Mt Rainier is fully visible, and while I was thankful for a train I really wanted to capture the Coast Starlight.

Some of the usual BNSF suspects lead an empty grainer east out of Half Moon Yard near the TEMCO export facility.

UP heads south through University Place, WA.

Eastbound stack train in the Blue Mountains of Oregon.

Westbound manifest train west of Maryhill in the Columbia River Gorge.

BNSF 6535 leads a manifest freight west up the old SP&S main at Marshall, WA. This line is normally used for westbounds, but today a Z-train is over taking the manifest on the old NP line which is... (more)

Trains are lined up westbound at Helena, MT depot. These three will wait for the arrival of an eastbound, as well as the departure of a fourth westbound not shown in this grouping. All four westbo... (more)

Along a low, but still turbulent Thompson River is a westbound Canadian National freight east of Morris, British Columbia, on September 27, 2001. Power on the train is a pair of EMD SD50Fs, Nos. 5... (more)

Montana Limestone Company’s EMD SD50F Nos. 5438 and 5404 are backing away from MRC’s limestone loader with a cut of hoppers at Warren, Montana, on June 24, 2016. These former Canadian National... (more)

BNSF 8229 heads north and east towards Whitefish, MT with an empty grain shuttle. The train is about to cross a typical Idaho crossing at West Colburn, just north of Sand Point, ID. A bit unusual ... (more)

Westbound coal train west of Maryhill in the Columbia River Gorge.

Westbound oill train west of Maryhill in the Columbia River Gorge.

NS 1117 leads a BNSF vehicle train along a single track stretch of NP's former mainline between Lakeside Jct. and Cheney, WA. At Cheney it will regain a short section of double track as it heads f... (more)

BNSF 7918 and two CSX units hustle a vehicle train past a Montana Rail Link "Jimbo" tie train parked at Elliston, MT. MRL SD40 264 heads up the latter train and will head west early the ... (more)

BNSF 8229 and a westbound coal train meet at speed on a double track stretch of BNSF's "Funnel" at Algoma, ID. BNSF 8229 has an empty grain train in toe and will meet another westbound t... (more)