Northern Pacific #7012A, now owned by the Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad, joined Polson Logging Co. #70 on an excursion to Tacoma for the opening of the LeMay Auto Museum. Here the locomotive is seen... (more)

Snoqualmie Tunnel in the Cascade Mountains of Washington was completed in 1914. It served the Milwaukee Road for 66 years hosting everything from the Olympian Hiawatha to the "Dead Freights" of th... (more)

Columbia & Cowlitz's daily landfill train, led by SW-1500 #308, drifts downhill through Ostrander. Two months latter the Weyerhaeuser switchers, some of which had been on the property since the ea... (more)

Northern Pacific #7012A leads a sold out Christmas train through Park Junction on the Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad.

In the late 1800s gold and silver were discovered in the Bradshaw Mountains of central Arizona. As was common at the time, the success of the mines were limited by the lack of transportation into ... (more)

Union Pacific #844 leads the Boise Turn Special past the Cutler Dam and out of the Bear River Gorge on its return trip to Cheyenne.

NP #7012A leads the second excursion of the day down the Tacoma Hill. The Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad brought #7012 and Polson #70 to Tacoma to celebrate the grand opening of the LeMay Auto Muse... (more)

Four locomotive whistle blow. From left to right: Rayonier #2, Kinzua Pine Mill & Lumber #102, Polson #70, and Hillcrest #10 partake in a simultaneous whistle blow on the Mt. Rainier Sceni... (more)

The Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad, one of only seven in North America capable of steaming up four locomotives at once, put on a great show coupling all four together for runbys. Here the locomotiv... (more)

Sumpter Valley Railway #19 leads the first Christmas Train of the year into the Sumpter depot as a light snow falls.

Southern Pacific #4449 nears the summit of Stampede Pass on its way back to Tacoma.

At over thirty miles from the nearest town, Hambone is a quiet place. This area first saw rails in 1920 when the McCloud River Lumber Co. began logging here. The McCloud River Railroad took over t... (more)

All is quiet on the McCloud. With the railroad's only operational locomotive left derailed on the line for several weeks and much of the railroad's equipment scrapped, or marked to be scr... (more)

Polson Logging Co. #70 takes another trainload of passengers around the balloon track in Mineral on the Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad. The track in the foreground is the the main track to Morton.

Columbia & Cowlitz #312 kicks up mud as it crosses aptly named Industrial Way in Longview.