Clean new GEVO 7611 pauses on its westbound descent from the Cascade Tunnel. Photo obtained at the cost of snow up to the knees.

The late and most prolific videographer Emery Gulash practically made "splitting the signal masts" shots a personal trademark. Emery would have liked this spot.

Never mind the drizzle, the overcast, the chill autumn air. There's an ore train on the move, and if I can't have Milwaukee's orange and black, I'll take those colors on the Bessemer!

Conrail locomotives running through on the C&O at Plymouth wait to return to their coal train beneath an impending thundershower. The C30-7A, unique to Conrail, was more commonly seen on the B&A ... (more)

Is this like six months for the Mariners and six months for the Seahawks? Or we could just be getting plain ST.

An older generation of photographers decried the lack of steam and smoke from the new diesels -- made it difficult to tell they were moving! Now, with the demise of cabooses and advent of distrib... (more)

Ah, if only the Armour Yellow on this visitor from the West were as pristine as the snow amidst which she waits, ferrying empty autoracks back to Detroit.

Geologically, northwestern Ohio was originally a vast swamp, so it's not surprising to find many of the railroads here up on embankments. Run-through BN power urges this freight on toward Sandusk... (more)

Railroads typically were paralleled by communication and power lines, not always as obviously as here. The high-tension line to the left of the CR freight has long been a distinguishing character... (more)

Redevelopment of the Mukilteo waterfront continues (replacement of old Air Force tank farm with new dock for Boeing and an additional Sounder station) as the trains likewise continue to run.

Shiny new GEVOs just keep on coming. 7545 gets the point of a Boeing delivery about to assault the east slope of the Cascades.

This new signal bridge is one of the infrastructure improvements involved in reconfiguring BNSF's trackage on the east side of Everett, making room for redevelopment projects. So long, Mill Town!

This westbound empty garbage train is just getting underway again after a meet with an eastbound merchandiser. The Columbia Gorge trackage is a major conduit for trash traveling to the landfill a... (more)

Westbound stacks on the CN side of the Thompson river meet a CP counterpart slogging its way eastward (and uphill) on the paralleling tracks on the far side.

Not since Penn Central coal trains wore out the tracks in the 1960s have such moves been common on the Ann Arbor. Makes you wonder why these two westerners are found detouring into Toledo from th... (more)