Amtrak F40 #250, now operating as a non-powered control unit numbered 90250, leads an Amtrak Cascades train equipped with Horizon cars through the tunnel at Ostrander, WA. The Horizon cars have si... (more)

Amtrak F40 #251, now operating as a non-powered control unit numbered 90251, leads an Amtrak Cascades train equipped with Horizon cars through Woodland, WA. The Horizon cars have since been pulled... (more)

Amtrak F40 #230, now operating as a non-powered control unit numbered 90230, leads an Amtrak Cascades train equipped with Horizon cars through the Rivendell community north of Ostrander, WA. The H... (more)

Amtrak train 11, the Coast Starlight, will be departing Seattle's King Street Station at 11:20 am, beginning its southbound 1,364-mile run to Los Angeles CA. Two consecutively numbers SDP4... (more)

Last Mile. Cascades 517 passes through the North Portal limits on its way to King Street Station.

Amtrak Charger ALC-42 316 on a late westbound Portland Section of the Empire Builder.

The Seattle section of Amtrak's eastbound Empire Builder is less than 20 minutes out of King Street Station as it runs through an S-Curve along the shores of Puget Sound at Carkeek Park Beach on a... (more)

After a quick station stop at Edmonds, WA, 516's train continues its trip north to Vancouver, BC.

Amtrak's Empire Builder slows for a station stop at Edmonds, WA.

VANCOUVER WA May 2 2008 — Amtrak F59PHI 468 leads a Cascades train to a stop at the Amtrak station. EMD built the unit (s/n 996722-19) in October 1998 for Amtrak Cascades service in the Pacific... (more)

The Coast Starlight arrives from the coach yard

Empire Builder Eastbound Empire builder crosses Nason Creek while sliding down Steven's Pass in typical Cascade Mountain weather. This location has been popular with railroad buffs for ye... (more)

The Empire Builder snakes its way through downtown Seattle

Running seven hours behind schedule, the Empire Builder rolls westward through the Columbia River Gorge. Melonas siding was built in 2017. It is named to honor a family that has produced three gen... (more)

Roughly 50 miles from the end of the line in Portland, the Empire Builder races west through the Columbia River Gorge.