Up, up and away! Spooked by the approaching grain shuttle, a heron takes flight away from its hunting grounds along the Palouse River.

A beautiful early-autumn afternoon at the place Peter Furnee jokingly calls Honan Overlook finds yet another empty co... (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)

Late on an intermittently stormy summer afternoon, a loaded UP coal train drops through the Gilluly horseshoes. A cluster of fast-moving clouds had just enough of a gap between them to permit thi... (more)

At first light on an autumn morning, a long and heavy eastbound stack train grinds up the 0.7% grade at Essig siding, handicapped by the third SD40-2 being offline. (Credit where it's due: A phot... (more)

Capturing a moment in time: "A more human way to travel" is VIA Rail's current marketing slogan, and endearingly demonstrating that tenet is the hand-written rate sheet posted in a window a... (more)

To this day I have no idea why two former CP MLWs, at the time marked QGRY 4222 & 4242, were parked on a stub track near the LNA&C's interchange with NS, nor what ever became of the units.

A quiet morning at Potlatch: With nothing to do while the St. Maries River Railroad crew shuffles around empty log cars nearby, STMA 997 basks in the sun on the Potlatch mill lead. This old warri... (more)

BNSF's Lakeside Subdivision has a 15-mile stretch of two main tracks between Cunningham and Lind which is often used for making running meets. The Pasco East dispatcher used this stretch to his a... (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)

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)

Following the gentle grade of the Yakima River, an eastbound empty grain train is just about to enter the twisting canyon that lies between Cle Elum and Ellensburg on BNSF's Stampede Sub. Across ... (more)

Ride the Wave... The brilliant sun beams at dawn on a winter morning turn the blue waves adorning the flanks of Sounder's passenger cars into a shimmering stream of liquid gold. There may... (more)

In Coal Country, railroading truly is a religion.