TR 1525 has joined it's stable mate in crossing the street from the now defunct Progress Rail Tacoma. The last product to leave that Progress Rail Facility (formerly CEECO), it will soon be put t... (more)

With it's namesake mountains behind the camera, Cascades 505 crosses Bridge 14 at a very low tide, with Mt Rainier out of sight of the train's passengers, but in plane (err drone) view from this v... (more)

Steam powered rotary snowplow OY is pushing through some of the larger drifts on it's way to the Colorado/New Mexico border, where the days work will end. Hardly a soul around to see this extrav... (more)

St Maries RR on the way home from Plummer, crossing Lake Benewah on the former Milwaukee Road line, with former Milwaukee Road locomotives.

Tacoma Rail's newest locomotive in the latest paint scheme has been delivered by Progress Rail. The unit was given a little bit of a workout, dragging the TR 2200 around the yard a bit, and was ... (more)

Tacoma Rail's Hill Job (103) is on it's way home from Fredrickson and a portion of the former Milwaukee Road mainline. To do so, they must cross the BNSF and UP tracks and the Puyallup river over... (more)

This train is just starting to pickup speed after making a crew change a half mile back at CP Nisqually. The last crew pulled the train out Joint Base Lewis-McChord and brought it down to the Lak... (more)

A Seattle bound grain train rolls through a golden sunset at Steilacoom, WA

Tacoma Rail's Hill Job is headed back home, crossing the Sounder Trestle (former location of Milwaukee S Curve trestle). This time in the company of two Sounder trains (one dead in tow).

So much good stuff in this shot, where to begin? I’ll start with the commuter train. Well two actually. SDRX 923 is on the point of Sounder 1517 (maybe 1515), while midway back is train 1511, w... (more)

Tacoma Rail's Hill job is on it's way to Fredrickson. This trip the crew has 14,600 horsepower to lug the 15 cars up the 3.65% grade that awaits them once they leave Sound Transits Lakewood Sub.... (more)

The two Talgo series 6 trainsets owned by Washington State, are headed for scrap in LA. WSDOT retired all of the Series 6 trainsets and they were implicated by the NTSB in the severity of the 12/... (more)

One of two new (rebuilt) MP15AC's for Tacoma Rail, in a brand new paint scheme. Also one of the last two locomotives to be produced by Progress Rail Tacoma, as they are shutting down this facilit... (more)

The second in a series of 6 (so I've been told) mother/slug rebuilds in a Heritage paint scheme for CN.

The Port of Olympia was the departure point for two PT KAI / Indonesian National Railways narrow gauge locomotives on 10/23/2020. CC2051326 & CC2051315 arrived damaged at Progress Rail in Tacoma,... (more)