First light on a spring morning finds an empty grain train stretched out along the namesake of BNSF's Lakeside Sub, Sprague Lake, as little cotton ball-like puffs of mist start to burn off under t... (more)

Late on a hot summer morning, a long stack train out of the Port of Seattle grinds up the 1% grade through Trinidad. Towering in the distance are the cliffs of Cape Horn (yes, there are twomore)

Late on a very hot summer afternoon, an eastbound loaded coal train is in the charge of a half-dozen big GEs working hard up the 1% grade out of Woodside. The massive Book Cliffs loom in the dist... (more)

Into the sunset... In more ways than one. First, the obvious: D&H 7309 trundles into a summer evening's sunset with a single car destined for Northeast Industrial Park in Guilderland Cente... (more)

A fine winter morning finds Albany Port Railroad #13, "The Don Z," parked along Smith Boulevard near the railroad's offices. The APD is jointly owned by CSX and CPR and exists solely to serve rai... (more)

Up, up and away! Spooked by the approaching grain shuttle, a heron takes flight away from its hunting grounds along the Palouse River.

Mornings in the Palouse are well-known for the interplay of light and shadow amongst the hills that so readily identify the region. Incomprehensibly vast acreages of cultivated fields supply the ... (more)

Breakfast of champions: Engineer Larry concentrates on the picture in the mirror as he runs long hood forward south towards Willada. His preferred snack of chips and Tabasco, visible perc... (more)

At the end of a foreshortened day the PCC job with only nine cars from Winona rolls through Hooper, where the striped field in the foreground has been cultivated to to match the arc of both the PC... (more)

Two ancient EMDs smoke it up as they work hard to drag a modern-era empty unit grain train up the 1.67% grade at MP 34 on the W&I's mainline through the Palouse region. It certainly was strange s... (more)

A pack of cattle flee away from the tracks as GP30 3004, wearing the stylized PCC "graffiti" logo over old Ohio Central colors, and GP35 3651 in actual PCC paint trundle past the two elevators in ... (more)

After arriving at Endicott the day before with the 3651 in the lead, PCC engineer Larry wanted to make the morning run to Mockonema with 3004 on the point. Once the 3651 had been set over to the ... (more)

Rumors of its demise have been mildly exaggerated! Following the recent decision to route through traffic away from the Yakima Valley and Stampede Subs, BNSF planned a series of Electronic... (more)

Loaded grain train G-CSNINB9-02H is strung out through the Upper Canyon of the Yakima River, highlighted by this pair of long 10-degree curves at MP 12. The two units shown here, spliced in at mi... (more)

In the glow of the very last light of a hazy spring evening, a BNSF manifest works southward along Puget Sound just south of the South South Bellingham control point. This train originated in Edm... (more)