Curving along the very picturesque Clark Fork River, MRL's Day Gas Local is just a few seconds away from temporarily disrupting the tranquility of Plains, Montana on a beautiful summer morning.

Gaining altitude by climbing away from the Wenatchee Valley and the Columbia River toward the Columbia River plateau a Burlington Northern grain empty rounds the Trinidad horseshoe curve.

The MRL's Night Gas Local arrives at Thompson Falls, MT to bridge the gap in the Phillips 66 pipeline between Missoula and Thompson Falls, MT.

Curving along the Mighty Columbia River, BNSF revenue freight heads toward Pasco, WA through a moment of brief calmness during an overall stormy winter day.

Burlington Northern train # 699 glides through Mohler, WA enroute to Wenatchee in the dead of winter in semi arid eastern Washington. 53699 or just 699 as it was referred to handled all the local... (more)

Gliding through the S curves of Maryhill, WA another grain train destined for Kalama, WA and export rolls down the Columbia River George. BNSF's predecessor Spokane Portland & Seattle and Union Pa... (more)

After traveling through the beautiful Columbia River George, this westbound merchandise train led by Burlington Northern GP30 # 2219 has just received a fresh crew at Vancouver, WA and is underway... (more)

Whipping up the dusty central Washington landscape on jointed rail, the Coulee City Turn is about to pass under State Highway 2 with about 50 empty grain hoppers for loading in Coulee City on this... (more)

Faded Glory resplendent of former Santa Fe Warbonnet leading a BNSF merchandise freight cruising along the never fading beauty of the Columbia River George just west of Lyle, WA

Heading compass north and timetable east a Southern Pacific manifest freight rolls through Dorris, CA with all EMD power as majestic Mount Shasta looms in the background.

Sounding it's whistle for the road crossing alerting residents of the tiny hamlet of Toston, MRL's "840" local gets underway again after meeting a westbound coal train. This Warren Truss bridge b... (more)

It's only July but the residents of this trackside home already have their Christmas lights hanging in preparation for the holiday season. Meanwhile a Simpson Timber Railroad work train makes a f... (more)

Man has invented many ways to convert the Earth's bounty into electricity. Here we see two, simultaneously juxtaposing each other in the form of a BNSF train hauling coal bound for Roberts Bank, ... (more)

Tied down at Fir on the outskirts of metropolitan Portland, a Union Pacific ore train from Henderson, NV waits its turn to be interchanged to BNSF in Vancouver, WA.

Approaching the East Siding Switch Bingen a BNSF export grain train is hugging the "North Bank Road" of the former Spokane, Portland and Seattle railway deep within the confines of the beautiful C... (more)