"Winter Wonderland" A westbound grain train rolls down the hill on an overcast snowy night.

A glass-surfaced lake creates a spectacular reflection for The Portland Rose, led by Union Pacific's last 4-8-4 in service, #844.

A BNSF Officer Special train heads up the grade at Moody on the Oregon Trunk Subdivision. It would then travel south through Bend, Oregon. The river in the background is the Columbia River, separa... (more)

A Vancouver to Barstow high priority manifest train takes the siding at Kegg. This shot was taken from the fire watch tower at the peak of Orr Mountain in Northern California. Elevation at the sum... (more)

BNSF 6762 leads a long stack train around one half of the Trinidad Loop.

BN 6126, ex-GN 599 is getting a paint job from BN Cascade Green and black to as delivered GN Omaha Orange and Pullman Green. Located in Skykomish, WA to be on display in the Town Center Park.

A rare visitor for the BNSF

Western Rail (WRIX) has bought this ex-Canadian National GMD1 switching locomotive, most likely for scrap or surplus parts. The conductor for this e... (more)

Santa Fe owned two types of Burro cranes, the type 30 and the type 40. Type 30's had the pulleys for the boom arm located on the roof, while the Type 40's, such as this one had pulleys located in ... (more)

An eastbound stack train heads down a straight stretch about two miles away from the crew change point of Wenatchee.

"Made in RSA" The outer panels for the GE Radial Trucks on this Canadian Pacific AC4400CW are forged in the Republic of South Africa. Radial-steering trucks allow the wheels of a truck to b... (more)

The business end of a Track Geometry train, BNSF 87 "Skagit River" measurement car sits quietly on a cold spring night. This car would head west the next morning measuring the track over Stampede ... (more)

BNSF 7025 leads a westbound Z train through our small camping site at Gaynor, WA. A campfire is always necessary when out in the woods.

Sony NEX-5N and a Rokinon 8mm f/2.8 Fisheye len... (more)

BNSF 1023 pulls an eastbound Z train towards Wenatchee, Washington with 10 units in tow.

A large transformer heads south on a TTX 8-axle depressed center flatcar.

A Little Giant Model 64R Trakrane sits in Thrall Siding with a bad order tag attached. The bad order tag states that the equipment shouldn't be moved until repaired. I couldn't figure out what was... (more)