Empty coal train heading back to the mine on a winter day in the Washington Cascades.

Amtrak Train #7, the Eastbound Empire Builder, stopped in the middle of East Scenic due to mechanical and computer problems.

With the Empire Builder running over 5 hours late. The Empire Builder was halted at East Scenic for what appears to be a low water pressure system. It was later learned that it was a simple comput... (more)

BNSF 7716 East stopped at East Scenic Siding near Stevens Pass due to what I learned was Mechanical Problems.

Snow as high as an elephant's ear, or something like that! The most snow in more than 30 years and the passengers of the westbound Empire Builder are getting a close up view. The excavator is on... (more)

The tracks are down there somewhere. An almost unrecognizable West Portal of the Cascade Tunnel as BNSF goes into full-blown snow removal mode in early 2008 after an insane series of storms... (more)

I always wondered what this spot looked like after a big snow storm, but the forest service road isn't plowed in the winter and this year there was a good 8 foot wall of snow at the entrance. A pa... (more)

It's 1988 and the Burlington Northern is doing some major work on its premier line though Washington. Flash forward to 2008. The BNSF Railway is doing some major work on one of its many lines thou... (more)

The Westbound Z train is the last to pass over a failed insulated joint that brought down CTC signaling between Skykomish and Scenic for several hours.

Snow continues to fall as Monty, the BNSF dispatcher, informs the crew of this heavy eastbound that they will be waiting in the siding at Scenic to allow Amtrak #8 to "Run Around." About an hour l... (more)

Snow falls as a heavy eastbound manifest pulls up to the siding at Scenic Washington to find 9 rail fans waiting. In a rare event the conductor hops off his train and for the next 2 hours the rai... (more)

An Athearn model makes an appearance on Stevens Pass.

The last thing you snowball sees. The glow above the mountains is from night ski operations at Stevens Pass and not the beautiful full moon from this weekend.

Conductor Steve Flores climbs back aboard his train after rolling a Loram undercutter by at Scenic. The undercutter operator has his work cut out for them as the unit is not equipped with dynamic ... (more)

BNSF 3160 backs up at East Scenic to pick up the unit gravel train. The unit gravel is to help with track work.