With the headlight from our train illuminating his work, my conductor is sweeping the switch at East Merritt so we can line it, and continue west to Seattle.
Priority train, Bedford Park IL. to Tacoma WA., waits in the clear at Merritt as an eastbound vehicle train comes off the 2.2, and passes with dyno's whining.
On an overcast July 4th, and with a shortage of power, the Interbay roundhouse has scraped together three SD-9s for the Seattle to Everett transfer, 650. The engineer is walking out to get on the ... (more)
Holding at East Berne. After an eastbound stack train passes, we will run east of the east switch and plow west up the main.
Empty coal train heading back to the mine on a winter day in the Washington Cascades.
Waiting for some OCS and permission to line out at the Coach Wye, so we can take our yard transfer up to Interbay and finish our switch sweeping 13hr day.
Eastbound Z takes the siding at Baring to meet a westbound stack train.
Number 9 hustles through Richmond Beach on its way to Seattle. It will set out the two halves of the Boeing 737 fuselage in Seattle, then a transfer crew will take the train the rest of the way t... (more)
Z train heading eastbound through Merritt with four new engines numbered in sequential.