While driving through the tiny town of Plummer, Idaho today, I noticed that the St. Maries River Railroad's Switcher was in town, but that Union Pacific's Plummer Turn had not arrived yet (the two... (more)

Eastern Idaho Railroad's local out of Rupert for Jerome is just a few miles east of Jerome and moving at a pretty good clip despite the lack of a full ballast shoulder.

A BN board of director's special is running along US Highway 2 somewhere between Bonners Ferry and Sandpoint on the afternoon of October 1, 1995.

Five southbound Union Pacific SD40-2's at Idaho Falls, Idaho on July 18, 1984

The first sunlight of the day illuminates the small town of Spencer, ID as the MSBPC 09 charges through after coming down from Monida Pass.

An eastbound Union Pacific potash train crosses the Pend Oreille River Bridge just west of Dover, Idaho, on October 12, 2017. Leading the empty Canpotex hoppers toward a connection with Canadian P... (more)

A ratty-looking UP SD60 still in original paint and its second number sits by the terminal in Nampa. If you look really closely, you can see the old number, which started with "6", showi... (more)

The MSBPC 09 rounds its way through an S-curve over the open plains of Eastern Idaho on the Montana Subdivision near Dubois, Idaho.

UP 3020 SD70ACe-T4 trails on the back of the MSBPC 09 as it makes its way over the Snake River in Idaho Falls, Idaho.

UP 8745 makes its way out of Monida Pass at Spencer, Idaho. Soon the train will exit the mountainous terrain and keep making its way south over the open plains of East Idaho.

Rolling through a snow-covered mountain scene on Union Pacific’s Pocatello Subdivision at Topaz, Idaho, is a westbound grain train on January 20, 2013.

UP 8745 snakes its way through a canyon at the west end of Monida Pass.

A trio of SD70ACe's lead the MSBPC 09 on a rarely seen daylight run through Monida Pass on the UP Montana Subdivision near Spencer, Idaho.

While a nice storm cell approaches, the Plummer Turn waits for the UP to show up after they dropped their loads at the interchange.The track to the right was the mainline of the Milwaukee Road's P... (more)

While slowly crossing the massive bridge over Lake Benewah, which interrupts the thick pine forests along the route, you'll notice the conductor has come out and is talking with the fisherman belo... (more)