After picking up interchange from the Pend Oreille Valley Railroad at Sandpoint, Idaho, BNSF’s Sandpoint local departs at West Boyer on September 26, 2021. This Sunday version of the local is po... (more)

A westbound BNSF vehicle train crosses the long bridge over Lake Pend Oreille as it departs Sandpoint, Idaho, on the afternoon of October 6, 2018.

A westbound potash train approaching Mountain Home on the Nampa, Idaho.

Everything just worked out perfectly for this chase with the Challenger 3985. It had spent the night in Pocatello, Idaho. I departed early eastbound with cool temperature, so the smoke and steam w... (more)

One of those days when it all came together. First off, yes, it's "THE" Logger, not simply "Logger"....running from Bennett Sawmill in Harvard to Palouse. Turned out to be the least expensive priv... (more)

Three BNSF C44-9Ws bring a BNSF grain empty over the long bridge spanning an arm of Lake Pend Oreille between Algoma and Sandpoint, Idaho, on February 3, 2022. BNSF’s is constructing another new... (more)

Canadian Pacific 6644, a former SD9043MAC rebuilt into an SD70ACU and painted to commemorate the D-Day landings of June 6th, 1944, leads a southbound manifest into Bonners Ferry, ID across the Koo... (more)

A southbound Canadian Pacific grain train, freshly interchanged to Union Pacific just ten miles to the north at Eastport, rolls along the Moyie River in far northern Idaho. Smoke from the nearby R... (more)

Pend Oreille Valley’s Sandpoint turn has just finished interchanging cars with the BNSF at Sandpoint, and is now departing westbound with empties for rail-served customers on the way back to New... (more)

A bumper sticker lowered onto the northbound lane of Division Avenue at the grade crossing of Union Pacific’s Spokane Subdivision main line suggests it’s time to mellow out based on your locat... (more)

Passing milepost 10 on the Pend Oreille Subdivision at Algoma, Idaho, is an eastbound BNSF coal train off the Montana Rail Link on September 26, 2021.

An empty Centralia coal train passes under a Searchlight Signal bridge on a cool May morning.

A CP manifest makes its way across an inlet of Lake Pend Orielle in Sandpoint ID on BNSF tracks.

A Westbound 10 car BNSF OCS glides across the Lake Pend Oreille bridge in Sandpoint, Idaho on BNSF's Kootenai River Subdivision.

With just moments of light left on MRL's 4th Subdivision, a loaded coal train bound for Robert's Bank British Columbia swings under the E. Hope Cantilever signal bridge. The vintage BNSF H1 paint ... (more)