westbound BN grain train, Cow Creek bridge on now-abandoned SP&S mainline. Parallel is the UP Washy mainline at Ankeny, WA. Around 1/2 mile walk from parallel highway across farmer's field to get ... (more)

The walk out to this location wasn't THAT bad--drive the farm road to the UP Washy at Ankeny, then down a farmer's field under the big trestle. . .then along the rocks and up onto the bluff overlo... (more)

In celebration of its 150th anniversary, Union Pacific is running a special train around its system led by the famed trio of E9s. This morning the train departed Spokane after another successful ... (more)

A verdant patch of cultivated crops conspicuously contrasts with the natural brown color of the the eastern Washington "desert." Lying between the irrigated Columbia Basin Project lands and the f... (more)