After a long chilling wait standing in the frozen snow Amtrak's Empire Builder emerges from the trees onto the iconic Sunset Falls Bridge crossing over the mighty Skykomish River. Amtrak P42DC #20... (more)

BN 2220 runs west from Skykomish as a caboose hop opreating as a turn out of Everett, WA. The former CB&Q GP30 running GN style, long hood first on the former GN mainline, is accompanied by a form... (more)

AMTK 264 leads the westbound North Coast Hiawatha which is stopped at Baring, WA siding for an eastbound BN freight with caboose BN 10597 bringing up the rear. The Amtrak head end crew was on the ... (more)

BN U25C 5653 leads an eastbound freight through Baring, WA. The train will pass the westbound North Coast Hiawatha, out of view, here and continue east to Skykomish to add helpers before continuin... (more)

CN 3023 (The J) rounds the S-Curves near Baring WA on its way East with empty Oil Cans.

With Mt. Index in the background, a BNSF South Seattle, WA, to Chicago Cicero, IL Z train follows the banks of the Skykomish River as it climbs upgrade towards the 7.8 mile long Cascade Tunnel on ... (more)

Tier 4 BNSF 3959 rolls an amply powered Z train west along the Skykomish River just east of the east switch for Baring siding where it will meet an eastbound stack train. The stacker has cleared a... (more)

A nice A-B-A Geep set rolls west with a former GN/BN dozer at Baring, WA, headed west toward Everett, WA after picking up the dozer at Skykomish. This color scheme (including the revised version o... (more)

A BNSF local crew from Everett, WA made a run up to Skykomish to fetch a former GN spreader. The short train is shown here with the spreader bringing up the rear at Baring, WA as it heads west tow... (more)

An A-B-A of BNSF Geeps roll west with a Jordan spreader picked up at Skykomish. They will hold the main at Baring while an eastbound empty coal train takes the siding. This is perhaps as nice as B... (more)

The BNSF Gold Bar Turn heads east through the S curves between Baring and Skykomish with two newly rebuilt GP39-2's on the head end.

BN F45 6620 leads an EMD trio of six axle units on an eastbound manifest at the west end of Baring, WA on the 243rd anniversary of George Washington's birthday. The train will add helpers about 8 ... (more)

A BNSF manifest waits out a meet on the former Great Northern Railway at Baring, Washington.

Unable to line the West switch Baring for the intended route, the dispatcher instructed the crew of BN 7027 West to take the switch on hand so the train could continue west. Hopefully this was on... (more)

An eastbound empty coal train throttles up out of the Baring siding on the west side of Stevens Pass. This ended up being a very long trip for the crew seeing they had to stop at every siding to m... (more)