The sun made an appearance for this South Seattle to Chicago Z9. The climb out of the Columbia River gorge will end at Quincy, WA. The train had two DP units on the rear so it was making pretty go... (more)

A South Seattle to Chicago Z9 begins the climb out of the Columbia River gorge at Trinidad, WA. The train is 2X2 and will have no problem on the 1% grade that crests at Quincy, WA. Ahead is the Tr... (more)

A Hauser Yard, ID to Portland, Or vehicle train dashes through the snow on BNSF's Scenic Sub. The two fuselage cars on the head end are destined for Boeing's Renton, Wa plant.

The engineer of the the Super Chief checks his orders as he get ready to highball. Photo taken by my Grandfather, JC Weirich.

A baretable train descends the 2.2% grade of BNSF's track 2 as the sun sets. This is near hill 582.

3 SP SD45Rs are coming off the now defunct ex NP waterfront line after delivering their train to Stacy yard. The track nearest the photographer is the Seattle waterfront streetcar line. It ran unt... (more)

A BN officer's special descends the West side of BN's Stevens Pass line through the Cascade Mountains on a typical Pacific Northwest April cloudy day. The weather would turn to rain before the spe... (more)

3 freshly rebuilt SD45Rs are the power for today's LA to Seattle SP runthrough train. The BN crew took over this train at Brooklyn yard in Portland OR. SP power sure looked good when it was clean.... (more)

Some stray fireworks set a trestle on fire on BNSF's Bellingham sub. After some emergency repairs, the line has reopened. The first train through is the Everett to Intalco local led by two ex ATSF... (more)

After the recession of 1980, it was nice to see Burlington Northern get new power. Another added bonus was a new paint scheme! The tiger striped scheme didn't last long since it didnt' show up too... (more)

A BNSF empty coal train waits in the siding at Winton, WA for a Westbound stack train. This is an export coal train that operates between Spring Creek mine MT to Roberts Bank, BC. Export coal tra... (more)

One of the Milwaukee's Baldwin Westinghouse EP3 Class motors leads the Columbian at Butte, MT. THe units were built in 1919 and were retired shortly after the Korean war.

Deep in the Cascade mountains on BNSF's Scenic sub, 4 BNSF GEs are putting out lots of smoke as they lift another trainload of import containers up the 2.2% grade. The locomotives will soon have t... (more)

A working roster shot of one of the new ES44C4s. the cylinders in the middle of the truck is what GE calls "Dynamic Weight Management." The center axle doesn't have a traction motor. These cylinde... (more)

Two of BNSF's new ES44C4 locos along with GECX test car #90 head up a 6000 plus ton stack train about to ascend Stevens Pass. The locos onl have 4 traction motors as the center axle on each truck ... (more)