A westbound BNSF manifest freight off of the Montana Rail Link rolls across the impressive bridge over Lake Pend Oreille and into East Algoma, Idaho, on BNSF busy line between Spokane and Sandpoin... (more)

Starry starry night! An eastbound BNSF freight lights up this night scene on it's approach in to Sandpoint and over the bridge at Pend Oreille Lake.

UP 150th Special from Portland, OR to Green River, WY.

A hot Z9 races out of the state of Washington into Idaho on a summers evening with a unique consist consisting of a BNSF H2, H1, a CSX SD70MAC and a CN Dash-9.

A heavy eastbound manifest eases down the 1.8% grade of Medbury Hill.

UP 150th Special from Portland, OR to Green River, WY.

On a cloudy northwest day, the SMRA Plummer Turn crosses Lake Benewah with a load of interchange traffic for the Union Pacific.

UP-951 East leads the Union Pacific 150th Express Special through the 35 mph curve at MP-371 on the Nampa Sub.

A detouring Pasco to Galesburg freight rolls across the Pack River fill west of Hope, Idaho. This train and quite a few others detoured on the Montana Rail Link during May 2011, because of a soft ... (more)

Luck was with us during our brief visit to Union Pacific's Montpelier, Idaho station on a summer evening, as an inbound local freight returns to town with GP9 184 leading two GP7's on a turn from ... (more)

To me, the highlight of our weekly boating trip to Bear Lake on the Utah-Idaho border was the one night we drove the 25 miles or so into Montpelier, Idaho for a fancy dinner at the steak house in ... (more)

Fun days soon after the BNSF merger: nice set of power on westbound with C44/SD40-2/SF30C.