BNSF 5015 meets Amtrak Empire Builder #7 at Scenic, just before the 7.8-mile long Cascade Tunnel. Not sure who the chair belongs to though...

An eastbound stack train heads along Nason Creek on its way to Chicago.

BNSF 5397 leads a westbound manifest through East Maryhill on BNSF's Fallbridge Subdivision. Note the smiley face in between the number boards.

An ES44AC pulls a northbound intermodal train around the Cantara Loop. All that remains of a string line derailment that happened a week earlier is the fire trailer. It was used to keep brush fire... (more)

UP 7868 runs southbound on Union Pacific's Valley Subdivision, below Castle Crags, a 150-million year old granite pluton formation. The crags range from 2,000 to 6,500 feet above sea level.

Union Pacific SD70M 4917 pulls a Federal Railroad Administration geometry test car past a derelict grain silo.

A detailed photo of DOTX 217 can be found Railroad: Union Pacific
Locomotive: EMD SD70M
Location: Hot Lake, Oregon, USA
Locomotive #: UP 4917
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: September 13, 2012

A Herzog HyRail truck gets pulled behind a loaded rail train just west of Winton.

BNSF 6762 leads a long stack train around one half of the Trinidad Loop.

BNSF 7281 leads an eastbound stack train over Nason Creek and out of the 7.8-mile long Cascade Tunnel, the longest in the United States.

Sounder 1509 heads south through Sumner on Main 2. Photo taken through the window of the cab-car on SDRX 1516.

Briefly hitting 80 miles per hour, the last northbound Sounder of the week, 1516, approaches Auburn.

Leading a stack train, BNSF 5702 emerges into the sunlight after traversing the 7.8 mile long Cascade Tunnel on BNSF's Scenic Subdivision. A fan air intake can be seen on the far left of the photo... (more)

A Z train encounters Tunnel 11.1, built in 1940, at the top of the Trinidad Loop.

Happily humming, three large electric motors pump water to strawberry fields at sunset, while 12 larger electric motors power a northbound Union Pacific manifest train through Mt. Hebron, Californ... (more)

A northbound Union Pacific manifest train travels under the beautiful Mount Shasta in the background, with six engines in tow.