An SP-decorated ex-CN F-9Au and partner, an ex-C&O GP-30m, get a roll on a half-dozen or so newly loaded grain cars, heading north along the former NP Palouse & Lewiston branch. A spring snow squ... (more)

Two BN geeps lead the WIM Local east at milepost 2 on the WI&M subdivision. The train is still in Washington State, but as it passes the photographer it will enter Idaho.

A pair of classic EMD road switchers cross a timber trestle in the Channelled Scablands of central Washington state.

Eastbound train on the WI&M with 13 empty centerbeam flats for loading at the Bennett Lumber mill in Princeton, ID.

A former Atlantic Coast Line GP-30 is here seen working the Pacific Coast. This is the BNSF Grays Harbor local train, returning from having switched the Hoquiam Plywood mill spur. Behind the tra... (more)

EG-class 3110, a 6000 hp double-ended electric freight motor, leads a train of empty intermodal cars west toward Odense on a sunny summer afternoon in Denmark.

A former Canadian National locomotive, now painted in Southern Pacific's "Black Widow" scheme, begins its climb up Sunshine Hill as it departs Moscow, Idaho. The string of empties it ha... (more)

The brakeman steps off the eastbound WI&M Local to line the switch for dropping three empty hoppers at the Kennedy Ford elevator.

A rebuilt former Great Northern GP-30 wears an updated version of its original colors as it lays over for the night at SIP. When first rebuilt by Burlington Northern, this class of locomotives wa... (more)

Nebraska Central GP-9R, a product of the GTW rebuild program at its Battle Creek shops, switches a customer on sister road Idaho Northern & Pacific line from the UP interchange at La Grande to Elg... (more)

A westbound grain train heads down the Columbia River, past the popular railfan photo location of Thrasher's Curve

The BNSF Byron Turn sits on the Port of Benton owned tracks just south of the Richland airport on an early December morning. The tracks ahead are occupied by a Tri-Cities Railway train switching ... (more)

The Palouse River & Coulee City RR's weekly "Grain Train" arrives at the co-load elevator in Thornton, WA on the former UP "Pleasant Valley" branch in the Palouse country of Ea... (more)

Former ATSF switcher, rebuilt as SSB1200, now works as in-plant switcher at an Agrium fertilizer production facility.

Two UP geeps, one ex-SP and one ex-DRGW, arrive at Plummer Jct. with the tri-weekly turn from Spokane and meets up with its counterpart St. Maries River Railroad train to exchange the days traffic... (more)