Crew change... Second shift crews gather to inspect and prepare their locomotive power before beginning their duties at Balmer Yard in Seattle on a partly sunny May afternoon.
As evening approaches, Interbay yard is crammed full of motive power at its engine facility, including a couple of Amtrak P42s marked for service which are in dire need of wheel replacement.
A Herzog work train pauses while a backhoe repositions itself on top of the gondolas during a trenching project for new fiber optic cable installation at Howarth Park in Everett, WA. This effort i... (more)
BNSF #2080 leads the "Boeing Local" as it shoves a line of oversized containers toward the Port Of Everett shipping docks in Mukilteo, WA on a sunny spring morning.
Westbound BNSF #4492 leads a hot-shot intermodal train along Everett's shoreline enroute to Seattle on a chilly March afternoon.
Westbound BNSF #4868 leads a Z-train across Nason Creek as it makes its way uphill to the summit on a warm July morning.
Southbound BNSF #5663 skirts the Puget Sound shoreline as it drags a train of empty coal porters from Canada on a long journey back to the Powder River Basin in Wyoming via the Fallbridge Sub.
UP SD9043MAC #8004 thunders eastward past a granary at Biggs, OR with a general manifest freight train.