With mountains stretching to the horizon, the region west of the Continental Divide would seem to be an impossible place for a railroad to traverse -- yet the Rio Grande found the Colorado River a... (more)

Spring time in Chelan County, Washington, means the apple trees will soon be in bloom. An eastbound stack train assembled at the Port of Seattle follows the Wenatchee River out of the Cascade Mou... (more)

Drama had been building for a few minutes as I could hear the sound of laboring Geeps echoing through the remote canyon that the STMA's ex-Milwaukee Bovill Branch twists through between Lotus and ... (more)

Golden sunlight breaks through scattered clouds on a summer morning at Deserado Mine in the northwest corner of Colorado. The Deseret Power Railway yard and mine loadout are quiet for the moment,... (more)

On a quiet Sunday in the heart of Washington's Palouse region, PCC 2353 and BAR 360 are parked at the grain elevator at Sunset, near the end of the PCC's PV Sub. In two days, a PCC crew will take... (more)

Early on a summer morning, a train of export coal bound for Prince Rupert, B.C. begins its ascent of Mullan Pass behind a pair of big CP GEs, with a four-pack of MRL SD70ACes tucked in two-thirds ... (more)

Off to the races! A trio of horses gallop alongside a loaded grain train near Sunset, Washington, in the heart of the Palouse region. A late harvest brought on by unusually wet spring wea... (more)

Washington's Cascade Mountains are well-known in the railfan community for both acting as a picturesque backgrounds for flatland locations Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: EMD GP38
Location: Lawrence, Washington, USA
Locomotive #: BNSF 2276
Train ID: L-NWE6441-19T
Photo Date: July 19, 2008

Goodnight, little SLUT: On a warm summer night in Seattle's South Lake Union district, the orange streetcar has laid down its pantograph and gone to sleep at the SLUT Operations & Maintenan... (more)

St. Maries River Railroad GP9s 101 and 103 roll downstream along the line's namesake with only a few miles remaining before they rejoin the old Milwaukee Road mainline at St. Maries.

It took two years of waiting for the opportunity to get back to the summit of Holum Pass, but when I finally was able to set up there once again I couldn't have arranged for better light. Storms ... (more)

COAL. That one word pretty much sums up everything that's going on in this photo: Two loaded Union Pacific trains grind up the 1.0% grade of Logan Hill on Mains 4 (C-ANC91-06, left) and 3... (more)

Anatomy of a Meet, Part 1: This is how to run a double-track railroad. The head ends of eastbound S-SEPLPC1-23K and westbound M-SPOPAS1-23A are three miles apart in this view of Providence... (more)

Rolling westward behind a trio of Amtrak GEs, a GrandLuxe (formerly American Orient Express) summer-2007 "Great Northwest & Rockies" excursion pops out of the cut below Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: GE P42DC
Location: Crater, Washington, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 138
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: June 20, 2007

Who says big-time yard operations are an ugly unphotogenic mess? The very first rays of sunlight on a sub-freezing winter morning glaze the east Receiving Yard ladder at Selkirk Yard with a golde... (more)