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  1. BNSF #1600 @ Coast Engine and Equipment Co.

    BNSF #1600 @ Coast Engine and Equipment Co.

    Here BNSF #1600 is sitting with it's long hood removed for some reason.. It's getting worked on for something.. Anyone know what's it in for?? Also, is BNSF still the owner of this GP9??
    • SP&SFan
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    • #1600 burlington ceeco fe gp9 northern rail santa tacoma washington
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Burlington Northern Santa Fe
  2. Switching Under Mount Rainier

    Switching Under Mount Rainier

    A pair of TACOMA RAIL switch engines after building a string of autoracks are backing it onto a storage track at the TACOMA RAIL yard.
    • Joe O
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    • rail tacoma
    • Comments: 12
    • Category: Editors Choice Gallery
  3. BNSF Centralia-Tacoma Turn

    BNSF Centralia-Tacoma Turn

    Here is the engineer coming out of the BNSF #2265 which he could not engine to cooperate with the lead unit. It took him with the ex-SF unit about 20 minutes for it to show up. In the background, you can see the old depot in Bucoda, Washington.. Also, you can see that BNSF is storing empty...
    • SP&SFan
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    • at bnsf bucoda burlington centralia fe northern santa tacoma turn washington
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Western United States
  4. UP in Tacoma

    UP in Tacoma

    UP 8278 leads a mixed manifest northbound along Puget Sound near Tacoma, WA
    • avarua
    • Media item
    • sd90 tacoma up
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Western United States
  5. The Bill Gates special

    The Bill Gates special

    Sitting with 844 at the Tacoma Amtrak station. 4449 gets ready to run to Everett with the governor of WA and Bill Gates and his Microsoft VIPs (only) on board...
    • p51
    • Media item
    • 4449 tacoma
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Mainline Excursions
  6. BNSF Tacoma

    BNSF Tacoma

    BNSF 5015 and NS 9674 lead a grain train northbound along the Tacoma narrows
    • avarua
    • Media item
    • 9-40cw 9-44cw bnsf dash ns tacoma
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Western United States
  7. Portrait

    Portrait

    844 simmering in the Fife (Tacoma) WA yard, coupled to the tender of SP #4449 on their first outing together.
    • p51
    • Media item
    • 4449 844 daylight fife tacoma up
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Mainline Excursions
  8. Centered!

    Centered!

    If you look closely, the center of the star in the middle is actually the trees on the other side, as the axle cores are actually hollow!
    • p51
    • Media item
    • 4449 daylight tacoma wheel
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Mainline Excursions
  9. Tacoma Narrows Bridges

    Tacoma Narrows Bridges

    Cascade 513 sprinting along the Narrows and under the Tacoma Narrows Bridges
    • DelmonteX
    • Media item
    • bridges cascade narrows tacoma talgo
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Amtrak and other US Passenger Trains
  10. Fife-Hinkle at the remains of Dock Street

    Fife-Hinkle at the remains of Dock Street

    M-FIHK is seen here heading southbound near the remains of Dock Street. The new overpass is taking shape at the top of the photo.
    • cnw8717
    • Media item
    • c44acte tacoma up
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Western United States
  11. BNSF Tacoma

    BNSF Tacoma

    BNSF 4823 heads north from Tacoma WA
    • avarua
    • Media item
    • 9-44cw bnsf dash tacoma
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Western United States
  12. Sound Transit

    Sound Transit

    Sound Transit commuter run heads out of Puyallup, WA on a cold, wet March afternoon behind F59PHI #910
    • avarua
    • Media item
    • f59phi puyallup sound tacoma transit
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Transit, Light Rail and Commuter
  13. BNSF Tacoma

    BNSF Tacoma

    BNSF 6813 leads a mixed freight southbound along Puget Sound near Tacoma, WA
    • avarua
    • Media item
    • bnsf sd40-2 tacoma
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Western United States
  14. BNSF

    BNSF

    BNSF 2093 southbound along Puget Sound near Tacoma, WA
    • avarua
    • Media item
    • bnsf gp38-2 tacoma
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Western United States
  15. Cold Day in Tacoma

    Cold Day in Tacoma

    UP 3801 leads a double stack along the waterfront in Tacoma, WA after an early January snowfall.
    • avarua
    • Media item
    • pacific sd70m snow tacoma union up
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Western United States
  16. through the glass

    through the glass

    takin through the glass at tacoma station
    • natfoot
    • Media item
    • tacoma
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Western United States
  17. Tacoma Rail in the Gulch

    Tacoma Rail in the Gulch

    Another old shot from 2004 shows a Tacoma Rail climbing the gulch.
    • cnw8717
    • Media item
    • rail tacoma
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Western United States
  18. Reading 2100

    Reading 2100

    Reading 2100 crossing the old Milwaukee bridge in Tacoma
    • cnw8717
    • Media item
    • 2100 reading tacoma
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Mainline Excursions
  19. Switching Reservation yard, Tacoma

    Switching Reservation yard, Tacoma

    • Nahalle
    • Media item
    • gp15-1 tacoma
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Western United States
  20. UP M-FIHK

    UP M-FIHK

    UP Fife to Hinkle manifest with seven engines at Tacoma.
    • cnw8717
    • Media item
    • tacoma up
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Western United States



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