Union Pacific's Ogden, UT to Portland, OR manifest climbs Medbury Hill with a rare (for southern Idaho) trio of CN EMDs trailing. The SD75I was originally supposed to lead out of Ogden, but they p... (more)

Having just departed Minot on the third leg of the CPKC Final Spike Steam Tour about fifteen minutes earlier, CP 2816, 1401, and 4107 roll eastbound through the small hamlet of Logan, North Dakota... (more)

Yesterday was Taco, erm... Wednesday, on the Huntington Sub, as KCSM 4538 led a westbound manifest. I was still in bed when I received word they were working at N459, the west end of Nampa Yard, a... (more)

CBRL's southbound Hauler rolls across the trestle at Saunders Lake County Park between Hauser and Reedsport, OR as a couple of local fishermen start their day, one from the boat and the other from... (more)

UP MHKNP-10 rolls eastbound through Shoshone, ID on main #1 with NS 1069, the Virginian heritage unit, trailing 4th out, dead in tow missing her numberboards and red flagged for repair once the tr... (more)

Three BNSF Dash-9s lead a westbound loaded coal train up the beginning of the climb towards Mullan Pass with downtown Helena in the background. A four pack of MRL SD70ACes acting as mid-train help... (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)

Precision Scheduled Railroading at work. Union Pacific's Portland, OR to North Platte, NE manifest put 28 cars on the ground at approximately 1 AM MST on 12/5/2021, just outside Hammett, Idaho... (more)

I was standin' on a corner (not THE corner, though I did visit that too) in Winslow, Arizona on the Route 66 overpass at the west end of town, as, in blistering (for this Idaho girl) 105 degree he... (more)

The money shot at Winona came to fruition on my first visit, as an eastbound intermodal of unknown symbol drifts downhill after a rolling meet with a westbound.

Coos Bay Rail Line's southbound Hauler heads for Coos Bay; the hoppers on the head end are headed to add ballast to the currently out-of-service portion of the line between Coos Bay and Coquille, ... (more)

"I don't like sand." But on the coast, it's just a fact of life. The northbound Coos Bay Hauler, sporting just a single MP15DC today, rolls north towards Hauser along the famous Orego... (more)

Oregon Eastern recently acquired a former Hudson Bay Railway GP39-3 (ex-SP GP35) from Western Rail, Inc. in exchange for three of their four GP7s - the fourth was retained as backup power for when... (more)

A run-of-the-mill GEVO is the rear DPU on the S-TACLPC entering the siding at Cashmere, WA to meet their westbound counterpart as seen in 712684.