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)

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)

A mid-afternoon southbound service pulls out of Mt. Baker Station; the train will shortly return to street level for the run down the Rainier Valley. The flared tips on the catenary poles are sup... (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.

When BNSF Chairman, President and CEO Matt Rose decides it's time to tour his railroad, he does so in style. On a spectacular spring evening in the Columbia Basin, Executive Inspection Trip O-NWES... (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)

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

Late on a summer afternoon, BNSF's daily Everett-Spokane manifest ascends the famous loop at Trinidad, just a few miles short of the completing the climb away from the Columbia River at Quincy.

Their work complete on a glorious summer evening, VIA RDCs 6135 and 6148 leave Victoria station behind as they trundle across the Victoria Harbor drawbridge, deadheading back to the shop for the n... (more)

A westbound UP manifest is only a couple miles from the end of the D&RGW's Dotsero Cutoff as it cruises between the Colorado River and 900-foot-tall bluffs on an autumn afternoon.

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)

Return to glory: After 11 years of dreams, plans, setbacks, successes, grant awards, fundraising, track rehab and car refurbishment, the Railroad: Issaquah Valley Trolley
Locomotive: Gomaco Trolley
Location: Issaquah, Washington, USA
Locomotive #: IVT 519
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: August 25, 2012

One of CP's Christmas Train units departs Wells siding in the scablands of eastern Washington on UP's Ayer Sub late on a summer afternoon. The 4-3/4" superelevation of the outside rail in the 2-d... (more)

Strong moonlight illuminates John Stevens Canyon on the west flank of Marias Pass on a chilly winter night. A westbound BNSF train brightens the inside of Tunnel 3.8, while on the hillside above ... (more)

Assisted by a 40mph tailwind and the Whitefish helpers, S-TACCHC1-18A sails up the grade at Grizzly on a bone-chilling winter evening east of the Rocky Mountains. The trailing unit died on the cl... (more)