A perfect summer day in the Inland Northwest is just getting underway as the Pend Oreille Valley Railroad's only GP9 crosses the wooden trestle over Kent Creek south of Dalkena with a short train ... (more)

An eastbound Z train led by four shiny Evolution Series GE's catches some of the last sunlight in the Kootenai Gorge as it cruises upriver on the ex-GN water-grade route through the mountains of t... (more)

Tier 4 on the point! A squeaky clean GE Tier 4 ET44C4 leads an empty grain train across Sand Creek in Sandpoint, Idaho on a beautiful fall day in the Pacific Northwest. Quite fittingly, the... (more)

A unit grain train rolls off the bridge over Lake Pend Oreille and through the S-curve at East Algoma on a beautiful autumn day.

A westbound stack train emerges from the depths of the Kootenai River Gorge just east of Crossport, ID on a beautiful autumn afternoon.

Viewed from my lonely rock outcropping, a single DPU trails a heavy K-Line stack train up the remote Meacham Creek Canyon, located on the west slope of the Blue Mountains between Camp and Huron. T... (more)

UP's Plummer Turn skirts the northern edge of the Palouse farmlands near Freeman on its journey back to Spokane. The train is composed of 23 loads from the St. Maries River Railroad and 2 loads fr... (more)

On a crisp spring morning, a westbound unit grain train tiptoes across the Clark Fork River west of Colby with the Cabinet Mountains behind.

During a brief break of sunlight on a mostly cloudy day, a nice and clean SD70ACe is seen bringing up the rear of a heavy lumber freight as it drops out of the Blue Mountains along the Grande Rond... (more)

A grab-bag of BNSF power hustles an eastbound manifest across the Pack River Fill on the north shore of Lake Pend Oreille, just a few miles into their long trek over MRL's 4th Sub.

The sun is just off the horizon on a cool August morning as a westbound K train slowly winds its way through the twisting reverse curves above Pyles Creek on the steep descent of Telocaset Hill in... (more)

Early on a June morning, a southbound manifest curves out along one of many lava flows in the area between Andesite and Hotlum, with Mount Shasta, the source of the lava, dominating the background... (more)

On a windy spring morning, Amtrak's westbound Empire Builder eases around the curve approaching the west switch of Quincy, while an eastbound stack train has just cleared into the siding, making f... (more)

After waiting short of the crossovers here until a fueling track was ready at Hauser Yard, BNSF 7432 East is just getting pulling over the crest at Hauser Junction right as the sky is breaking, pr... (more)

After a meet with an empty potash, a southbound UP grain train from the CP interchange at Eastport, ID/Kingsgate, BC tiptoes across the Sand Creek bridge in Sandpoint amid golden aspen and cottonw... (more)