Three-to-four and this coming-off-the-Columbia-Sub stack and its hangin-ten-high crew wait for a favorable approach at Latah Junction as the clouds drift swift overhead on a quickening breeze and ... (more)

"Night Moves"

“Sippy Cup Takes the Hill” ♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤ Sippy Cup?! You say “Sippy what?!�... (more)

“Ex Oriente Lux : Govan Crepusculum” ~ Heaven’s peaceful eye, rising, faithfully, effortlessly, paints its ephemeral pastel chef d’oeuvre as wispy clouds float across its crepuscular creat... (more)

“Force Majeure” ~ Hartline, Washington: before breakfast-o’clock in the midst of temperatures tumbling into inhumane depths; when one can scarcely feel his digits ditch lights reach into the... (more)

“Snake Crossing” ♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤ We had actionable intel that a northbound was ... (more)

"Magellan" ~ Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan must have relied heavily on his cosmographer and sextant when he set out on the “Peaceful Sea” in search of fame and fortune while finding a... (more)

“Atherosclerosis” ~ If there ever were a case of atherosclerosis in BNSF’s vast cardiovascular rail system, the famed infamous “Funnel,” so famously coined by my friend Bruce Kelly so ma... (more)

“Purple Haze” ~ Mused Jimi Hendrix - an avid science fiction fan - whilst being interviewed: “You know the song … It was about going through this land. This mythical [land] … because tha... (more)

"Headin' back for more..." ~ Evenin’ comin’ down off the Columbia River Sub over Latah Bridge and Junction – empty – headin’ back for more, on its way back to Powder River coal mines: Bl... (more)

“Kootenai Zag-Zig” ~ Yup. I do manage to get out in “ideal” weather conditions from time-to-time as on this splendid May day this year. Looking north, I’m poised on a 400-foot east bank ... (more)

“Boiling heat, summer stench…” ~ Burning. Time. Land. Light. ¶ EWG is on the move and hogger Zach Hastings has a firm set applied; pinching 456 wheels wanting to roll on half as many axles.... (more)

“Cumulonimbus Capillatus Incus” ~ Cum-u-what? Yeah, that’s Greek, I mean Latin for the ominous anvil cloud formation that hangs over the elevations of the pristine-pine-covered Coeur d’Ale... (more)

“Harm’s Way to Harvest” ~ One of 154,204 G506 World War II era 235-ci, 83-hp, 1-1/2 ton, 4x4, standard cargo/troop transports built by Chevy in Pontiac, Michigan languishes in the spring sun... (more)

“Close Encounters” ~ Eerily silent – the florescent landing lights and glow of what at first glance appears to be an alien craft counting down to liftoff thrusting its rocket, spear-like plu... (more)