Northbound Amtrak #14 - The Coast Starlight is running a couple of hours behind as it heads northbound along Klamath Lake on a clear morning in July. Only a couple of hours previous, passengers we... (more)

The temperature is hovering around 15 degrees the first weekend of December 2005 - here at Chemult, OR the lights from the classic SP signal bridge shining bright into the darkness. The hiss and ... (more)

The first major winter storm of the season has decended upon the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon and the "Oregon Short Line" - UP's main line between the Pacific Northwest and the Midwest. Tr... (more)

A heavy fall fog has dropped down over the yard at Centralia, WA as train M-PASTAC rolls into the yard to set out a bad order car. The switchman on the ground has bundled up and has his lantern on... (more)

A duo of new EMD GT42ACs lead a train of loaded copper flats and empty acid tanks on the climb up Cumbre Pass towards Mejillones.

What are the chances?!While BNSF manifest Pasco - Lake Yard is rolling west into Home Valley, WA in the Gorge while a Union Pacific manifest heads west across the Columbia River in Oregon.

Narrow gauge (meter gauge) FCAB NF210 and 2 others lead a loaded train of sulfuric acid between O'Higgins and Portezuelo on the FCAB mainline near Antofagasta, Chile. The leader was built in 1960 ... (more)

UP Inspection special led by SD70M 4920 is making track speed uphill as it meets a grain empty at Sago, just east of the summit of Telocaset in the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon. The train has ... (more)

A ballast train led by this DRGW Geep is just getting into it, laying down a heavy smoke screen as it gets up to track speed.

At 71mph this Tacoma, WA - Marion, AR K Line train is blasting through Rufus, OR in the Columbia River Gorge. Mt. Hood is in the background.

A steady rain has been falling for the past 18 hours resulting in high water level on the tributary creeks of western washington. This creek is a feeder to Foss River on BNSF's crossing of Stevens... (more)

A major oops during switching here at Livingston on a wye track as two MRL wood chip cars are still on the ground.

After a daylong snow storm, train I-DUSE (Dupo Yard, East St. Louis - Seattle, WA) is plowing snow as it assaults the final climb of the Blue Moutains of Eastern Oregon. A foot and a half of snow ... (more)

The MRL passenger train is almost back to Sandpoint, ID and is running along Lake Pend Oreille outside of Clark Fork, ID

A power shift is in order moving DPU's back to Eugene on the headend of this manifest train as it comes out of the upper horseshoe curve at Fields, OR