BNSF 8358 leads a loaded grain shuttle west along the shore of Lake Pend Oreille on the west end of Montana Rail Link. The train will enter BNSF rails at Sandpoint for the last lap into Hauser, ID... (more)

MPEX 6201, the sole MP2000C in existence, sits coupled to a few other rarities on the long-term storage track outside Motive Power in Boise, as a major storm rolls into the area. MPI recently anno... (more)

The old and new faces of EMD. A pair of SD40-2s working a yard job, relegated to these duties, pull past a comparatively new SD70ACe, a 2016 graduate of the storied locomotive builder, now working... (more)

The POVA is an amazingly scenic railroad... from a boat. While the railroad skirts the beautiful Pend Oreille River for a large portion of its trip, most of it cannot be viewed or appreciated from... (more)

An eastbound BNSF freight has just crossed the Washington-Idaho state line and approaches Hauser Yard at Hauser Junction, Idaho, on October 6, 2018. A pair a great-looking EMDs power the train—S... (more)

An eastbound BNSF Z train crosses the long single-track bridge over Lake Pend Oreille between Algoma and Sandpoint, Idaho, on the sunny afternoon of October 6, 2018. The train is on the busy “fu... (more)

Soaring across the Pend Oreille River, the POVA heads towards Priest River after running around their train and working at Newport. In addition to the massive bridge, the Albeni Falls Dam in the b... (more)

Looking across the Kootenai River gorge, at a couple geeps passing through Tunnel 4 on the Spokane Sub with the local to Moyie Springs Idaho.

Whose railroad is it anyway? KCS 4607 leads two CP units and a CEFX unit on a westbound UP manifest rolling through Notus, ID. Note the friendly conductor.

When I headed out on July 5. I knew the UP 1982 was coming. But I didn't know where it was in the consist, or if it would actually make it in the morning time frame I was going to be trackside. We... (more)

Union Pacific 6046 leads two GE tier 4's in southeastern Idaho.

On September 5, 2003, a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest crosses the bridge over Lake Pend Oreille between Sandpoint and Algoma, Idaho. Leading the train is former Santa Fe GE B40-8... (more)

Leading empty Canpotex hoppers toward a connection with Canadian Pacific at Eastport/Kingsgate is a quartet of Union Pacific GE ES44ACs on an eastbound UP potash train crossing the Pend Oreille Ri... (more)

UP's Pocatello to Eastport manifest departs Nampa, ahead of an incoming storm, the third to hit the area in the past three days. A pair of CP GEs bracket a CN unit, showing that the two Canadian r... (more)