The spout hanging down from above rarely, if ever, loads rail cars anymore, but the elevator at Winona, Washington, on the west edge of the Palouse region is still a hub of activity for local farm... (more)

A manned signal box, a manual level crossing, armstrong levers, and semaphores -- it was a long way for this American lad of Irish descent to get to Tipperary, but it was absolutely worth the jour... (more)

Early on a sunny summer morning, eastbound S-SEACHC1-07A is nearing the end of its climb from the bank of the Columbia River to the top of the plateau at Quincy. The signals the head end has just... (more)

Deseret Power Railway Units 1, 2 and 3 sweep past acres of sage brush and exposed outcrops at 27 Mile, about halfway between the Utah border and Deseret Power Plant.

One of the few level ar... (more)

On a quiet Sunday in the heart of Washington's Palouse region, PCC 2353 and BAR 360 are parked at the grain elevator at Sunset, near the end of the PCC's PV Sub. In two days, a PCC crew will take... (more)

A quiet morning at Potlatch: With nothing to do while the St. Maries River Railroad crew shuffles around empty log cars nearby, STMA 997 basks in the sun on the Potlatch mill lead. This old warri... (more)

Surplus: Rust streaks adorn the flank of Amtrak 2131, one of power cars on the only RTL-II Turboliner set in existence, which for years has been slowly crumbling behind the former Super St... (more)

A downtown-bound streetcar hums through the Westlake & Thomas intersection during a summer evening's "blue hour." Standing tall against the darkening sky is the most distinctive structure in Seat... (more)

Goodnight, little SLUT: On a warm summer night in Seattle's South Lake Union district, the orange streetcar has laid down its pantograph and gone to sleep at the SLUT Operations & Maintenan... (more)

On this gorgeous summer day, the STMA crew's last chore before heading to Plummer was to hop across the river to the Stimson mill and pick up a few loaded (and one empty) centerbeam flats. The tr... (more)

On a winter morning with temps hovering right at the freezing mark and fog spread across the entire Puget Sound region, I decided to try my luck at driving an hour and a half from home to the shor... (more)

Eastbound CN manifest 416 follows the Thompson River upstream through the twists of Black Canyon between Ashcroft and Coho, BC. This train was one of the longest I have ever seen; my companion fo... (more)

Peek-a-boo! The smiley face scratched into the grime on the nose door of BNSF 1090 expresses its relief at seeing sunlight once again following a 7.8-mile journey through the darkness of Cascade ... (more)

Traffic jam on Logan Hill: A gloomy winter sunrise finds the three tracks at the summit of Logan Hill jammed with coal trains, while a BNSF load in the distance drops down towards Bill. Th... (more)

Tucked away at Blue Mountain Energy's Deserado Mine, the east end of the Deseret Power Railway, is this old speeder used by maintenance-of-way forces. The logo on the flank remains that of Wes... (more)