BNSF's priority Portland to Chicago Z Train emerges from the basalt rock cut at North Dalles with majestic Mount Hood looming in the background. Yes, many a photographer has captured this view fr... (more)

Rolling alongside the Pillars of Lyle a manifest freight from Seattle to Pasco is making good time in the beautiful Columbia River Gorge. Business is good on BNSF Railway and the railroad is borr... (more)

Plunging through Tunnel No. 2 a BNSF grain empty from Vancouver is headed east back to the northern plains for another load of grain.

Tied down for the weekend, former Portland Traction Company SW1 of the Oregon Pacific Railroad rests at the company's East Portland yard in Milwaukie in the very early hours of a Sunday morning.

Keeping Burlington Northern's route over Stevens Pass open during the winter months is hard work and requires locomotives, train crews, MOW employees and snow removal equipment to get the job done... (more)

Flying high over Box Canyon bridge a Burlington Northern westbound freight descends from the Palouse interior into Snake River Canyon on the former SP&S railroad. This line was abandoned in 1988 ... (more)

Throttling up at East Siding Switch Quartz after swapping locomotive consists and withdrawing from helper service, a Union Pacific westbound freight heads west toward LaGrande, OR. Check out that... (more)

DAMN THE TORPEDOS, FULL SPEED AHEAD! Under a typical moisture laden western Washington sky, Burlington Northern Interdivisional Freight from Everett to Longview, WA rolls along Puget Sound. Today... (more)

The ATSF had numerous branchlines in southeastern New Mexico to serve the various potash producing mines in the area and this local freight is in route to perform switching at one of them. I did ... (more)

On an extremely warm late spring day in the Thompson River Canyon, a Canadian Pacific Railway merchandise freight rolls through Basque, BC. The ambient temperature was so warm on this particular ... (more)

MRL's Day Gas Local winds through the neighborhood of suburban Desmet gaining altitude climbing Evaro Hill on the 3rd Subdivision.

In the shadow and splendor of Oregon's Mt. Hood, an eastbound Seattle to Pasco manifest freight rolls along the Columbia River approaching Avery, WA on the North Bank Road of the former Spokane, P... (more)

The Jacks Were Back when the grips of the early 1980's recession finally lifted and western railroads found themselves short on power. The issue was magnified when steamship lines started shippin... (more)

Flying high over the Crooked River bridge on a sunny fall day, what could be finer than a beautiful streamliner?

The new Black Gold for BNSF in the form of Bakken Crude oil glides gracefully along the Columbia River at the base of Wind Mountain