City Of Destiny. On the night of August 30, 2008, Sounder SDRX 902 (F59PHI) was sitting in the Tacoma, Washington station awaiting the morning call to service. This unit was temporarily wra... (more)
Sounder 902 in downtown Seattle in the travel by ORCA scheme.
Today Sound Transit celebrates the 10th anniversary of commuter rail in the greater Seattle area. Starting in 2000, with a few daily trains between Seattle and Tacoma, the service has expanded to ... (more)
This Tacoma bound Sounder, wearing the special Tacoma livery passes the Allied Waste facility in South Seattle.
Sound transit's most distinctive paint scheme, pictured here with two other flavors of F59PHI's, never made it on the road during my visit. Still, I was able to shoot it in the barn with the permi... (more)
The "Tacoma, City of Destiny" unit pushes Sound Transit train 1704 out of the new Mukilteo stop and on toward the end of the run in Everett. For a view of how this scene appeared just two years a... (more)
Families play on the beach while the Sounder glides along the shore.
The first Southbound for the evening commute. The new schedule, including an additional evening train, features #902 in it's special paint scheme honoring the city of Tacoma - City of Destiny. ... (more)
The first Sounder of the evening, sporting the new Tacoma "City of Destiny" paint scheme... not that anything good can ever come out of Tacoma!
The train is gone and life returns to normal for kids playing on the beach. For the first time in many a month, the Sounder is riding the outside rail!
Sound Transit commuter trains wait for the morning rush.
Evening Sounder heading for Tacoma. Adorned with the colors of it's surroundings, under majestic Mt Rainier.
Having just arrived to Tacoma, passengers detrain and the consist goes to a staging yard.
