A westbound unit grain train heads along the shores of Lake Pend Oreille near Trestle Creek, Idaho at the end of a late winter day.
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.
On the afternoon of Independence Day, the Southern Railway heritage unit leads a westbound Galesburg to Pasco manifest past the cantilever at the east switch of Hope.
Two GE's lead a westbound unit coal train along the blue waters of Lake Pend Oreille a few miles west of Hope, Idaho in beautiful evening light. In the distance is Warren Island, the largest of se... (more)
With the sun getting low in the sky to the west on a mid-September evening, an eastbound empty grain train sprints across the Pack River Fill on the northern edge of Lake Pend Oreille, just a few ... (more)
On an incredibly still spring morning, an eastbound BNSF manifest freight crosses the Pack River Fill just west of Hope, Idaho, on the morning of May 19, 2011. This nearly mile long fill on Montan... (more)
An eastbound BNSF freight rolls along a placid bay on Lake Pend Oreille as a worker does some late season maintenance to a house boat.
BNSF 5073 leads a westbound train through Hope, ID on the Montana Rail Link. Following the locomotives are three Boeing 737 fuselages destined to Renton, WA. The aircraft originated in Wichita, KS... (more)
BNSF 5808 and mate are DPUs on an eastbound coal empties unit train from Roberts Bank, BC headed back to the Powder River Basin in Wyoming. The train is on the Montana Rail Link which is used from... (more)
MRL 328 makes a rare appearance on the west end of the Montana Rail Link towing a work train out to Kootenai, ID near Sand Point for some fall track work.
A detouring Pasco to Galesburg freight rolls across the Pack River fill west of Hope, Idaho. This train and quite a few others detoured on the Montana Rail Link during May 2011, because of a soft ... (more)
The Montana Rockies Railtours tourist train heads east along the shores of Lake Pend Oreille on one of its final runs.