On a February evening not fit for man nor beast, the North Coast Hiawatha readies for departure from Seattle's King St. Station for Everett, Wenatchee, Spokane and Minneapolis via the former NP ma... (more)

Finally after a summer of not catching the elusive local west out of Chippewa Falls, my son Rob and I lucked into it while shooting a few fall color photos near Wheeler, WI. We got ahead of the ea... (more)

Progressive Rail's no. 40 was captured sunning itself at Chippewa Falls, WI on the Wisconsin Northern. The spotless unit currently features a plaque honoring their relationship with CP. This unit,... (more)

A bit of a different view of UP 4014, looking down the double smoke stack, as the engine rolls toward Union Station near Westminster Jct. in St. Paul on its return from Duluth/Superior.

UP 7295, yet to receive UP Wings, is parked with an empty coke train at Ajax siding several miles west of Elk Mound, WI on the former C&NW Chicago-Twin Cities mainline. During 2018 and most of 201... (more)

UP 2767 gets underway out of Hoffman Avenue yard in St. Paul, rolling past Dayton Bluff on its way north to Superior (Itasca), WI. this train uses BNSF trackage rights from here to Saunders, WI.

A CN vehicle train makes good time heading south at Gordon, WI on former C&NW trackage. About half a mile south of this location the main will connect with the former Soo Line which will be used t... (more)

A pair of GMDs head a sand train down the siding at Atwood, WI. It will meet two northbound trains before dontinuing to Stevens Point.

A CN stack train rolls north at Atwood, WI on the afternoon of August 6, 2019. After a totally clear morning, clouds accrued in the afternoon causing the sunlight to play hide and seek with the tr... (more)

A CN stack train rolls south at Atwood, WI on the morning of August 6, 2019. This train made it through without a meet. During the day we witnessed three meets (at least) here, some were triple he... (more)

Stacks meet boxes as CN 3034 races its southbound stack train on the main at Atwood, WI while a northbound cools its heels for this and a following train. Triple meets are not uncommon on the CN i... (more)

BNSF 5498 arrives at Appleyard with the daily manifest freight from Spokane. The Stevens Pass line has emphasized intermodal and empty unit train traffic for years under BNSF management with manif... (more)

BNSF 3126 races a colorful consist through the fog in Edmonds, WA on a westbound freight on an early July morning. To the left, Puget Sound is basically invisible.

BNSF 2076 leads a trio of heritage I painted Geeps basking in the sun at Interbay locomotive facilities in Seattle. In 2004 it was also still common to see some green units, although most were re-... (more)

BNSF 2834 joins a mix of old and newer power at Seattle's Interbay locomotive facilities showing off two BN color schemes and two BNSF color schemes on four engines.