Less than a year before shutting down their Pacific extension, Milwaukee Road crews in the West made a valiant effort to keep things moving. Here a pair of SD10s support a trio of SD40-2s on their... (more)

UP 8444 gets a going over at La Grande yard near the station after spending the day handling a passenger special from Portland, OR. Tomorrow the train heads west to Pendleton for their annual Roun... (more)

One of Sound Transit's morning runs from Everett to Seattle arrives at Edmonds, WA for a station stop. The run has a waterfront view nearly all the way from Everett to King St. Station. It makes a... (more)

Train 2, CP's Canadian waits in the hole on top of Kicking Horse Pass while a westbound sulfur train rolls by. The mid-train remotes are passing by the Canadian's power, using a radio control car ... (more)

ATSF 6302, a GE U23B, shares space at Corwith diesel shops with FM and older EMD power between runs. About this time the Santa Fe began to experiment with the yellow/blue war bonnet scheme that wo... (more)

BNSF 6988 eases an eastbound stack train around the curve east of Monitor, WA on the last lap into Wenatchee for a crew change.Could not have asked for a nicer October day.

BNSF 6310 leads an eastbound coal empty across the causeway at the frog pond at Trout Creek, MT with fall in the foreground and winter just above in the background. This is part of Montana Rail Li... (more)

BNSF 8204 and a former BNSF SD75M leads the afternoon all rail ore train empties (plus some manifest) west on the Canadian National at Goose Lake, near Eagle Mills, MI. The Former C&NW line typica... (more)

It will be a tough start to a long journey for the Canadian as it prepares to leave Vancouver, BC's VIA station for Toronto and Montreal. With blizzard conditions in Vancouver and through the Fras... (more)

CN 8825 waits for a signal to clear so it can proceed up Steelton Hill and head north to Ft. Francis, ON and Winnipeg. The train is on former DMIR trackage which has undergone major improvements w... (more)

CN 2445 leads two GM units on a long freight headed east into Hinton en route to Edmonton, AB. The train has just left Jasper National Park.

VIA 6402 eases the Canadian through S curves and rock cuts at English as the train approaches its Jasper, Alberta station stop.

VIA 6427 leads the Canadian along the shore of Brule Lake (Athabasca River) just out of Swan Landing. Passengers have enjoyed a daylight trip through Jasper National Park and will arrive in Edmont... (more)

VIA observation gets a window cleaning during the Canadian's station stop at Jasper, Alberta.

CN 5614 arrives in Jasper, Alberta while the VIA Canadian gets serviced during its station stop. CN offices are in the background beyond the locomotive, across the tracks from the passenger statio... (more)