PSAP's Aberdeen Turn with UP run-through power crosses over the Satsop River at Satsop,WA 6/26/12

Amtrak train #14, the "Coast Starlight", passes the golf course at Chambers Bay as it skirts along the Puget Sound 6/27/12. Mt. Rainier provides the background on this rare sunny June day in Weste... (more)

5 UP motors lead the PSAP Aberdeen Turn westbound as it approaches Montesano,WA 6/26/12. UP and BNSF run-through power has become more common as of late on the PSAP.

3 UP SD70M's lead a garbage train southbound along Puget Sound at Ketron,WA 6/27/12. A special thank you to Dale Skyllingstad for taking us out on his boat to get this and other shots from Puget ... (more)

Clouds continue to build out in front of a complex of thunderstorms as the ultra hot Willow Springs,IL-North Bay,CA Z train races west away from the storms on 7/5/12. This complex of storms would ... (more)

A thunderstorm in its early stages builds behind a BNSF westbound manifest at Milan, NM 7/9/12.

The intention of this photo was to get the crossing gates coming up and the EOT blinking as the 211 local headed west after wyeing his train at Baca. However with a "strike of luck", a bright clou... (more)

The 211 local heads east on Main 1 towards the Continental Divide 7/16/12. If the train woud have arrived 45 seconds sooner, it would have been fully sunlit, but clouds from monsoonal thunderstorm... (more)

Coils and cars: A westbound vehicle train from Birmingham,AL to San Bernardino,CA with a block of steel coil cars on the head end proceeds west at Perea,NM after a truck that was stuck on the ROW ... (more)

The maiden run ES44C4's head west through Perea,NM with about 5 minutes of sunlight left on 7/16/12. 1 minute before the train showed up, the sun was hiding behind a cloud.

The sun has just dipped below a cloud as the 3 maiden run ES44C4's head downhill on Main 2 at Coolidge,NM 7/16/12

New Mexico monsoon season is upon us! 3 brand new BNSF ES44C4's(BNSF 7057, 7056, 7053) on their maiden run west on the BNSF passes through a sun break while storm clouds from a complex of thunders... (more)

An ex-Santa Fe GP39-2 and ex-BN GP39M bracket 4 BNSF GP60B's as the Chewelah,WA-Spokane,WA manifest freight heads south near Deer Park, WA 6/23/12. This train was 99 cars long(mostly loads) and wa... (more)

2 UP SD9043MAC's lead a Canpotex Potash train bound for export at Portland, OR across the huge steel bridge over the Snake River at Lyons Ferry,WA 10 minutes after sunset on 6/21/12. This is locat... (more)

UP 6021 leads a Soda Ash train into the siding at North Powder, OR 6/21/12