Jan 26 | Galer Street – Jan. 16, 2003 The Seattle to Everett part of the Scenic Sub sees very little coverage on my Blogs and that’s probably because Stevens Pass has the mountains and a looooong tunnel. While not as scenic as the line north of Balmer Yard/Interbay this is part ... |
Jul 9 | Gold Bar to Winton June 21, 2022 I finally got my first trip in to the Scenic Sub on Tuesday 6-21-22. It was a sunny morning so the weather looked perfect for a day trip. I left the house in Renton and made my way out to Monroe and started east on US-2 towards Gold Bar. Out of... |
Jun 26 | Interbay – June 22, 2021 On Tuesday 6-22-21 I made my way up to Interbay in the afternoon planning to photograph Amtrak #8 the Empire Builder. It had been reported that the train would have a couple of private cars, one of them a former Northern Pacific dome which I want... |
Jan 29 | Snowy day January 28, 2006 On this date in 2006 I went to Stevens Pass. I only saw and photographed two trains 1-28-06 but that would be better than none! First was the eastbound Z-SSECHC just coming off the Foss River bridge with 4480/NS 2620/998 C44-9W/SD70M/C44-9W) at... |
Nov 22 | November 22: Ten and forty nine years ago Wishing everyone on this Thursday 11-22-18 a Happy Thanksgiving Day! Ten years ago to the day on Saturday 11-22-08 I made a trip up towards Stevens Pass to Scenic and back. I wrote about this trip back in November 2008 which also highlighted a Sk... |
Nov 7 | Skykomish – in search of Halloween On the Saturday before Halloween 10-27-18 I drove up to Stevens Pass in search of a little Halloween spirit. It was to be a pleasant day weather wise so I was past Monroe around 0900 and hoping to catch up to an eastbound somewhere. Between Sult... |
Mar 15 | Skykomish, WA snow 3-6-17 I have finally made a return to the Scenic Sub. Didn’t go at all last year and went just once in 2015. For 2017 I am planning multiple trips to the Scenic Sub, at least once in each season, Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall. Got the winter ... |