The only westbound of the afternoon, BNSF 9163 leads westbound empties.
BNSF 9163 (SD70ACe) sits in the engine servicing yard, waiting for an assignment that most likely will involve a coal train.
Eastbound empty coal train from Roberts Bank makes its way up Stevens Pass at the Deception Creek bridge.
The ACe digs into the 2.2% climb with its long train of coal empties and curves away from Skykomish and into the Foss River canyon while on the trek up Stevens Pass and over the Cascade Mountains.
Some awfully fancy power for a work train pulls some ballast and equipment up the hill into Spokane after a long summer day on the Lakeside Sub.
BNSF 9163 (SD70ACe) leads a coal train out of the Denver Yard
An empty coal train heads north behind a nearly new BNSF SD70ACe.
