BNSF's Low Line job crosses the Snake River near Burbank, WA on its way south toward Wallula. After switching the massive Paper Mill at Wallula, the train will begin its trek east on UP's Ayer Sub... (more)

Just a few miles from completing its round trip to Clarkia and back, the "Branch Train" as it was known to train crews rolls down the St. Maries River Valley on a warm summer evening. Sa... (more)

A perfect summer day in the Inland Northwest is just getting underway as the Pend Oreille Valley Railroad's only GP9 crosses the wooden trestle over Kent Creek south of Dalkena with a short train ... (more)

One of my favorite experiences of my recent California trip was at a vantage point high on the rocks to the northeast of the famous Keddie Wye. Just after 8 A.M., UP's Canyon Crawler eases out ont... (more)

Winter in the Idaho Panhandle! A westbound coal train headed for the Centralia, WA coal-fired power plant is seen racing along the north shore of Lake Pend Oreille between Hope and Kootenai on a f... (more)

The chase is on! After leaving Keddie midday, track work near Paxton delayed this train long enough that it ended up making a run down the heart of the Feather River Canyon in some awesome afterno... (more)

BNSF's Bend Local is just beginning its return trip to Bend as it soars high above Willow Creek on the massive steel trestle in Madras, Oregon on a warm summer evening.

Sunlight has just began shining into the Columbia River Gorge at the start of a summer morning as an eastbound garbage train rolls past the small village of Maryhill, with snow-capped Mount Hood t... (more)

A busy morning on the Fallbridge Sub is in full swing as the usual morning Z train blasts eastward up the Columbia River approaching Maryhill, with 11,250-foot-high Mount Hood looming in the dista... (more)

On a beautiful August evening, a monster-sized stack train drops downgrade through some fantastic Sierra Nevada scenery at Yuba Gap, passing through Tunnels 36 and 35. This train lost power from t... (more)

My first visit to the Feather River Canyon ended up being quite successful, which was a nice mood boost after a less-than-stellar visit to the Shasta Route. I spent most of my time near the upper ... (more)

It doesn't get much more "Donner" than this! (Except for perhaps some SP Tunnel Motors or Cab Forwards). Climbing the same grade that trains have been battling for nearly 150 years, an e... (more)

As the first golden rays of sun begin shining through the treetops, a westbound unit grain train races across the massive fill and into the rock cut at Granite, Idaho on "The Funnel". So... (more)

From a vantage point on the rocks high above Plateau Tunnel, one of MRL's sporadically-ran unit talc trains races down the Clark Fork River through some spectacular canyon scenery on its journey w... (more)

The morning sun has just started shining into the remote Kootenai River Gorge as a westbound manifest twists along the bottom of the canyon between Yakt and Leonia, with about three mile to go unt... (more)