A westbound manifest crests the Wasatch Range at, appropriately, Wahsatch, Utah. It's all downhill from here into Ogden. Note the center siding still utilizing jointed track and hand-thrown switch... (more)

A westbound intermodal headed for Tacoma rolls through Cashmere, WA, meeting its eastbound counterpart which is sitting in the siding out of view. See 463245 for how this patchwork paint job came ... (more)

A rare Sunday edition of the Gooding Local heads eastbound past Cole Rd crossing.

CBRL's southbound Hauler rolls across the trestle at Saunders Lake County Park between Hauser and Reedsport, OR as a couple of local fishermen start their day, one from the boat and the other from... (more)

Is this Kansas or Idaho? Well, I'll just spill the beans - it's Idaho. But it could just as easily be Kansas with a BNSF S-train, as, for some reason, a BNSF ES44C4 leads Union Pacific's Global 4,... (more)

A westbound manifest rolls into Nampa with a faded AC4400CW in 25 year old paint on point.

Whose railroad is it anyway? KCS 4607 leads two CP units and a CEFX unit on a westbound UP manifest rolling through Notus, ID. Note the friendly conductor.

Union Pacific's daily Z-train from Denver, CO to Salt Lake City, UT drifts down Wasatch Grade, a reliable sight every evening on this stretch of track. For another shot of this train, see photo ID... (more)

On a somewhat decent 4th of July morning, an eastbound intermodal pulls out of Quartz siding after meeting the westbound ZG1BR, also known by some as the morning UPS train. In the background are t... (more)

A westbound BNSF Z-train with an SD70ACe on point crosses the Columbia River bridge from Pasco into Kennewick, WA as a WDFW police boat crosses under it. Above, the Ed Hendler cable-stayed bridge ... (more)

A loaded ash train heads west through Kuna. The horn on 5475 is absolutely beautiful.

A southbound Canadian Pacific grain train, freshly interchanged to Union Pacific just ten miles to the north at Eastport, rolls along the Moyie River in far northern Idaho. Smoke from the nearby R... (more)

In full dynamic braking mode, UP 8174 leads the eastbound MCONP-25 down the grade east of Encina, OR. 8174's nose still bears the shadow of the "Big Red Express" sticker.

The same eastbound intermodal seen in 714989 rolls under the WY-89 overpass in Evanston, WY. Photo taken from the parking lot of Evanston's Walmart, which is actually a rather decent location to c... (more)

EIRR's Rupert Job works the yard in northeast Rupert, putting out a hefty amount of smoke behind a pair of ex-Amtrak GP40s. The leader was built for NYC in the 1960s.