As the early morning sunlight of an early summer day begins to shine into the winding Palouse River Canyon, a northbound empty grain train emerges from Tunnel 14 and passes along one of many narro... (more)

Two weeks after my 15th birthday, at the end of one of the busiest days I have seen on the Ayer Sub, the third loaded grain train of the day crosses the massive Joso Bridge over the Snake River, a... (more)

A Portland-bound Q train approaches the western end of the Kootenai River Gorge just east of Crossport on a warm spring afternoon as the mountains to the east in Montana remain capped with snow fr... (more)

After meeting a northbound M-HKETB at Joso siding, an 18,000 ton potash train rumbles slowly across the massive Joso Bridge in southeast Washington, soaring nearly 200 feet above the Snake River.

Several minutes after the sun had set, the sky was still alive with color above Lake Pend Oreille as a westbound manifest rolled across the famous bridge over the lake.

On a beautiful August evening, a monster-sized stack train drops downgrade through some fantastic Sierra Nevada scenery at Yuba Gap, passing through Tunnels 36 and 35. This train lost power from t... (more)

It's called Big Sky Country for a reason! It looks to be the start of a beautiful summer day on MRL's 4th Subdivision as a westbound Roberts Bank-bound unit coal train cruises through the S-curves... (more)

The entirety of a massive 129-car unit Canpotex potash train can be seen as the train heads south down the scenic Palouse River Canyon at Park. The two DPU's can be seen in the distance.

The Aurora Borealis! For years I've waited to see it, spending hours on "Aurora tracking" websites in hopes of there being an Aurora storm at the right time and with clear skies. Finally, o... (more)

Not your everyday helper setup! After a long struggle up the grade from Hilgard, stalling out once below Motanic, getting going again at a 10 MPH grind, the crew of the westbound stack trai... (more)

On a windy but sunny early spring day in the Pacific Northwest, CP's southbound "Royal Canadian Pacific" consist, pulled by a matching A-B-A set of F-units, soars high above the Snake Ri... (more)

Following a September with record rainfall for the region, October of 2016 brought some spectacular fall colors to my home turf. Eager for some sightseeing, my girlfriend and I ventured north to m... (more)

As the first golden rays of sun begin shining through the treetops, a westbound unit grain train races across the massive fill and into the rock cut at Granite, Idaho on "The Funnel". So... (more)

CP 9713, one of the locomotives that has been used on the Holiday Train, leads a long southbound manifest across Joso Bridge on a windy spring afternoon.

Last Light. The shadows are growing long as a short northbound manifest blasts up the final miles of the grade between Cougar and Grass Lake in the final minutes before the sun drops below ... (more)