A vehicle train with a Grinstein MAC leader makes a snake-like climb near Trinidad on the 1% grade from Albus (Columbia River) to Quincy.

Log cars headed for the storage line. Today was billed as "The Last Run to Mill 5" for Simpson Railroad. It was the last time anyone would see a log train run the mainline of this soon... (more)

The mail must get through! View from the cab of Simpson's #1200, stopped while waiting for the 900 to clear the line. The 900 has brought a log loader up the hill on a flat and is backing up to ... (more)

The railroad crosses over a bend in the Skykomish River at a place just east of Goldbar. Fishermen and foamers know it as "Big Eddy", where the water swirls in a wide spot. The dirt train had tr... (more)

A couple of 50-something year-old SD9's snake through an ess curve south of Warden and down a former NP branch line with potatoes and onions and empty cars to interchange with the BNSF at Connell,... (more)

After ducking under the E 26th Street overpass, MRSR's NP 7012A returns with its passenger consist after a short trip up Tacoma Hill during a weekend event at Freight House Square.

Although the 1202 and her sisters are short-timers on their soon-to-be-defunct railroad she still has work to be performed. Here she is being rolled out of the RoHo for a day of work train duty e... (more)

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

If while you wait for the stacker to unload the log train you get bored, then get busy with clearing debris from the bottom of the bunkers.

The last log train highballs Dayton during a special move to and from the Dry Sort yard with the purpose of retrieving remaining rolling stock which had been stranded since the end of 2013 after t... (more)

A grain train rolls off Providence Hill and through a ruins of the defunct Milwaukee Road, the concrete abutments and pillars of the bridge having been formed over 100 years ago still remain.

Eastbound coasting downhill approaches the west portal of the Gaynor Tunnel along Nason Creek in the Cascade Mountains.

CFNR 106 switches boxcars at "The Pass" for the PSAP, downtown Shelton. The Bridge crosses Goldsborough Creek.

After crossing the Columbia River from Wishram, WA (seen in the distance) a southbound begins the climbs up Deschutes River Canyon. The UP main, US 30 and I-84 are just below.

Running two-plus hours behind schedule the westbound Empire Builder climbs BNSF's Scenic Sub, crossing the 1948 vintage Nason Creek Trestle. The air quality has been degraded by wildfires and is ... (more)