Exactly 20 years ago this morning, 10/4/1996, I had my first chance to shoot a train in the esteemed Lapwai Canyon of the Camas Prairie Railroad. The previous year my girlfriend and I drove throug... (more)

One of my favorite locations along Union Pacific's 51 mile Cache Valley Branch is this group of bridges found in Franklin, Idaho. Nine sets of wood pilings cross the Cub River on wood decking whil... (more)

A westbound manifest with a couple brand new Boeing 737 fuselages on the head end crosses the Clark Fork in the river's namesake town.

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

A string of autoracks just crossed the Wyoming-Idaho border, and is headed west on this Oregon Short Line route to Montpelier and beyond.

St. Maries River Railroad's Plummer Turn strolls West on the former Milwaukee Transcon, and over the Pedee Creek, the highest operating railroad trestle in Idaho.

On it's way to the Clarkia Reload with a long train of empty log flats, the southbound Branch Train, powered by a pair of GP9's, crosses the wooden trestle over Highway 3 in the little town of San... (more)

An eastbound SPOLAU, pulled by an H1 Dash 9 and a trio of MRL SD45's, crosses the Pack River Fill along the north edge of Lake Pend Oreille amid a North Idaho winter wonderland.

The STMA Switcher rolls downgrade across Bridge EE50 above Chatcolet Lake on its return journey to St. Maries after interchanging with UP at Plummer.

After a layover at Grangeville, Camas Prairie’s regular train with UP 246 in the lead returns to Lewiston, Idaho over Lawyer’s Creek trestle near Craigmont. One of the largest steel structure... (more)

Still some 24 miles from destination Grangeville, CM’s UP 246 East crosses one of dozens of trestles near Ferdinand, Idaho on Aug. 15, 1977.

Camas Prairie’s regular run to Grangeville crosses Hwy. 95 near Nucrag, Idaho as it climbs out of Lapwai canyon on Aug. 15, 1977. The rear of the train can be seen under the 1765, third unit.

Time is growing short for Idaho's "Railroad on Stilts" as Camas Prairie RailNet No. 4 leads a train towards Lewiston, Idaho. Rock Creek Trestle is one of several timber trestles on the r... (more)

Where electrics formerly ruled, Milwaukee Road Extra 21 East was reaching for the sky near Adair, Idaho on July 19, 1978 as it climbed the 1.7% grade toward St. Paul Pass and Montana in the Bitte... (more)

After dropping most of their loaded lumber cars at Reubens, Camas Prairie Railnet #6 and #2 descend Lapwai Canyon enroute to the train's termination at Lewiston ID. The train is on top of the fam... (more)