UP 960 heads up a Directors' Special through Steilacoom along Puget Sound on a blustery spring day in 1979. The train is headed from Seattle to Portland and points east and is running on BN tracka... (more)

A UP intermodal and vehicle train heads south from Tacoma through Steilacoom on a sunny summer morning as beach goers enjoy a long July 4 weekend in 2004. Two versions of EMD SD70Ms head up this t... (more)

Former SP&S C424, BN 4240 leads a C425 and some EMDs around the curve at Steilacoom, WA on a Portland bound freight. This trackage was used by BN, UP and Amtrak at the time and occasionally hosted... (more)

A day of work on an island (Anderson), in the Puget Sound and a few minutes of fun, netted this shot of a Cascades train just south of Solo Point, with a reclusive Mt. Rainier in the background.

I like the four elements which come together in this image: a blue sky, the moon, a reflection in the lagoon and the mixed road consist.

Northbound at Gordon's Point along Puget Sound, engine 167 pulling the "Mater" trainset. Lucky deal to know someone who owns a motorboat :).

Southbound, along Puget Sound Between Steilacoom and Solo Point, Washington. Lucky deal to know someone who owns a motorboat :).

Southbound, crossing Bridge 14. The shot was taken from a motorboat in Puget Sound, courtesy of the Skyllingstad Brothers :).

BNSF 8242 leads a manifest consisting mostly of Canadian forest products south along the shore of Puget Sound at Steilcoom, just south of Tacoma, WA. This line sees plenty of traffic from BNSF, UP... (more)

AMTK 509, pushes Cascades 501 along the Sound, and over historic Bridge 14 at Chambers Creek. There's still a little snow on Cascades and a couple pairs of Osprey are busy tending their nest atop... (more)

Cascades 516, running about a half hour late, rolls along the south Puget Sound and Steilacoom, with a nice sunset and a crescent moonset in the background.

DAMN THE TORPEDOS, FULL SPEED AHEAD! Under a typical moisture laden western Washington sky, Burlington Northern Interdivisional Freight from Everett to Longview, WA rolls along Puget Sound. Today... (more)

The Starlight has just about made up all of it's lost time, now running only 5 minutes late and just in time for a great sunset along the Puget Sound.

A northbound UP freight rolls along Puget Sound at Steilacoom, Wash. nearing Tacoma, with a final destination of Seattle. The power shows three variations of graphics on the basic UP scheme of the... (more)

The Roy Turn recently left the Lakeview sub (NP Prairie Line) and is on it's way back around Pt Defiance to the Tacoma BNSF Yard.