And here we see Amtrak's Coast Starlight in its natural habitat: a late summer evening, the mountains shrouded in ocean mist, seagulls peacefully gliding along, and a lone individual walking in th... (more)

MRL's Day Gas cruises eastward along the Flathead River between Paradise and Perma beneath impressive rocky cliffs typical of this region of Montana.

BNSF's Bend Local is just beginning its return trip to Bend as it soars high above Willow Creek on the massive steel trestle in Madras, Oregon on a warm summer evening.

As the larch burn bright orange on the mountain slopes behind, an empty Boardman coal train slowly approaches the crest of Evaro Hill. The engineer is already easing off on the throttle in prepara... (more)

A short northbound manifest climbs the grade through Hotlum siding on a warm summer morning on UP's Black Butte Sub.

An eastbound vehicle train wraps around the apex of Trinidad Loop as it climbs the long 1% grade from the Columbia River to Quincy in central Washington.

A nice way to start the morning! After a drive out into the desert south of Elgin to pick up the wheel I ditched the day before when I got two flat tires, I made it back down into Rainbow Canyon j... (more)

The Great Northwest Railroad's Ayer Turn cruises west down the Snake River on a hot summer afternoon between Lewiston and Wawawai.

The morning sun has just started shining into the remote Kootenai River Gorge as a westbound manifest twists along the bottom of the canyon between Yakt and Leonia, with about three mile to go unt... (more)

The marshes at the mouth of the Clark Fork River are in a gradual period of transition from winter to spring as BNSF 6823 leads a westbound grain train out across the causeway leading towards Lake... (more)

After switching the gasoline facility at Pipeline, just east of Thompson Falls, MRL's Night Gas highballs town at sunset and begins its journey back to Missoula.

Passing beneath Highway 95, an eastbound Q train eases down the grade into Naples in preparation for a meet with a westbound manifest amidst a snowy North Idaho landscape.

Spring has just arrived in the Idaho Panhandle as an eastbound empty coal train approaches the east switch of Colby at the west end of the Cabinet Gorge. In the distance can be seen the Selkirk Mo... (more)

BNSF 4444 leads a westbound stack train off the big fill and into the rock cut at Granite.

A westbound manifest begins its journey along Lake Pend Oreille as it leans into a superelevated curve between Clark Fork and Hope on a beautiful summer afternoon.