPCTAC122E, just moving through the 674' long Gaynor tunnel. 2½ miles uphill from here is the East Portal of the 8 mile long Cascade Tunnel. RWS and I snowshoed into ... (more)