While the new locomotive bugs are being shaken out of TR 1525, the 1526 teemed up with it's older stablemate 1522 to drag a long cut of cars to the BNSF Tacoma yard. On the way back home, the tw... (more)

PNWR 2307 leads the Toledo Hauler at Summit, Oregon

A City of Prineville freight train slowly proceeds westbound on a long tangent with a pretty good vertical curve, approaching Prineville Junction, Oregon, on a sunny September 28, 2016.

Back home in Skagway. After a full day of plowing between White Pass and Canadian Shed, White Pass Rotary #1 and her consort, Locomotive #73 sit on one of the shop tracks at the Skagway Sho... (more)

Ready for battle! With the fuel and water tanks fully topped and all crew positions fully manned, the White Pass Rotary Fleet sits at Glacier Siding (MP 14.1) awaiting the order to move fro... (more)

Servicing Stop - Glacier Siding. With roughly 6 miles to go on the journey from Skagway to White Pass, the WPY Rotary Fleet comes to the attention of a servicing crew that has been pre-posi... (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)

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)

The caboose of a southbound Chehalis and Western train crosses an old Milwaukee Road railroad bridge in Tacoma, Washington.

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,... (more)

An old Amtrak F40, now NPCU leads a southbound Amtrak Cascades train towards Washington, as it is silhouetted by the setting sun.

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)

PNWR 1501 sitting tied down in albany.

In the dead line in Stockton.