In the very last minutes of sunlight on a hazy summer evening, the Deseret Power Railway's afternoon train begins the descent into Coyote Basin as it returns empty to Deserado Mine. Photo from... (more)

During the record-breaking heat wave in Seattle this past week my thoughts turned to staying cool, which naturally led to fond memories of Stevens Pass in winter. On one such journey in January o... (more)

Imagine being so far out in the middle of nowhere that it's nearly an hour's drive to the nearest gas station. Imagine sitting in this absolutely middle-of-nowhere spot, waiting for the Deseret P... (more)

DPR-1 and its two sisters have just crossed the apex of Holum Pass, the summit of the steepest grade on the Deseret Power Railway. Every single one of the three motors' 6,000 horsepower are neede... (more)

At the very end of a glorious summer day, a trio of Deseret Power Railway's operating E60Cs easily handle 44 coal loads amongst the curiously-shaped and -colored dune formations in Coyote Basin. ... (more)

It's time to play Orin Sub Alphabet Soup! Seven trains are visible in this scene captured at Reno Junction on a beautiful summer morning marred by a cloud of dust drifting west from Black ... (more)

Coal trains are mile-plus-long metal machines. Flood-loading coal silos are giant structures that tower over the surrounding landscape. Both of these human creations are utterly dwarfed by the m... (more)

It was only in a fleeting moment at the end of the day that this scene of loaded coal train C-JRMPED0-36A slowing to a stop at Caballo Junction could be captured. As the sunset's golden rays glin... (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

Shortly after re-entering daylight following its passage through the 9,834-foot-long Stampede Tunnel, this westbound manifest is about to plunge into the darkness of Tunnel 4 -- albeit only briefl... (more)

A trio of GEs are working hard to lift an eastbound CP manifest out of the Castle River valley as they march across the Alberta prairie on a perfect late-summer morning. The looming presence of t... (more)

An overpowered edition of UP's "Produce Express," with an AC44CCTE and a handful of ES44ACs on the head end, twists along the Columbia River shortly after departing the RailEx facility at Wallula,... (more)

Only seven o'clock on a July morning and it's already sweltering hot in the hills above the Columbia River near Trinidad, Washington. The conditions haven't affected this train's three GEs, which... (more)

Peek-a-boo! The smiley face scratched into the grime on the nose door of BNSF 1090 expresses its relief at seeing sunlight once again following a 7.8-mile journey through the darkness of Cascade ... (more)

A beautiful late-winter morning finds a Tacoma Link streetcar cruising past the Greater Tacoma Convention Center on its way to Tacoma Dome Station. Note the classy red jacket worn by the operator... (more)