Northern Pacific passenger train Extra 6506C East, the Vista-Dome North Coast Limited, passes through the short tunnel beneath the Tacoma smelter at Ruston, Washington, in November 1959. Train detoured for unknown reasons, over NP Auburn-Vancouver, SP&S Vancouver-Pasco. Photo by J.M. Fredrickson. Other Subject Classes: passenger train, diesel locomotive, tunnel, industrial building

Southern Pacific (SP) diesel locomotive 7357 at Ruston, Washington, on August 06, 1987. Burlington Northern train number 111 led by SP engine 7357 at the Ruston Tunnel on the Point Defiance line between McCarver Street and Sixth Avenue. This train is headed for California over the Point Defiance Line and will be turned over to the SP at either Vancouver, Washington or SP's Brooklyn yard in Portland, Oregon. The two locomotives are painted in the "Kodachrome" paint scheme that was to be used in the failed Southern Pacific/Santa Fe merger. Photo by J.M. Fredrickson. Other Subject Classes: freight train, diesel locomotive.

Union Pacific Railroad diesel locomotive number 1402 at Ruston, Washington, in 1973. UP 1402 leads 3615 and 3622 on freight train No. 691 through Ruston Washington in 1973. Photo by J.M. Fredrickson. Other Subject Classes: diesel locomotive, freight train.

Union Pacific Railroad diesel locomotive number 909 at Ruston, Washington, undated. UP 909 leads passenger train No. 338 out of the short tunnel under the smelter at Ruston. Photo by J.M. Fredrickson. Other Subject Classes: diesel locomotive, passenger train.