This train is just starting to pickup speed after making a crew change a half mile back at CP Nisqually. The last crew pulled the train out Joint Base Lewis-McChord and brought it down to the Lak... (more)

A Seattle bound grain train rolls through a golden sunset at Steilacoom, WA

Tacoma Rail's Hill Job is headed back home, crossing the Sounder Trestle (former location of Milwaukee S Curve trestle). This time in the company of two Sounder trains (one dead in tow).

So much good stuff in this shot, where to begin? I’ll start with the commuter train. Well two actually. SDRX 923 is on the point of Sounder 1517 (maybe 1515), while midway back is train 1511,... (more)

Tacoma Rail's Hill job is on it's way to Fredrickson. This trip the crew has 14,600 horsepower to lug the 15 cars up the 3.65% grade that awaits them once they leave Sound Transits Lakewood Sub.... (more)

The two Talgo series 6 trainsets owned by Washington State, are headed for scrap in LA. WSDOT retired all of the Series 6 trainsets and they were implicated by the NTSB in the severity of the 12/... (more)

One of two new (rebuilt) MP15AC's for Tacoma Rail, in a brand new paint scheme. Also one of the last two locomotives to be produced by Progress Rail Tacoma, as they are shutting down this facilit... (more)

The second in a series of 6 (so I've been told) mother/slug rebuilds in a Heritage paint scheme for CN.

The Port of Olympia was the departure point for two PT KAI / Indonesian National Railways narrow gauge locomotives on 10/23/2020. CC2051326 & CC2051315 arrived damaged at Progress Rail in Tacoma,... (more)

The Port of Olympia was the departure point for two PT KAI / Indonesian National Railways narrow gauge locomotives on 10/23/2020. CC2051326 & CC2051315 arrived damaged at Progress Rail in Tacoma,... (more)

TEMCO employees are operating two locomotives (EFX 1611 with slug 219s and SW9 185) to unload a grain train. Just arriving is another grain train that will terminate at the facility, while a SB ... (more)

With California wildfire smoke tinted sun for a background, the UP/CP oil train is creeping across the approach to Bridge 14. The dispatcher just "talked by" the crew against a red sign... (more)

With a smoky sunset aligned with Bridge 14, this UP Oil train tiptoes gingerly across the bridge, just in case.... The dispatcher just "talked by" the crew against a red signal, as the bridge is... (more)

Wildfire smoke has returned to the Puget Sound, at the cost of other's misery, we get an interesting sunset. Just in time is this UP oil train from Canada, complete with Heritage unit CP 7012. T... (more)

Coming to a CN Yard near you! I believe this is an new mother/slug set that in an old CN paint scheme. Not sure what the model designations are. The 7600 is lettered as GY-430A and the 600 as ... (more)