Approaching the station

A Sounder commuter is on its afternoon run from Seattle to Tacoma about to make its first stop at the Tukwila Station near the Southcenter Mall on a beautiful spring day in 2015.

Waiting in the sun...

A Sounder commuter train sits in the afternoon sun  at King Street Station waiting to depart on its run from Seattle to Tacoma on a beautiful spring day in 2015 led by an EMD F59PHI.

On the way home...

A Sound Transit commuter train is departing the Tukwila station on its way to Tacoma on a clear spring day in Seattle.

Next stop the airport...

A Metro Light Rail Train is departing the American Blvd station with its next stop at terminal 2 at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport.

The railroad is gone but the station still stands...

The former Chicago Great Western depot in Elma, Iowa was turned into a museum after the railroad was abandoned by the Chicago North Western Railroad that had taken over the CGW in a merger.

It was a cold winter...

The Cedar River in downtown Waterloo, Iowa during the arctic cold snap this winter.

Awaiting its fate...

A Waterloo Apartment building that has sat abandoned is awaiting its final fate as the bulldozers will soon demolish it.

Creative Re-use

The former train station in Ames, Iowa home of Iowa State University is being turned into a new restaurant.

Is that enough horsepower?

A pair of Iowa Northern MP2000D locomotives have no shortage of horsepower pulling a pair of cars along Canadian National tracks in north Waterloo, Iowa. The locomotives have been in storage for more than 2 years due to their cost of operation but a locomotive shortage forced Iowa Northern to put them back in service.

Waiting for the boys of summer...

The Waterloo Riverfront Stadium home of the Waterloo Bucks baseball teams during its winter downtime.