This old Davenport 0-4-0 sits on display in front of the Alaska Railroad Anchorage Depot.

The Princess Cruises train approaches the station in Girdwood for a station stop before continuing down to Seward.

An Alaska Railroad Budd RDC car sits at its final resting place for now at Whistle Hill in Soldotna Alaska after being retired by the Alaska Railroad years ago.

VANCOUVER WA April 24 2013 — BNSF SD9 1550 shows off its new cab and chopped nose. EMD built the unit (b/n 19340) in February 1954 for Great Northern Railway as GN 573. An April 13, 2022, Trains... (more)

Vintage Excursion EMD veteran awaiting a Saturday excursion up towards Mt. Hood.

The Crew 8 local finishes up its work for the day and shoves back into the Renton Minerals spur to stage its train for the evening.

Northern Pacific train number 407 is seen departing Portland Oregon on July 29th 1940. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Tying up
The conductor does some last minute paperwork and the engineer shuts down the power as Watco’s Palouse River & Coulee City freight ties up at Mockonema, Washington, on Septem... (more)

The Harbor Turn runs through downtown Hillsboro on a atypical daylight run. The week long ice storm caused many delays, resulting in this move as the Portland metro had an inch plus of solid ice, ... (more)

PNWR 3570 at West Colton.

The SC44s used to pull the Amtrak Cascades service are owned by Washington State DOT. In previous years this train used the cooler looking 'batmobile' Talgo passenger cars, but it still sports a ... (more)

Running around 90 minutes off schedule, the Portland section of the Empire Builder rolls through the Columbia River Gorge. The train is about 53 miles into its journey to Spokane, where it will be... (more)

After dropping off some flatcars at Scenic, the boing local returns light back to Everett crossing over the raging Sunset Falls.

With matching scarlet & gray power, the Kenton Local ducks under Interstate 5 on its way back to Barnes.

As a C&NW employee located in the Seattle area if was always heart warming to see C&NW locos come to town, mostly on Union Pacific. This trio led by Fast Forty 8037 featured CNW 6802, their second... (more)