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Puget Sound or Salish Sea, take your pick. Trains, boats and cranes Mukilteo light house Water, Olympic mountains and beach. That pretty much covers everything. Ballard Locks

9:25- Just announced Everett will not be a smoke break stop today in order to make up time. Seriously? We’re 30 miles from Seattle and this a smoke break stop?

9:16 East of Everett Blueberry fields forever

Oh, yeah! Lookin’ good!

Stupid oil train got in the way of a picture I had planned taking of my son and the steel gang he was working with who were parked on the Baring, WA. house track waiting to go to work.

The Cascades in a nutshell Skykomish railcam on corner of white building.

7:45- Enter Cascade tunnel 8:00- Exit Cascade tunnel Transit time portal to portal by stopwatch exactly 15 minutes! Tunnel 7.79 miles long. Rarely photographed view of the inside of the Cascade tunnel.

6:30- Departed WEN and now following the Wenatchee River up to Stevens Pass and the 7.79 mile long Cascade Tunnel. Apple and cherry country.

Good to know. Thanks.

5:49- Heading down the Trinidad Hill to greet the Columbia River. 6:00- Rock Island dam 6:18 Wenatchee Amshak.

5:15am- Ephrata, WA Woke up at 5am as announcement last night said breakfast will be from 5 to 7. Went to diner at 5:15 only to be told we don’t open until 5:30. Running only one hour late at this point.

4/28/2021 2:45am PDT- I am awakened by a bright light shining through my window. Depot platform light in Spokane. HEP disconnected. We pull away from the Portland section of the Empire Builder and leave them to their fate as we exit Spokane and enter the eastern Washington scablands at 3:06.

10:20pm- Almost to Whitefish. Lots of eastbound freights on each other’s signal going up the hill. I stopped counting after seven. We just kept moving. Luckily a lot of the west side hill is multiple main 2MT. Next refueling I was told will be in Spokane, WA. 10:25- Arrive Whitefish.

8:20pm- East Glacier Park! Thank gawd. Back to an hour and a half late and the sun is gone and my phone is just about dead.

7:55pm- So since 7pm (or was it 6? Time is different out here) we’ve been doing walking speed (4mph) behind a westbound freight with mechanical issues. Disabled westbound finally limped into a siding and we followed him in. Can you see where this is going? I knew you would. (For those in the...

Hugemungas BNSF snow fence as tall as the train and made from steel I-beams. Uplifted sandstone, mudstone, sand and silts west of Browning, MT. We ain’t in that flatlands no more. Original abandoned Great Northern mainline. I always keep my eye out for these. Drives DW crazy.

6:10pm- The windmills of my mind. 6:16- ‘Yar! There be mountains dead ahead! And they look mighty rocky! Did I ever mention that the cafe/lounge attendant said I’m the only one drinking the rum this trip? This is from the bridge west of Cutbank, MT. I always broke my couplers here playing...

5:45 OK, quick quiz for both of you reading this thread while stuck here in Shelby for some unknown reason. Why does this locomotive have a letter “F” on it?

5:10 First snow fencer of many yet to come.

3:38pm Havre, MT- More fuel for our thirsty locomotives. Then we will pull up to the station for a quick loading/unloading of passengers.