Dominating the Seattle-area skyline, Mt. Rainier grab the eye's attention from points spread across thousands of square miles of the Puget Sound region. Barely a month and a half into my tenure a... (more)
On a glorious summer day, the St. Maries River Railroad's Plummer Turn rolls westward near the top of Benewah Lake, bound for the UP interchange at Plummer with 15 cars in tow.
Dashing through the snow: Winter has finally arrived in the Pacific Northwest, and with it comes more trouble for Amtrak's Empire Builder. Running some six hours late on a snowy Satu... (more)
Such a simple scene, yet so complex is the subject: A quartet of ex-NS (originally Conrail) GP38-2s leased by the Indiana Rail Road from Helm Financial tiptoe across a frozen Midwest landscape wit... (more)
Appalachian Railcar Services utilizes the facilities at the retired Breed Generating Station, on the east bank of the Wabash River below Terre Haute, as a car repair shop. On a beautiful winter d... (more)