Sitting beside the diesel shops in Burlington Northern’s Interbay Yard is BN E8A 9947. As should be evident from its silver and stainless steel appearance, this locomotive is a former Chicago B... (more)

A rare Bi- centennial Baldwin AS616 Rayonier Number 76 rest outside the companies shop an a dreary day in the Fall of 1977. Photo taken with permission

A Cascade & Columbia River Railroad Wenatchee Turn has arrived in Wenatchee. The crew will make quick work dropping outbound cars and grabbing their inbounds before heading back to home rails. T... (more)

WPY 97 leads a train full of cruise ship passengers back to Skagway from an excursion on the amazing White Pass & Yukon Route. It's about to stop to collect those that went on the Glacier hike.

A Willamette Valley Railway train departs Mount Angel on Presidents Day 1997.

On September 27, 2016, Portland & Western EMD GP39-2 No. 2307 leads the American turn northbound over a low ballasted deck wood trestle in the lowlands of the Willamette River at it heads to Harri... (more)

Portland & Western’s American turn crosses 5th Avenue at Junction City, Oregon, while street running on Holly Street, on September 27, 2016. The local is operating on the OE District and is head... (more)

A Willamette Valley Railway train is nearing Woodburn on a warm summer afternoon.

Wearing the famous SP black widow livery, PNWR 1801 moves past PNWR 2303 to switch lumber cars on during for the night shift. PNWR 1801 is expected to be dropped from the roster, along with the ot... (more)

One damp evening in February 1975 a colorful group of F units gathered at the turntable at BN's Seattle Interbay roundhouse. Former GN F45s, BN 6006 and 6000 mate up, flanked by Amtrak SDP40F (ear... (more)

After grabbing a shot of this train under cloudy skies at Portage, I like the train headed north for Anchorage. As I got near Girdwood I could see that it was likely the sun would dip below the cl... (more)

I was a newcomer to Seattle in summer 1974, and a GN fan. What a pleasant surprise it was to come across GN 98, an SW8 built a few weeks after I was born, in June 1951, still wearing its GN number... (more)

Geep Renaissance: The Alaska Railroad powered a rail train with 5 Geeps. Seen here at Brookman with 3 GP40-2s and 2 GP38-2s in 3 separate paint schemes. To make things even better the rear of the ... (more)

Under threatening skies, UP 4835 (SD70M) brings a new Amtrak Cascades / Washington State Department of Transportation #1408 Siemens SC-44 'Charger' unit down the Moffat Tunnel sub heading for Denv... (more)

Yakima Valley Transportation's "A" Car, a 1909 porduct, performs some street running, returning from a local set out of some work equipment in downtown Yakima, WA. Clearly, movement of ... (more)