After a day of disappointment and frustration when I got two flat tires in the Nevada desert and had to hitchhike into Caliente to get a tow truck through AAA, the following day proved to be much ... (more)

The shadows grow long in the desert as seven vintage EMD's lead the Trona Railway's daily train to Searles up the grade past the spectacular rock formations known collectively as the Trona Pinnacl... (more)

The northbound Coast Starlight bursts out of a large rock cut just south of Cougar, California on the long climb to Grass Lake beneath the spectacular backdrop of Mount Shasta. Taken just 20 secon... (more)

The desert, the railroad, and the mountain. Photographs can hardly do justice to the incredible majesty of northern California's Mount Shasta, rising 10,000 feet above the surrounding terrain. Eve... (more)

On an absolutely gorgeous morning in western Montana, a westbound unit grain train cruises through the big curve at Cyr beneath the backdrop of the Bitterroot Mountains.

An eastbound BNSF empty grain train crosses Lake Pend Oreille on the Sandpoint Bridge, as seen from Dog Beach on the east side of town.

The Seattle Monorail's Blue Train departs Seattle Center on a warm spring evening, emerging from the strange man-made tunnel of steel through Seattle's Experience Music Project (EMP) Museum.

Three H3's hustle an empty unit coal train east over the Pack River Fill on the north shore of Lake Pend Oreille during a light December snowfall.

With the formidable Mission Mountains dominating the horizon to the east, four SD40-2's lead the westbound Night Gas along the tranquil waters of the Flathead River in the fading evening light jus... (more)

A westbound manifest begins its journey along Lake Pend Oreille as it leans into a superelevated curve between Clark Fork and Hope on a beautiful summer afternoon.

On a sunny Independence Day afternoon, a westbound manifest rumbles out of the Cabinet Gorge and across a fill between Heron and Colby on MRL's 4th Sub.

Southbound Amtrak Cascades #517 races across the causeway over Chuckanut Bay just south of Bellingham, having just emerged from the tunnel through Clark's Point.

In the final minutes of evening light, a southbound manifest is easing down to the south switch at South Bellingham in preparation for a meet with northbound Amtrak Cascades #516. In the distance,... (more)

On the summer solstice, an unusually long and very late westbound Empire Builder with 8 added cars negotiates the depths of the Kootenai River Gorge between Yakt and Leonia.

The sun has been up a matter of minutes and the shadows are still very long as an eastbound ballast train blasts upgrade past the newly-built siding at Lamphier on the climb up Sprague Hill in the... (more)