After dumping rain across northern Wyoming and southern Montana all morning, storm clouds are starting to break up as a loaded coal train from Spring Creek Mine struggles to climb the 1% grade out... (more)
The shores of Lake Sacajawea in eastern Washington are dominated by 600-foot-high Palouse Hills, clearly indicative of the effects the Missoula Floods had upon the landscape 13,000-15,000 years ag... (more)
Welcome to the Northwest. On the very day I arrived in Washington after leaving Indiana, I was greeted with murky skies and hours upon hours of driving in the rain. Taking a break from st... (more)
Rain continues to fall upon festively-decorated downtown Portland on the evening of New Year's Day as patrons prepare to board a Hillsboro-bound train at Mall/SW 5th Avenue Station. Following its... (more)
Anatomy of a Meet, Part 1: This is how to run a double-track railroad. The head ends of eastbound S-SEPLPC1-23K and westbound M-SPOPAS1-23A are three miles apart in this view of Providence... (more)