Tacoma Rail's Hill Job is returning home from work at Frederickson. The train is just coming off of the Lakewood Sub and crossing over the BNSF and UP Seattle Subs. Off in the distance a UP sta... (more)

Tacoma Rail's Hill job makes a late appearance on Sunday morning, crossing the Sound Transit Tacoma bridge, where once stood the historic Milwaukee S-Curve wooden trestle. The acknowledgment pres... (more)

Tacoma Rails Hill passes by the crossing at Allison and along side the old Allison siding which has been used by Tacoma Eastern, Milwuakee Road, Chehalis Western, and now Tacoma Rail.

Tacoma Rails Hill Job is deep into Tacoma Hill starting the first of many S curves up to the top of the Hill. Todays train has no problems lifting 20 cars up the hill with Tacoma Rails SD70ACe-P4 ... (more)

Tacoma Rail's Hill Job (103) is on it's way home from Fredrickson and a portion of the former Milwaukee Road mainline. To do so, they must cross the BNSF and UP tracks and the Puyallup river over... (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)

Tacoma Rail's Hill job (101) begins it's journey to Frederickson. After shoving in to the UP's Fife yard, the train takes the short northern section of the Mountain Division over the Puyallup Riv... (more)

After backing into the UP Fife Yard, the "Mountain Job" is tied down for Sunday, and will run Monday Instead.

It's 2am, and I've been standing in the rain for 45 minutes all setup waiting for the last freight train to cross the 80 year old Historic Milwuakee S Curve trestle. Even with really good intel, ... (more)