I had scouted this shot three days earlier on this trip to BC, but overcast skies prevented a successful execution until late in my last morning north of the border. Yet another empty coal train ... (more)

Locations where Bord na Mona's 3-foot narrow gauge tracks cross public roads are guarded by manually-operated gates and split-point derails (known locally as "catch points"). Normally left with t... (more)

A trio of GEs are working hard to lift an eastbound CP manifest out of the Castle River valley as they march across the Alberta prairie on a perfect late-summer morning. The looming presence of t... (more)

Happy 100th birthday, Union Station! Opened in May, 1911 by Union Pacific predecessor Oregon-Washington Railway & Navigation Company and joined soon thereafter by the Chicago, Milwaukee, S... (more)

A sea of blue: I was only 14 years old in the summer of 1996 and -- at the time -- the dissolution three years later of Conrail, the railroad I had grown up with, was an inconceivable notio... (more)

This time of year, once the sun heads south, temperatures drop and moisture-laden storms start stacking up in the mountains, the Evergreen State becomes anything but. After the first big snowfall... (more)

As shadows creep across the Puyallup River valley, commuters aboard Sounder train 1505 are only a few minutes from the end of their train ride to Tacoma. A low deck of quickly-receding clouds par... (more)

Another summer afternoon, another big storm dominating the skies above the Thunder Basin National Grassland. This particular storm actually began its day by tracking south-southeast towards Bill,... (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)

A pack of cattle flee away from the tracks as GP30 3004, wearing the stylized PCC "graffiti" logo over old Ohio Central colors, and GP35 3651 in actual PCC paint trundle past the two elevators in ... (more)

In Coal Country, railroading truly is a religion.

Below sea level: A northbound light rail train briefly ducks below sea level as it reaches the nadir of the bore between International District and Pioneer Square Stations in the Downtown S... (more)

In a 1/15-second pan shot during the blue hour, the nearly-empty purple streetcar turns the corner from Thomas onto Terry as it continues its northward jaunt toward Lake Union. Looming in the dis... (more)

Late on a summer afternoon, BNSF's daily Everett-Spokane manifest ascends the famous loop at Trinidad, just a few miles short of the completing the climb away from the Columbia River at Quincy.

At the moment I photographed this eastbound manifest approaching Lind shortly after sunset, little did I have any clue that I had captured something unique. I later learned that these three locom... (more)