Amtrak train 17, the North Coast Hiawatha races into St. Paul past Milwaukee Road's Pigs Eye Yard hump tower and BN's main and Dayton's Bluff yard lead. E9 MILW 31C, built in April 1956, which wil... (more)

BNSF 738 leads a freight northward through Sandpoint at the marina on the shore of Lake Pend Oreille. Vintage ATSF Dash 9, BNSF 622, trails still wearing its 19 year old original Santa Fe colors w... (more)

CP 8921 leads a freight north toward Cranbrook, BC at Quarry siding south of Cranbrook. The train was received from Union Pacific at the US border at Kingsgate, BC/Eastport, ID.

CP 8828 crosses a causeway just north of Canal Flats along Columbia Lake with an empty coal train headed toward Ft. Steele. At Canal Flats the CP line will continue south along the Kooteney River.... (more)

CP 8828 rounds a curve south of Golden, BC with its empty coal train headed south to Ft. Steele and loading in the Crows Nest Pass area. Going south the CP line follows the Columbia River to its h... (more)

A visit to the Vancouver, BC area netted this pleasant surprise, a pair of rare NW5s handling yard switching duties in New Westminster yard. These 1000 HP switchers were part of an order for 10 by... (more)

Operating long hood first in a salute to the preference of previous owner Great Northern, BN 6603 has Train 3 pretty much on schedule after losing the lead SD45 at Quincy, WA due to a wheel failur... (more)

A scrap pile of wheels engulfs the cab of an Alco RS-11 at Joseph Simon & Sons scrap yard located in the Tacoma tideflats and the final resting place for a number of BN, MILW and UP locomotives ov... (more)

BN 720 leads an A-B-A of Fs on an Everett Turn heading north toward Seattle from Auburn through Kent, WA. A bit of low winter sun breaks through the clouds putting a bit of glint on the side of t... (more)

Fast forty UP 8059 leads a trio of CNW SD40-2s west on a "Russian" grain train headed to a Pacific Northwest port for export. It would take 18 more years for these long time partners to ... (more)

MP 3165, a non-dynamic brake SD40-2 showed up at Albina Yard, Portland, OR in run-through/mileage equalization. Five years later in 1982 UP would react to the BN-Frisco merger (1980) by merging wi... (more)

UP NW2 1044, a GP9 and DRGW SD45 no. 5327 have a transfer at what I believe was the wye that connected the Rio Grande to the Western Pacific in Salt Lake City. The Rio Grande station is in the bac... (more)

UP turbines 14 & 16 A units are parked at Salt Lake City near the Union Pacific station. No. 14 was built in March 1960 and No. 16 was built in June 1960. Both were retired in February 1970 after ... (more)

BN 8185 has its train stopped near the Skykomish, WA depot on the siding to allow helpers to be removed. Having made the trip from Wenatchee over Stevens Pass, the train will continue to Seattle o... (more)

BN 2220 runs west from Skykomish as a caboose hop opreating as a turn out of Everett, WA. The former CB&Q GP30 running GN style, long hood first on the former GN mainline, is accompanied by a form... (more)