An eastbound empty coal train rolls through Skykomish, WA, location of one of two "Virtual Railfan" cameras (out of at least 20 the site has) in Washington state, having evidently passed... (more)

An eastbound UP manifest rolls past the grain elevator in Mountain Home, ID; the Amalgamated Sugar spur is seen in the foreground.

A westbound local returns back towards Vancouver, WA after the passage of the eastbound Empire Builder. The leader, a former BN GP38-2, has received the PTC "unibrow" treatment.

Coos Bay Rail Line's southbound Hauler heads for Coos Bay; the hoppers on the head end are headed to add ballast to the currently out-of-service portion of the line between Coos Bay and Coquille, ... (more)

UP 8364 leads a westbound manifest out of Caldwell in the midst of the golden hour.

UP's Borah Local heads eastbound towards Pocatello after being overtaken by the MPDNP, blowing tons of carbon out the stack.

A GE AC4400CW shoving this westbound Union Pacific coal train bound for California is only a few miles into its run up Soldier Summit on the former Denver and Rio Grande Western mainline which, de... (more)

The money shot at Winona came to fruition on my first visit, as an eastbound intermodal of unknown symbol drifts downhill after a rolling meet with a westbound.

UP 8781 leads an eastbound intermodal out of the Snake River Canyon.

On a brisk October morning in the upper reaches of Echo Canyon, an eastbound intermodal train bound for Chicago rolls under the old US Route 30 overpass at Emory, about to take the upper track whe... (more)

On a cool morning in Sandpoint, Idaho, many birds are already out and encircling the marina by air as an empty eastbound grain train crosses the bridge.

Shortly after a maintenance window in the area lifted, a westbound loaded ethanol train drifts downgrade through Echo, past its iconic rock outcrop. As this train approached the crossing - which i... (more)

A westbound manifest digs its heels into the grade leading up towards Encina, OR on a cool fall day, as it climbs out of the Burnt River Canyon.

Quite possibly the longest distance manifest on the UP system, a manifest bound from CORP in Eugene, OR to Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska, begins ascending the grade between Baker City and ... (more)

"Building Will Not Clear Man On Car", the sign at the side of Old U.S. 95 reads, on a spur track leading into a local industry in Naples, Idaho, as a hotshot Chicago-Portland Z train fli... (more)