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

The Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel, the only place in the world where buses and trains share an underground transit corridor, is a busy place during rush hour, with commuters crowding the platfor... (more)

Two Sounder trains get ready for departure at King Street Stations in Seattle on a spectacular summer afternoon -- but can you spot the second train?

The engineer of Sounder #1505 throttles up as his train plunges into the darkness of the 106-year-old tunnel under downtown Seattle, appropriately passing a billboard for the Sounders. Dominating... (more)

The Seattle region is far enough north that it seems like the Sounder commuter trains operate on an arctic schedule -- half the year in darkness and half in light. It's nice to see them running i... (more)

A pleasant early evening in the southern suburb of SeaTac. The operator of the train on the right readies for a departure in a matter of minutes. At the southern end of Sound Transits Link Light R... (more)

It's a tad eerie waiting in the underground Beacon Hill station, when no one is around and there's these weird looking sea creatures hanging from ceiling. It's also pretty quiet until a low whoos... (more)

Sound Transit 906, pushing evening commuters into the Mukilteo stop, positively glows against the remnants of an early spring storm, simultaneously enhancing the ski slopes of Stevens Pass in the ... (more)

Sometimes, everything just comes together. A beautiful sunset, a jet taking off, and a train. A United puddle jumper, for some reason, lifts off towards the end of the runways at SeaTac Internatio... (more)

The Seattle Sounder occupies a mostly abandoned King Street Station with the Seattle skyline looming in the background during the record-breaking Seattle heatwave of 2009.