The summer sky is "going green"--a precursor of tornadic thunderstorms in the area--as a southbound mixed freight departs Lincoln south of Carling Tower (could this be South St. crossing?) and hea... (more)

LMX's and GP50 up front mark this as undeniably a train off the Montana Rail Link, crossing the beautiful Lake Pend Oreille westbound just after joining BN rails for the trip on to Spokane on a st... (more)

Trailing an entire train of auto-racks,BN/MRL train #34 blasts east from Spokane's Yardley terminal behind two LMX B39's, racing out of the setting sun at 6:24pm. Being able to reliably photograph... (more)

Busy times on the west end of downtown Spokane: Train #21, off the MRL with a big cut of autoracks up front, led by GP50/B39/Santa Fe SD40-2, passes train #103, completing an airtest after a big p... (more)

You hear it before you see it--the unmistakable sound of three EMD 567's throttling up--and here it comes, out of the thick winter fog, an A-B-GP9 set leading the Crew 3 transfer between Auburn an... (more)

Pedal to the metal--train #148 roars out of Tacoma after making its setout, approaching Puyallup led by F7A/U25C/F9A/GP35. The 610 is a former Great Northern passenger locomotive which after servi... (more)

The wheat' s been harvested and stubble lines the fields of rural Douglas County as an as-needed local from Wenatchee, bound for nearby Withrow, arrives at the elevator station of Supplee. Those G... (more)

Moments after sunrise, and with a new crew on board the CW Local makes a departure from Almira, bound towards Coulee City behind a trio of F9's and a GP7. Nothing else is moving yet in this small ... (more)

It's always more fun to chase a train when the train crew is into it as well--and here's engineer Jerry Kohliber leaning out the cab of ex-Northern Pacific F9A 808 as he opens wide on the throttle... (more)

A train of empty boxcars and log racks for interchange directly to BN subsidiary Washington, Idaho & Montana railroad descends the last few miles down the grade along the Palouse River towards the... (more)

Just weeks are left in the career of ex-Northern Pacific F7A 720 before retirement, but it continues to roll in grand style, leading the westbound North Bend Turn down Maple Valley on former Pacif... (more)

Milwaukee Road second-trick operator Jerome Bretschneider hoops up the running orders to the crew of BN's returning North Bend Local slowly making its way through the yard at Cedar Falls, Washingt... (more)

It's only been a few months since this rail crossing of the Snoqualmie River outside of North Bend passed from Milwaukee Road to Burlington Northern ownership, but BN trains have been regulars on ... (more)

A pedestrian runs across Mason Street as a slow moving freight enters street running.

The late-summer harvest is on! And BN's CW Local is grinding it out with a nice train of wheat near Creston, Washington, with four former Northern Pacific F9's and GP7 leading the way on the forme... (more)