Empty garbage stacks along the Columbia River moving westbound from Roosevelt, approaching Home Valley.

Afternoon Zee westbound to Portland rounding the base of Wind Mountain, approaching Home Valley.

Westbound traversing the Rowland Lake causeway.

A short-length westbound manifest skirts by the vineyards below the Maryhill Winery. Train ID was unknown at press time, but may be something like a PASTAC. Cliffs and rocks courtesy of "Indeclin... (more)

Oil train, westbound about to head underneath the 7th Street bridge. I wanted to try a different angle from the typical overhead shot.

Empty oil cans returning eastbound, ascending Stevens Pass. This location, just east of the old GN Alpine station site, is known as "Bonneville Cut" owing to the overhead power lines and impressi... (more)

The daily westbound Spokane - Everett mixed freight passes the old GN signal bridge, and is within three miles of the Cascade summit and tunnel.

A brisk fall afternoon in Washington State's Cascade Mountains, vine maples and aspens have been turning to paint a colorful scene along Nason Creek. And to top it off was this westbound moving t... (more)

Pulling down the grade, leaving the Dayton Dry Sort behind and returning eastbound to town in the morning. A cool fog layer has lifted, allowing some colorful lighting all around! Note the turno... (more)

The calendar said that summer hadn't ended yet, but fall has arrived in the Oregon Cascade Mountains where the leaves are turning and the morning fog has moistened the landscape. At 11:33 in the m... (more)

Bare table, south bound heading over the Cascade Crossing just south of Cruzatte in an area that the railroad used to place mud fill from the great slide of the winter of 2008, it once was a hole ... (more)

A view across the valley to Bunchgrass Ridge on a late summer afternoon in the Oregon Cascades as a northbound Zee passes through the scene.

Northbound and down, #8036 moves its intermodal through one of the many snow sheds on the side of the mountains above the Upper Willamette Valley. Some markings on the inside wall are visible thr... (more)

Fog was hanging in thick through the morning as the Eugene Hauler moved up the hill above Frazier (Oregon), heading into one of the many snow/rock sheds at 548.9 on the UP Cascade Sub 9/16/2013 10... (more)

Saturday was a troublesome day for train traffic up on the mountain. Earlier, a southbound (uphill) Q train stalled on the mainline at this location due to the failure of one of its DPUs. It too... (more)