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Visited Corvallis last may and discovered that PNWR 2005 was once again living in the Corvallis yard. 2014-05-25

The MoW locomotive pulls several well cars, a support/operator cab, and a Komatsu PC228USLC hydraulic excavator that can move along the top of the well cars to perform various MoW functions.

UP 5971 leads a southbound intermodal through the Tacoma waterfront. 2014-05-03

BNSF 9128 leads a southbound intermodal through the BNSF Tacoma yard with help from two CSX units. 2014-05-03

UP 6523 leads a southbound freight train through Tacoma, WA. If I noticed the U.S. District Court building and Chihuly's glass tower was in the background when I snapped this, I wouldn't have cut it off which would have made for a great shot. 2014-05-03

UP 9208 leads a empty intermodal train through Tacoma, Washington. 2014-04-20

But I did get a cool (albeit potato quality) panorama of the maintenance yard from the top floor of the administrative office on Holgate St., Seattle.

For our first anniversary, my girlfriend and I went down to Oregon and on the first day, we rode on the Mount Hood scenic railway (her idea).

An inactive ballast regulator on Ruston Way, Tacoma, WA. 2014/03/11

A BNSF mixed freight heads north through Tacoma, WA. under the Chihuly Bridge of Glass with some mostly empty MoW cars at the end of it. The only two MoW vehicles on the train are shown. 2014/03/01

BNSF mixed freight heads south through Tacoma, WA. 2014/03/01

UP 4265 northbound through Albany, Oregon. 2014/01/20

A cold week in Albany, Oregon. PNWR 2301 heads south to Eugene on the old Oregon Electric Railway. 2013/12/07

2013/12/02

PNWR 1501 waits for a UP train to pass in Albany, Oregon 2013/12/02

LRY 1011 and UP 4709

UP 8060 mixed freight