The Gold Bar turn prepositioning ballast cars for further flooding in the Skykomish Valley.
The Eastside Freight Railroad is seen pulling from Snohomish Junction with 6 loaded cars. Traffic is slowly starting to pick up again for the little shortline and hopefully this influx of cars wil... (more)
WRIX 3043 to the rescue!!! After the Eastside Freight Railroad's SW1200 had been down for almost two months, this EMD GP20u finally came to the rescue from Western Rail in Spokane, WA. They were b... (more)
Heading west along the Snohomish River Valley just a few miles from its home terminal of Everett, the Kirkland Turn can finally let em' rip on the high iron having previously spent the majority of... (more)
Last week my fiancée and I hired fellow RP contributor Ross Fotheringham to take some family engagement photos in a fie... (more)
EFRX 109 and it's train finish up their brake check before heading back up the hill toward Maltby and Woodinville, WA. This was the only time the sun came out all day.
EFRX 109 picks up five loads at Snohomish Jct.
Engineer Brock inspects his train before heading back up the hill to Maltby where he will drop off the loads.
I was able to chase the BNSF Intermodel all the way to Snohomish as the sun sets.
The Boeing switch is being overtaken by the hot Chicago to Seattle Z train on BNSF's Scenic sub.
A Westbound freight crosses the Snohomish/Pilchuk bridge.
UP and CSX pool power lead a BNSF train Eastbound.
BNSF 5238 East doing about 50mph through Snohomish.
Snohomish is a good place to watch trains going 50 mph.