Climbing St. Paul Pass east of Avery

CP 7056 on the H-PASGFD4-15A at Sandpoint,Id

St. Maries River Railroad's "Plummer Turn" heads for the UP interchange at Plummer, ID seen here crossing the Benewah Lake Trestle.

The rear motor on the Plummer Turn shoves the train out of the St Joe River Valley.

Sort of a typical view of an early post mega-merger power lineup and scene of the railroad crossing immense Lake Pend Oreille. A fairly new Heritage 1 Dash9 leads predecessor roads' power as well ... (more)

Canadian Pacific 6644, a former SD9043MAC rebuilt into an SD70ACU and painted to commemorate the D-Day landings of June 6th, 1944, leads a southbound manifest into Bonners Ferry, ID across the Koo... (more)

The Pend Orielle (pronounced "pon-der-ay") 3x a week turn heads back to Priest River to tie up for the day. Here the crew is crossing the Priest River where it joins the Pend Orielle ri... (more)

An eastbound mixed freight has just come off the MRL at Sandpoint, ID. The head end has nearly crossed the entire 4800' length of the original span and the continued progress is visible on the sec... (more)

A westbound BNSF grain train crosses a bridge over Sand Creek near the marina and Sandpoint City Beach Park at Sandpoint, Idaho, on the afternoon of October 6, 2018.

A BNSF Chicago to Portland Stack train makes its way over the "swing bridge" portion of original Lake Pend Orielle bridge, while construction of the second railroad bridge across the lake is in fu... (more)

A Westbound unit grain train is seen crossing the 4800-foot bridge over Lake Pend Oreille from Sandpoint into Sagle, Idaho.

An Eastbound tank train is seen crossing Lake Pend Oreille in Sandpoint, Idaho.

St Maries RR on the way home from Plummer, crossing Lake Benewah on the former Milwaukee Road line, with former Milwaukee Road locomotives.

BNSF 8119 rolls across Deep Creek with a westbound train just after exiting a short tunnel near Burns, OR on the former GN mainline between Sandpoint, ID and Bonner's Ferry.

The calm of the Idaho pine forests are momentaily distrubed by the St. Maries River Railroad's Plummer turn. The train is lead by a pair of the railroads GP9s as they trundle across the massive Pe... (more)