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

Mornings in the Palouse are well-known for the interplay of light and shadow amongst the hills that so readily identify the region. Incomprehensibly vast acreages of cultivated fields supply the ... (more)

Breakfast of champions: Engineer Larry concentrates on the picture in the mirror as he runs long hood forward south towards Willada. His preferred snack of chips and Tabasco, visible perc... (more)

At the end of a foreshortened day the PCC job with only nine cars from Winona rolls through Hooper, where the striped field in the foreground has been cultivated to to match the arc of both the PC... (more)

Two ancient EMDs smoke it up as they work hard to drag a modern-era empty unit grain train up the 1.67% grade at MP 34 on the W&I's mainline through the Palouse region. It certainly was strange s... (more)

A pack of cattle flee away from the tracks as GP30 3004, wearing the stylized PCC "graffiti" logo over old Ohio Central colors, and GP35 3651 in actual PCC paint trundle past the two elevators in ... (more)

After arriving at Endicott the day before with the 3651 in the lead, PCC engineer Larry wanted to make the morning run to Mockonema with 3004 on the point. Once the 3651 had been set over to the ... (more)

Rumors of its demise have been mildly exaggerated! Following the recent decision to route through traffic away from the Yakima Valley and Stampede Subs, BNSF planned a series of Electronic... (more)

Loaded grain train G-CSNINB9-02H is strung out through the Upper Canyon of the Yakima River, highlighted by this pair of long 10-degree curves at MP 12. The two units shown here, spliced in at mi... (more)

In the glow of the very last light of a hazy spring evening, a BNSF manifest works southward along Puget Sound just south of the South South Bellingham control point. This train originated in Edm... (more)

Another chapter ends for Stampede Pass: Just days before BNSF unexpectedly shut down Stampede Pass due to low traffic volume, one of the last westbounds to depart Ellensburg works along the... (more)

Another piece of history vanishes: It may be the dead of winter, but the business of moving the midwest's agricultural products hasn't stopped at the Graham Grain elevator in Terre Haute, ... (more)

Exhaust pours from the stacks of Housatonic Railroad GP35s 3602 and 3600 (the latter having recently been repainted) as they accelerate northbound train NX-13 out of Lee along the line's namesake ... (more)

Late on an absolutely frigid winter evening -- the air temp was 15F and the wind chill was almost zero -- a remarkably clean Warbonnet dodged shadows as it ducked under Fullers Flyover, crossed Fr... (more)

On a gloomy autumn day, a fly fisherman casts for trout on Esopus Creek below Catskill Mountain Railroad's Bridge C-30. This bridge, originally built by the Ulster & Delaware Railroad, is current... (more)