I was standin' on a corner (not THE corner, though I did visit that too) in Winslow, Arizona on the Route 66 overpass at the west end of town, as, in blistering (for this Idaho girl) 105 degree he... (more)

A UTA train pulls into the station. I wish I knew it at the time, but just 10 days earlier, the famous UP 4014 came through town.

Canadian Pacific 6644, a former SD9043MAC rebuilt into an SD70ACU and painted to commemorate the D-Day landings of June 6th, 1944, leads a southbound manifest into Bonners Ferry, ID across the Koo... (more)

Having only been in Oregon for a few minutes, Amtrak 14 races along at track speed headed for its station stop in Klamath Falls with a pair of remarkably clean P42DC units. Also worth noting - 140... (more)

An ET44AC leads a somewhat rare (for 2019) shield logo AC44 and a newer SD70ACe, elephant style, into La Grande. The brick platform of the station is well maintained.

Three BNSF Dash-9s lead a westbound loaded coal train up the beginning of the climb towards Mullan Pass with downtown Helena in the background. A four pack of MRL SD70ACes acting as mid-train help... (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)

UP's Pocatello to Eastport manifest departs Nampa, ahead of an incoming storm, the third to hit the area in the past three days. A pair of CP GEs bracket a CN unit, showing that the two Canadian r... (more)

Oregon Eastern recently acquired a former Hudson Bay Railway GP39-3 (ex-SP GP35) from Western Rail, Inc. in exchange for three of their four GP7s - the fourth was retained as backup power for when... (more)

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)

"I don't like sand." But on the coast, it's just a fact of life. The northbound Coos Bay Hauler, sporting just a single MP15DC today, rolls north towards Hauser along the famous Orego... (more)

UP 844 leads the Boise Turn westbound near Glenns Ferry.

Shining in the morning light, AMTK 184, the Phase IV heritage unit, leads AMTK 27, the Portland section of the Empire Builder, westbound just outside Lyle, WA.

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)

The old and new faces of EMD. A pair of SD40-2s working a yard job, relegated to these duties, pull past a comparatively new SD70ACe, a 2016 graduate of the storied locomotive builder, now working... (more)