Shooting from the Katka Overlook back towards Bonner Ferry, the smoke from the wild fires in the Northwest and Canada can be seen covering all of Northern Idaho. A BNSF Auto Train rolls eastbound ... (more)

An evening eastbound stack rolls across Lake Pend Oreille into Sandpoint. Smoke from the many Northwest wildfires hangs over Idaho.

A morning westbound Stack Rolls off the Lake Pend Oreille Bridge into Algoma Idaho.

Smoke from the many wildfires in the Northwest hangs over Sandpoint Idaho, as an early morning westbound manifest crosses Lake Pend Oreille

With the small Idaho town of Hammett in the distance, UP 7837 is beginning its climb up Medbury Hill on a late spring day.

After a long cross-country journey, UP SD70ACe number 1943, the "Spirit of the Union Pacific" and its officer special consist basks in the golden evening sunlight while parked on the wye at Coeur ... (more)

Three in the snow
A trio of BNSF EMD SD70ACes power a westbound coal train trough snowy Algoma, Idaho, on February 27, 2017.

On a remarkably clear late-spring day in 2018, an eastbound intermodal crosses the soon-to-be-doubletracked bridge across Lake Pend Oreille into Sandpoint, Idaho with 3 GEs, each displaying one of... (more)

A Bald Eagle stands guard at it’s nest, as the twice a day intruder rumbles by and across Benewah Lake near St Maries Idaho.

Tucked away in a corner of the Idaho Panhandle is the St Maries ... (more)

On a crisp, early autumn day, a trio of Montana Rail Link SD45s power a BNSF freight westbound into Algoma, Idaho, only moments after crossing the bridge over Lake Pend Oreille from Sandpoint, on ... (more)

The sun has set in a smoky sky over lake Pend Oreille and on cue, a westbound BNSF manifest crosses the bridge and into my frame. Soon this scene will look rather different, as BNSF is in the pla... (more)

The sun has set in a smoky sky over lake Pend Oreille and on cue, a westbound BNSF manifest crosses the bridge and into my frame. Soon this scene will look rather different, as BNSF is in the pla... (more)

A Bald Eagle has left it’s nest in the care of it’s mate, while it makes a inspection of the beast that daily interrupts the solitude of Benewah Lake.

Railroad: St. Maries River Railroad
Locomotive: EMD GP9
Location: St Maries, Idaho, USA
Locomotive #: STMA 101
Train ID: n/a
Photo Date: July 16, 2018

Here in 2018, more than 100 years from the start of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad and nearly 40 years after it's demise, is the ghost of the Milwaukee Road. Tucked away in a corner o... (more)

Rocky lives!
Rusty and surrounded by faded Big Sky Blue, the famous mascot of Great Northern still survives on GN 50-foot boxcar No. 319499 sitting at the former GN yard in Sandpoint, I... (more)