A Burlington Northern Stack train rolls west along Puget Sound en-route to the Seattle area on a fine late summer day.

This is Southern Pacific territory and way off the beaten path for recently formed BNSF Railway to be operating a train as ATSF 2755 South rolls through Corona, NM en-route to El Paso. At the tim... (more)

Resting peacefully inside the Chama, NM engine house, Baldwin K-36 number 488 waits her next tour of duty.

Pulling a couple loads of grain from the classic wood elevator a Fort St. John Yard Job goes about its duties switching local industries on the perimeter of the terminal.

Overcoming gravity is a Montana Rail Link specialty! Here we see the LM(Laurel to Missoula) climbing the east slope of Mullan Pass with 3 units on the point and a four unit manned helper cut in a... (more)

Rolling through the Lower Fraser River Valley Canadian National Extra 5431 East occupies the "OS" at East Siding Switch Floods while a westbound coal load patiently waits for the signal at the wes... (more)

The ATSF had numerous branchlines in southeastern New Mexico to serve the various potash producing mines in the area and this local freight is in route to perform switching at one of them. I did ... (more)

Burlington Northern 1920 East holds clear of Bridge 4 in Ballard, WA with a quartet of EMD GP9's in various trim levels. Aside from the rainy cloudy day, what I noticed right away about this photo... (more)

CPR Extra 5988 West is on the approach to East Savona, BC while a CNR freight races westward on the opposite side of Kamloops Lake; capitalist competition at its finest. Which crew will tie up fi... (more)

D&SNG engine # 482 waits on the south leg of the wye at Silverton while the 2nd passenger train of the day with engine # 480 backs into the north leg of the wye to turn their train.

Rolling along Airport Way adjacent to Boeing Field in South Seattle is Burlington Northern train # 111 making track speed on its way to Portland, OR and connection with interchange partner South... (more)

While the passengers riding along get their Jack-O-Lantern On, Mount Rainer Scenic Railroad operated a Pumpkin Excursion Train in honor of Halloween with a Baldwin Locomotive Works 2-8-2 formerly ... (more)

The 2nd daily D&S Passenger train led by engine # 481 pauses on the Silverton wye while the 1st daily train led by engine # 482 heads south and returns to Durango. At an elevation of 9305 feet, t... (more)

The Ferndale Turn heads south through the north end of South Bellingham sdg. This train's purpose was to gather up tonnage left over from the local freights that operated on the Mainline between ... (more)

Drifting downgrade with a minimum set of train line air and the curvature of the track doing the rest, MRL's Missoula to Laurel freight descends Mullen Pass in the wonderful Rocky Mountains on a f... (more)