Another spectacular clear morning sky greets the northbound Coast Starlight as it banks into a curve approaching Cougar, California beneath a snowy Mount Shasta.

A southbound manifest with a cut of Pacific Northwest lumber on the point rumbles across Dry Canyon Trestle approaching Hotlum with Mount Shasta and Shastina behind.

A late-running Seattle-bound Empire Builder blasts up the grade towards Lyons during a spectacular summer sunrise in Eastern Washington.

Three matched blue MRL SD45's lead a westbound M-LAUSPO down the Clark Fork River along the narrow rock shelf approaching Plateau Tunnel (the portal of which can be seen on the right).

A westbound manifest cruises through the deep and narrow basalt rock cuts nearing Plymouth along the north side of the Columbia River.

With the sunlight fading fast at the end of a long summer day, a westbound oil train navigates the Kootenai River Gorge between Katka and Crossport at the northernmost location on BNSF's entire No... (more)

The westbound Day Gas skirts along a mirror-like reflection pond just east of Plains, Montana on a clear summer morning.

One of the North Pend Oreille Valley Lions Club's chartered excursion trains for the annual "Down River Days" festival in Ione, WA heads south over a small wooden trestle on the return t... (more)

In a scene that looks more like it's along the old ATSF through the Southwest, an eastbound Z train cruises through the scenic coulee country following Crab Creek between Marlin and Irby on BNSF's... (more)

Southbound Amtrak Cascades #517 races across the causeway over Chuckanut Bay just south of Bellingham, having just emerged from the tunnel through Clark's Point.

Three H3's hustle an empty unit coal train east over the Pack River Fill on the north shore of Lake Pend Oreille during a light December snowfall.

A northbound Oregon Trunk manifest drops down towards the Columbia River as it emerges from the tunnel below Moody. Within a few minutes the train will cross the Celilo Drawbridge over the Columbi... (more)

The two ex-Milwaukee GP9's powering today's STMA "Switcher" are spewing out a cloud of exhaust as they pull a healthy train of 23 loads of lumber westward down the St. Joe River valley, ... (more)

A massive 150 car manifest struggles upgrade through the S-curves on the west side of Telocaset Hill in arid Eastern Oregon. In the distance, the Blue Mountains are obscured in haze from fires far... (more)

An empty unit coal train on its return journey from the Boardman Power Plant to the Powder River Basin winds its way through the reverse curves between Port Kelley and Wallula on UP's Ayer Sub. Th... (more)