WAMX 3508 leads a short train through St. Anthony Idaho as the last bit of daylight fades away in the winter sky.

UP 6502 leads the westbound M-NPHKB 22 just east of Pocatello, Idaho.

General Electric Leasing (GECX) ET44AC No. 2029 leads a westbound BNSF freight through Algoma, Idaho, on a snowy February 27, 2017. The locomotive is painted in a solid blue “demonstrator scheme... (more)

BNSF is experiencing a “grain rush” at the end of winter 2017. Closely following a BNSF grain train that passed only a few minutes before, another loaded grain train crosses the long bridge ov... (more)

BNSF is experiencing a “grain rush” at the end of winter 2017. Here, a westbound grain train with lone DPU No. 4753 on the rear, has just cleared the long bridge over Lake Pend Oreille at Sand... (more)

A loaded ash train heads west through Kuna. The horn on 5475 is absolutely beautiful.

We went up to catch the Dry Valley Railroad operation by Soda Springs, Idaho. They had recently started using a couple Alaskan F units. When we got there we found their former power lying in a pil... (more)

An eastbound BNSF grainer rolls through Katka Canyon beside the Kootenay River in the Idaho Panhandle.

BNSF 6621 kicks up snow as it crosses the Pack River Fill along Lake Pend Oreille. Up front are empty Boeing loads returning to the midwest for new Boeing fuselages. An overnight snow storm has du... (more)

UP 8032 highballs it west leading a stack train on the Nampa Sub near Michaud, a few miles out of Pocatello, ID.

A tranquil scene at the blue hour is disrupted by a grain train swimming upstream and into another typical Hauser meltdown. I'd photograph this train at 16:46 and when I went to bed the next morni... (more)

St. Maries River Railroad's GP9 103 leads a trainload of lumber west toward Plummer, ID and the UP interchange. The train is crossing Pedee Creek trestle on the former Milwaukee Road mainline.

In the midst of a heavy snowstorm, an empty eastbound UP ash train just received a new crew. This is the heaviest snowstorm Idaho has experienced in over 30 years, and the main tracks are barely v... (more)

The second section of the Wilder Local switches an industry. The first section of the local derailed a few miles down the line, so 3525 was sent down to finish the first section's switching. Photo... (more)

It's New Years day 2011, and it 7 degrees in south east, Idaho. Back when SD90's were common on UP trains. UP 8099 with ice cycles hanging for it's radiators make it way through the fresh snow cov... (more)