During the summer of 2020, the Durango and Silverton was not operating revenue passenger trains between its titular towns, instead merely running between Rockwood and Cascade Canyon. However, equi... (more)

After meeting an eastbound Q-train, BNSF U-ROOEVE (Garbage Empties, Roosevelt, WA to Everett, WA) slowly begins rolling out of Stevenson siding.

Union Pacific's daily Z-train from Denver, CO to Salt Lake City, UT drifts down Wasatch Grade, a reliable sight every evening on this stretch of track. For another shot of this train, see photo ID... (more)

UP's Borah Local heads eastbound towards Pocatello after being overtaken by the MPDNP, blowing tons of carbon out the stack.

You never know when it could be gone. It's only been a year and a half since this photo was taken on July 9, 2019 in Steilacoom, WA, but so much has changed. In just another six months, the COV... (more)

Is this Kansas or Idaho? Well, I'll just spill the beans - it's Idaho. But it could just as easily be Kansas with a BNSF S-train, as, for some reason, a BNSF ES44C4 leads Union Pacific's Global 4,... (more)

A GE AC4400CW shoving this westbound Union Pacific coal train bound for California is only a few miles into its run up Soldier Summit on the former Denver and Rio Grande Western mainline which, de... (more)

A study in the EMD SD70. Four different SD70 variants (SD70M, SD70ACe, SD70AH, SD70ACe-T4), plus a CSX interloper, feature on the head end of UP's Ogden, UT to Portland, OR manifest, with the snow... (more)

A pair of SD40Ns blow smoke while working the Green River yard as a westbound intermodal prepares to depart.

EIRR's Rupert Job works the yard in northeast Rupert, putting out a hefty amount of smoke behind a pair of ex-Amtrak GP40s. The leader was built for NYC in the 1960s.

Despite the pandemic, the LC&S continues operating, one of the highest standard-gauge railroads operating in the United States at the moment, if not the highest; Leadville sits at roughly 10,150 f... (more)

A weather-worn former GTW GP9, which has worked at this rural elevator for over twenty years without a single alteration to its paint, still carries its long-hood bell, showing that the locomotive... (more)

An eastbound UP manifest rolls past the grain elevator in Mountain Home, ID; the Amalgamated Sugar spur is seen in the foreground.

An eastbound empty coal train rolls through Skykomish, WA, location of one of two "Virtual Railfan" cameras (out of at least 20 the site has) in Washington state, having evidently passed... (more)

A westbound BNSF Z-train with an SD70ACe on point crosses the Columbia River bridge from Pasco into Kennewick, WA as a WDFW police boat crosses under it. Above, the Ed Hendler cable-stayed bridge ... (more)