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)

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.

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)

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)

The sodium vapor lights of the Muni Yard mix with smoke from California, Oregon and Washington wildfires to lend an eerie feel to this scene. A Tacoma Rail job is shoving a cut of military cars pa... (more)

On an evening of smoke filled skies a Tacoma Rail job is delivering a cut of military cars to the North Intermodal Yard for loading on yet to arrive RO-RO ship. An interesting load of the new rob... (more)

Here is the PASTAC just getting back to the remains of it's train, after the crew made a setout in the Tacoma Yard. It wasn't clear to me, why only part of the train was setout, as the symbol ind... (more)

Oil, Intermodal and vehicles are the current mainstay of Tacoma Rail. Here with a wonderful sunset on Mt Rainier, a Tacoma Rail job using an SD40 and MP15AC are switching one of the vehicle loadi... (more)

Still known as the "Log Yard", this fairly small yard adjunct to the BNSF Tacoma Yard, now mainly handles auto racks. At the moment of this shot, two tracks were free. Just enough for t... (more)

Pacific Transportation Services was a Tacoma, WA, locomotive dealer that owned this Fairbanks-Morse H10-44, parked along the Tacoma waterfront back in 1982. PTS 122 was built for the log-hauling C... (more)

On a short layover I got some time to head back to the Flats for a visit to favorite old ramshackle operation. And sure enough a grizzled old veteran was idling aware adorned with battle scars, b... (more)

Tacoma Rail's twice weekly job 103 works the South Tacoma industries under the occasionally watchful eye of Mt Rainier on a beautiful winter day. The Feed Mill isn't quite finished but they ne... (more)

This may be the last or second to last, of the 5 SD70ACe's for QNS&L. Tacoma Rail facilitated it's escape from Progress Rail, and then dropped it of at BNSF's door step on a transfer job. Shou... (more)