Pasco, WA to Birmingham AL train 124 cruises across the Lake Pend Oreille bridge.
Western Washington has been experiencing an "Artic" blast of winter with temperatures in the teens. This is the second snow storm we have had this year. AMTK train 513 cruises by some trees covere... (more)
2 AMTK P42DCs lead the Portland section of the Empire Builder through the Columbia Rive Gorge. That's 11245 foot Mt Hood in the background. The Empire Builder is almost right on time and the sche... (more)
Results of a run in with a trailer load of frozen pizzas. The train was whstling but the truck driver drove right in front of the train. Luckily, only minor injuries occured. This is on BNSF's Bel... (more)
Lead unit of a Chicago, IL to Tacoma, Wa stack train is stuck in the mud. The crew was lucky that they didn't land in Puget Sound.
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.
3 737 fusealges cross Interstate 90 on it's way to the Boeing Renton plant. This scene will soon be history if King county excecutive Ron Sims has his way. He wants to turn this rail line into a ... (more)
A five pack gone bad. This doublestack car split the switch and went every which way. The maintenance crew has their work cut out for them and the steady rain doesn't make the job any more pleasan... (more)
UP 6904 leads the deadline at Yermo. 25 of her bretheren were reseurrected for one last go round hauling trains before they were all shut down permanently with the exception of the 6936.
A Thornton Yard (Canada) to Everett, WA manifest cruises along Puget Sound on a sunny but cold day.
Crew change at Three Forks MT.
The engineer of the the Super Chief checks his orders as he get ready to highball. Photo taken by my Grandfather, JC Weirich.
An all Yellow bonnet BNSF lashup takes a Pasco bound manifest trough the Columbia River Gorge. The lashup was the BNSF 8718, 8719, 8721, 7504 and 2474.
ATSF 144 was a trailing unit on a stack train that ran away and rear ended a UP coal train on 12-14-94.
Brand new ES44DC is languishing at Delta Yard after bringing a train into the USA
