Sounder and Amtrak Trains in Tacoma, WA

On July 5th 2019, we visit both the Sounder Commuter Rail and Amtrak stations in Tacoma, Washington. The Sounder station is located on the former Milwaukee Road alignment, now only seeing commuter trains and occasional local freights, while the Amtrak station is located alongside the busy BNSF Seattle Sub.
The Amtrak station was slated to close in 2016, and operations moved to the Sounder station. Due to a fatal crash on the new route during the first run (owing to incorrect high speed around a curve), the previous station was reopened after just 24 hours, and remains open today. The new route through the Sounder station will reopen once PTC installation has been completed and tested on the line.

[@captainnolan5062]

Nice video. Thanks for posting Tacoma train footage.

[@justinnguyen848]

Wait I never knew the sounders raced here in Tacoma

[@denault3985]

Wow, Sounder's are so clean... Metrolink here in SoCal are dirty and mismatched! Great video-photography btw...

[@superbaddy4]

0:26 Perfect sync between two horrid abominations of Cab Cars!

[@wilfstor3078]

I actually kinda like the new bombardier cab car.Their horn being shit I can agree with however.

[@Midway_CV-41]

Neat video!

[@vinceachurra3808]

Commuter railroad they did right decision because the FRA regulations needed new cab car have to protect the engineer in a event of collision