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Yakima is located in the central part of Washington state and deserves to have access to public passenger train service once again. 🚂

It's Family Fun month, so celebrate with us with these five places in the Yakima valley, making sure you and your family make memories for a lifetime!

If you're going you're urged to wear yellow or white T-shirts. Signs need to reflect the problem of human trafficking.

I love the area around Snoqualmie and North Bend. There is plenty to do over the course of a weekend. You can check out Snoqualmie Falls, Downtown North Bend, hike on Mount Si and visit the NW Railway Museum. If, like me, as a kid you were always fascinated with trains this is a great opportunity to take a 70-minute journey on a real old-time locomotive and experience what it was like when the Gre

Over the weekend I stopped by an estate sale on Snowmountain Road and saw the coolest thing in the basement: a miniature railroad patterned after the Moxee Toppenish and Western. As you can see from the photos below, the former owner must have had well over 100 different cars, railroad crossings, stations, hundreds of feet of track, bridges, a representation of Toppenish from more than a century a

The House Ag Committee Conservation and Forestry Subcommittee held a public hearing Tuesday to review the definition of the proposed Waters of the U.S. rule and its impact on rural America. Subcommittee members asserted the EPA has acted on its own - without input from states and stakeholders - to broaden the scope of the Clean Water Act - threatening the livelihood of farmers and ranchers and rur

SEATTLE (AP) -- Heavy weekend rain has caused mudslides around western Washington, including a handful that have stopped passenger train service between Seattle and the city of Everett, about 25 miles north. Sound Transit is providing bus service for commuters who usually take the Sounder train to work...

Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad says it will spend $189 million to improve its track system in Washington state this year.

U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell questioned a top rail industry executive whether railroads are investing enough in infrastructure as increasing delays in freight rail traffic have impacted shipments of goods nationwide, and recently forced a Washington state agriculture shipper to suspend service and cut jobs ... Read More ...