Amtrak crew qualification trains continue on the soon-to-return bypass route this weekend. This train consists of an 8 car Coast Starlight set, powered by three GE P42DC locomotives. Two of which ... (more)
New Cab Control Car?? Arbitrary date of photo.
Well, that was unexpected: Driving up I-5 in the wee hours of this morning after the Autumn Leaf Slide Show in Centr... (more)
This isn't your high school chemistry lab. A RailWorks crew has just dramatically ignited a thermite weld as construction activities for Sound Transit's Railroad: Sound TransitLocomotive: Thermite weldLocation: Lakewood, Washington, USALocomotive #: UnknownTrain ID: UnknownPhoto Date: September 18, 2010
What better way to spend a pleasant summer evening in Washington than hotshotting northward on a Talgo to Bellingham? AMTK 452 provides the power.
Tacoma Rail hostles some cars around in Lakewood
Two Boeing hill qualified GP38-2s lead the Thornwood turn through English/Lakewood.
The conductor off the BNSF 705 rolls by the Everett/Sumas WA turn Led by a couple of GP40 rebuilds.
A BNSF AB set leads a long manifest Seattle to Vancouver, BC train North
BN English Hill between Silvana and English.
BN English is the first controlled siding north of Everett. It seems like somebody is always meeting somebody at English.