Traffic jam on Logan Hill: A gloomy winter sunrise finds the three tracks at the summit of Logan Hill jammed with coal trains, while a BNSF load in the distance drops down towards Bill. Th... (more)

Sunrise on a spectacular spring morning finds the Northwest Railway Museum's excursion train parked in front of the Snoqualmie Depot, built in 1890 by the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway a... (more)

Thunderstorms rumble off the Cascade Range as NP Rotary Snowplow No. 10 stands sentinel alongside the Northwest Railway Museum mainline outside of downtown Snoqualmie. This proud warrior was buil... (more)

In the summer of 2005, power-short Indiana Southern Railroad turned to any source of loaner engine they could locate... and eventually worked out a deal to lease the three operating Algers, Winslo... (more)

To this day I have no idea why two former CP MLWs, at the time marked QGRY 4222 & 4242, were parked on a stub track near the LNA&C's interchange with NS, nor what ever became of the units.

While riding up the West Highland Line from Glasgow to Fort William on my honeymoon, I was fascinated by the incredible scenery outside the train's windows. About an hour before reaching our dest... (more)

A manned signal box, a manual level crossing, armstrong levers, and semaphores -- it was a long way for this American lad of Irish descent to get to Tipperary, but it was absolutely worth the jour... (more)

On a beautiful spring morning, a loaded coal train is stretched across Bridge 37.0, through Delta Jct. and along the south bank of the Snohomish River on the Bayside Main. After loading at Spring... (more)

An outbound Seattle Streetcar service swings around the corner from Westlake onto Thomas in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood. The iconic Space Needle dominates this blue hour scene, its ro... (more)

Clouds help obscure the setting full moon as a northbound Link train begins an early-morning journey to Seattle.

To truly appreciate the obstacles overcome by railroad surveyors and engineers over a century ago, one must rise above the treeline and grasp firsthand the "big picture." On an absolutely perfect... (more)

A perfect spring morning meant I had to stop in downtown Snoqualmie on the way to work for a few photos of the Northwest Railway Museum. Th... (more)

Lending truth to the name "armstrong lever," the signal box operator at Tipperary leans waaaaay back to line up the morning eastbound service from Limerick Junction to Waterford. The levers are d... (more)

Charging toward the Lech-a-vute summit on a typically gloomy and damp autumnal Scottish morning, Black 5 No. 45407 leaves behind a long trail of smoke amongst the craggy lower slopes of Sgurr a'Mh... (more)

Glistening on a spectacular morning that had a hint of spring in the air, brand-new Sounder engine SDRX 923 sits coupled to a train at Amtrak's Seattle Maintenance Facility. Looming in the distan... (more)