A meet of epic proportions! BNSF 5427 meets UP 844 and SP 4449 with the steam spectacular. And yes, the rumors are true, I did use a step ladder to take this picture. Almost got blown over in th... (more)

A post card shot. BNSF 5003 dynamics down the hill and gets ready to pass BNSF 1069 which is waiting in the hole at Merritt. As a bonus, the engineer toots his horn many times to the photographers... (more)

Sitting, still in disrepair and waiting for duty, 6311 keeps guard outside the old elevators in Rosalia. The setting sun, light pollution from nearby Spokane, and a single mercury vapour light pro... (more)

A broken drawbar is the least of the W&Is problems at the moment.

Hot rail! Fixing a pull-a-part on continuous weld rail requires a few tools and a lot of fire.

Its a quiet night on Stevens Pass. No trains, no snow falling, no sounds. The only thing that breaks the eery silence is a little ballast regulator-turned-snow-plow as it struggles to move back th... (more)

A museum piece. Red signals barely visible against the red Eastern Washington sky. For the engineer of BNSF 7531, reds, blues, and blacks are broken from the light of an oncoming manifest w... (more)

A new 737-800/900 fuselage is being transported to the Boeing plant in Renton. It has come all the way from Kansas and is on the home stretch as it nears the top of Stevens Pass.

The shortest Amtrak Cascads trainset, made by Talgo in Spain, waits to someday be used in service. The purpose of this trainset is for spare parts, as it includes a Bistro, baggage, and generator... (more)

8 big ones on the ground. A few thousand cubic feet of wheat spilled. Track ruined (the CWR is sheared in two different places, and they weren't welds!). No one hurt. A bad flange on a BNSF hopper... (more)

Odd to see so many CP units in Sandpoints little UP yard linking the UP to the BNSF and MRL. But look at this picture. Do you notice anything very, very wrong? (Don't point out whats actual... (more)

To quote an engineer: "Ive heard of ripping a drawbar before, but never I have never heard of ripping the whole a*s off before!" 2703 was pulling up Stevens Pass when it started to surge then the... (more)

Back on the Palouse, with no light rail or streetcars for me to photograph, I guess it's time to head out from under the wire back into diesel country *sigh*. Working around Marshall means two dif... (more)

Wind energy: power for a new tomorrow.

This could easily be 1965 with that truck. The Inland Empire Rail Historical Society's Northern Pacific F-unit days are numbered in the Spokane Fairgrounds. Washington & Idaho Railway is trying to... (more)