Westbound Z train going through Ritzville, WA.

Westbound grain train.

I've had chance encounters with BNSF 982 many times over the years. Like an old friend it's good to see it still hard at work decades later, still in original paint no less. Here it splits the gra... (more)

BNSF 676 takes the lead of a LAUPAS coming into Ritzville, Washington. Peyton Boyd and Spencer Montgomery are seen trying to get pacing shots as we race it into town.

Westbound Z train at Ritzville.

Westbound Z train rolling thru Ritzville, WA.

Westbound grain train at Ritzville, WA.

An eastbound train going through Ritzville, WA.

Loaded grain train headed west.

A westbound Grain train rolls through the small wheat farming town of Ritzville in eastern Washington State.

A westbound grain train rolls through downtown Ritzville. I suspect some gamblers might like the unit number.

After a cold winter night in Ritzville, Washington, conditions were right for everything to be covered with a thick coat of frost on January 23, 2013. An eastbound BNSF grain empty rolls through t... (more)

A westbound Z train kicking up some dust from fresh ballast on the former Northern Pacific mainline from Pasco to Spokane.

Clouds break as a nice clean SD70Ace leads a westbound train towards Pasco WA, with a BNSF eastbound grain train in the siding near Ritzeville, WA on the Lakeside sub.

Cutting through the grain elevators of Ritzville, a portable pipeline rolls westward down the Lakeside Subdivision.