As ominous clouds build to the east, a shiny H1 Dash 9 leads a colorful stack train through a seemingly endless succession of curves as it drops down the grade between Bluestem and Lamona in the w... (more)

After making a pickup at Wallula that nearly tripled its train length, the southbound Spokane to Hinkle manifest navigates the reverse curves along the Columbia River between Wallula and Juniper, ... (more)

The sun has been up a matter of minutes and the shadows are still very long as an eastbound ballast train blasts upgrade past the newly-built siding at Lamphier on the climb up Sprague Hill in the... (more)

On an absolutely gorgeous morning in western Montana, a westbound unit grain train cruises through the big curve at Cyr beneath the backdrop of the Bitterroot Mountains.

With fall colors just barely beginning to show in the bushes, a single H3 Dash 9 leads a westbound manifest off of MRL upgrade into the big sand cut at Granite on BNSF's Funnel, the mainline betwe... (more)

The westbound Paradise Local rumbles downriver toward its home base with a string of empty lumber cars, passing some small rapids on the Clark Fork River near Quinns.

The daily westbound SPOEVE, the only manifest that regularly runs over the Spokane to Everett ex-GN mainline, is just a few miles into the long descent down Trinidad Hill as it passes "The Cr... (more)

In a scene normally traversed at night and with mountains reminiscent of Glacier Park hundreds of miles to the north, a late-running California Zephyr is seen racing across the high desert on a pe... (more)

A colorful stack train climbs northward through the desolate lava fields between Hotlum and Andesite on the western flank of Mount Shasta. Lake Shastina is visible in the distance to the upper rig... (more)

Two GE's lead a westbound unit coal train along the blue waters of Lake Pend Oreille a few miles west of Hope, Idaho in beautiful evening light. In the distance is Warren Island, the largest of se... (more)

Amid hillsides clothed in vibrant springtime grasses, the final rays of sunlight for this day shine down through the cliffs, illuminating the green hills lining the Snake River. After a breezy aft... (more)

On a warm summer morning, a colorful eastbound stack train cruises along the Meadow Valley Wash approaching the upper end of Rainbow Canyon between Etna and Caliente on UP's remote Caliente Subdiv... (more)

As the last minutes of sunlight shine into the Kootenai River Gorge, the DPU's on a heavy unit train of Bakken crude oil trail the consist of oil tank cars westward beneath the steep slopes and ro... (more)

The peace and tranquility of a summer afternoon is broken by the arrival of a bright blue CEFX leaser leading a southbound manifest past one of several ponds in the woods south of the Pend Oreille... (more)

A CREX leaser leads an eastbound freight up the Columbia River on a gorgeous spring morning with a very snowy Mount Hood rising high above to the west.