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)

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)

Stalked by a black helicopter: MRL's OCS was preceded along its run from New Westminster by a black helicopter, presumably providing security oversight ahead of the train -- and perhaps pro... (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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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 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)

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)

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)