With the sun just minutes off the horizon, a trio of ES44's running elephant style lead a heavy stack train slowly climbing the 1% grade of Trinidad Hill up from the Columbia River on an early spr... (more)

The Seattle Monorail's Blue Train departs Seattle Center on a warm spring evening, emerging from the strange man-made tunnel of steel through Seattle's Experience Music Project (EMP) Museum.

While the majority of railfans in the Northwest were busy flocking toward the Columbia Gorge for 4449's excursion to Bend, OR, my father and I headed east to the Kootenai River Gorge with a specta... (more)

The desert, the railroad, and the mountain. Photographs can hardly do justice to the incredible majesty of northern California's Mount Shasta, rising 10,000 feet above the surrounding terrain. Eve... (more)

On New Year's Eve, an H2 ES44 and a CSX AC44 lead a westbound unit grain train past a frozen backpool along the Clark Fork River between Noxon and Heron.

An MRL mid-train all-EMD helper set grinds up the final quarter-mile of the 2.2% ascending grade of Mullan Pass, emerging from the recently-shortened Mullan Tunnel and bringing a choking cloud of ... (more)

A southbound UP manifest heads through Wallula Gap near the state line between Washington and Oregon. BNSF's mainline is across the Columbia River.

Winter Wonderland: As fog hangs above the Clark Fork River valley, a westbound manifest thunders out of the west siding switch Toole, kicking up the dry powder along the bank of the river.

During an ongoing construction project to replace old bridge supports, a colorful eastbound stack rumbles across the Sandpoint Bridge, as viewed from Dog Beach on a late summer afternoon.

A rare sight: MRL SD70ACe's in Idaho! Despite Montana Rail Link's mainline extending nearly 40 miles into Idaho and then crews running another 50+ miles over BNSF trackage to Washington, it... (more)

Beneath the incredible backdrop of the Mission Mountains far to the east, a rare quartet of SD40-2's lead the westbound Night Gas through one of the few remaining locations with sunlight along the... (more)

The two units on MRL's outbound Night Gas were hard at work to lift their loaded train up the 2.2% grade of Evaro Hill as they crossed Marent Gulch Trestle on a crisp, clear summer afternoon in Mo... (more)

A colorful westbound stack train headed for a Pacific Northwest port snakes its way through the confines of the Kootenai River Gorge in northern Idaho on a blistering summer afternoon.

Having just emerged from the fog, the eastbound Day Gas Local makes its way along the Jocko River between Ravalli and Arlee during peak fall colors. Despite it being 1:30 P.M., everything west of ... (more)

Due to spring flooding in North Dakota that washed out portions of BNSF's mainline, several high priority intermodal trains were temporarily rerouted over MRL. On an early July morning, a detourin... (more)