BNSF 8026 and 3874 take advantage of the double track on the "Funnel" allowing 3874's grain train to overtake 8026's. Grain train activity appeared to be quite heavy in the Pacific North... (more)

WAMX 3922 at Idaho Falls.

BNSF westbound grain train snakes through Hope,ID

Under threatening sky's, an eastbound BNSF Mixed Manifest crosses the causeway on an arm of Lake Pend Oreille near Sandpoint ID

An eastbound coal train finally has the light out of East Algoma after waiting for a fleet of westbounds to cross the Lake Pend Oreille trestle. The head end is a little over half way across the s... (more)

St. Maries yard
After switching the PotlatchDeltic mill on the west side of town, St. Maries River Railroad SW1200 No. 501 rolls slowly through the empty yard at St. Maries on the way b... (more)

A southbound 9-car Union Pacific local crosses the District 2 Road grade crossing north of Bonners Ferry, Idaho, on July 14, 2011.

The Union Pacific Wedge Plow 900000 sits along a spur track at Ririe, Idaho along a former Union Pacific Branch, now part of Watco. The plow seems to have not seen service in quite sometime.... ... (more)

BNSF 8119 rolls across Deep Creek with a westbound train just after exiting a short tunnel near Burns, OR on the former GN mainline between Sandpoint, ID and Bonner's Ferry.

A wesbound BN train splits the semaphores on the fill just east of Sandpoint, ID at dusk.

Union Pacific train OBAGR descends desolate Reverse Hill with empty soda ash cars for Western Wyoming. The alignment and double track here is the result of a 1920's line change that started near t... (more)

If you stay on the freeway you would never now this area existed. Between Inkom and McCammon, Idaho. The old highway and railroad drop through a canyon lined with lava rock with the Portnuef river... (more)

ES44AC 8022 and 8053. Roll through McCammon, Idaho.

ES44AC's 8022 and 8053 round the corner at Topaz, Idaho to go under the highway bridge.

The calm of the Idaho pine forests are momentaily distrubed by the St. Maries River Railroad's Plummer turn. The train is lead by a pair of the railroads GP9s as they trundle across the massive Pe... (more)