Happy 100th birthday, Union Station! Opened in May, 1911 by Union Pacific predecessor Oregon-Washington Railway & Navigation Company and joined soon thereafter by the Chicago, Milwaukee, S... (more)

What a line up! On a crisp, clear winter afternoon, A variety of Sounders, Amtrak's Empire Builder, a special ORCA locomotive, and an old Winnebago! All that is missing from the northwest's... (more)

Slicing through the scissors crossover at Tukwila International Boulevard Station, a southbound train approaches what was then Central Link's terminal station on a crisp late-autumn afternoon. Th... (more)

The headlights of a southbound Sound Transit Link Light Rail train bring to life a variety of details in Beacon Hill Tunnel, from the curvature of the track to the sinuous path of the overhead con... (more)

SOMEONE TALKED; and I was All-Ears hearing about this special move planned well after dark. Finding a driver, a spot bright enough between Mukilteo and Seattle and trying to hold the camer... (more)

With cotton candy clouds above, Sounder trains are getting ready for the evening commute on a warm late summer afternoon.

Quietly humming down in the rail yards, a northbound trainset keeps warm in the snowy Seattle afternoon. The train is parked on what used to be the old BNSF mains, which are now used for MOW and S... (more)

With the rest of the city crippled by the snow, the Link runs on time and with no delays.

Weird Railfans! Pants pulled up high and deep into the chilly Puget Sound, Steve De Vight gets his shot of the So... (more)

Santa Special. Seeing me on the platform snapping some photos, Santa, with a twinkle in his eye, changes the readerboard from the usual dull "Downtown/Westlake" to "Special". What is this s... (more)

The old ways are the best ways. With opening a little more than a month away, Sound Transit shuts down the new line for a day of track repairs and leveling. The vehicles traveling down this... (more)

Today Sound Transit celebrates the 10th anniversary of commuter rail in the greater Seattle area. Starting in 2000, with a few daily trains between Seattle and Tacoma, the service has expanded to ... (more)

This isn't your high school chemistry lab. A RailWorks crew has just dramatically ignited a thermite weld as construction activities for Sound Transit's Railroad: Sound Transit
Locomotive: Thermite weld
Location: Lakewood, Washington, USA
Locomotive #: Unknown
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: September 18, 2010