With two sections of the Empire Builder, the Coast Starlight, Seattle, the Cascade Mountains, Columbia Valley and Puget Sound, Washington state offers rail buffs plenty of variety and beauty.
Amtrak F40 #250, now operating as a non-powered control unit numbered 90250, leads an Amtrak Cascades train equipped with Horizon cars through the tunnel at Ostrander, WA. The Horizon cars have si... (more)
Amtrak F40 #251, now operating as a non-powered control unit numbered 90251, leads an Amtrak Cascades train equipped with Horizon cars through Woodland, WA. The Horizon cars have since been pulled... (more)
Amtrak F40 #230, now operating as a non-powered control unit numbered 90230, leads an Amtrak Cascades train equipped with Horizon cars through the Rivendell community north of Ostrander, WA. The H... (more)
Amtrak train 11, the Coast Starlight, will be departing Seattle's King Street Station at 11:20 am, beginning its southbound 1,364-mile run to Los Angeles CA. Two consecutively numbers SDP4... (more)
The Seattle section of Amtrak's eastbound Empire Builder is less than 20 minutes out of King Street Station as it runs through an S-Curve along the shores of Puget Sound at Carkeek Park Beach on a... (more)
VANCOUVER WA May 2 2008 — Amtrak F59PHI 468 leads a Cascades train to a stop at the Amtrak station. EMD built the unit (s/n 996722-19) in October 1998 for Amtrak Cascades service in the Pacific... (more)
Empire Builder Eastbound Empire builder crosses Nason Creek while sliding down Steven's Pass in typical Cascade Mountain weather. This location has been popular with railroad buffs for ye... (more)