How does Boeing park several airplanes on a single runway at Paine Field?
It was tugged to that position via tug.
Angle of photo + possibly trying to offset weight, from centerline.
These planes are just being stored there. They'll be tugged to another location
before they even bother to start them up, and I believe most don't
have engines on at present.
They are quite close together.
(from @ratchetfreak's answer:) Turn the image around as if you are coming to land; it's actually 16L a perfectly normal runway number.
Its just a very compact way of parking aircraft in minimum space. Compare the space taken up by those 4 planes versus any 4 nose-to-tail on the runway.


These aircraft are mostly 787s that are the early teen aircraft that were rejected by the original airlines they were slated for, due to so many out of tolerance issues/rework required. They are just being stored on the runway until Boeing can get them into mod/rework status and get them to spec to be able to sell. Right now the mod line seems to be working on one of these aircraft, at a time, and each one taking many, many months to get fully reworked.