An all-CN powered Prince Rupert, BC-bound export coal train follows the Clark Fork River downstream through the railroad west (geographic east) switch of Toole. The Clark Fork runs brown with dirt... (more)

The entirety of a massive 129-car unit Canpotex potash train can be seen as the train heads south down the scenic Palouse River Canyon at Park. The two DPU's can be seen in the distance.

After switching the gasoline facility at Pipeline, just east of Thompson Falls, MRL's Night Gas highballs town at sunset and begins its journey back to Missoula.

The eastbound Day Gas crests the summit of Evaro Hill on MRL's 10th Subdivision, with several high peaks of the Mission Mountain Range visible in the distance.

A heavy westbound unit grain train rolls down the Clark Fork River approaching Plains, Montana on a crystal clear morning in Big Sky Country.

With dynamic brakes roaring, an SD9043MAC and an ES44AC work to hold back a southbound manifest as it descends over the Kootenai River into Bonners Ferry on a beautiful summer day in North Idaho.

The St. Maries River Railroad's Branch Train heads south up the railroad's namesake river between St. Maries and Lotus with a long train of log flats heading to Clarkia for loading.

On a warm, early spring day, a long, heavy stack train crawls up the 1% grade of Trinidad Hill in central Washington.

The Great Northwest Railroad's Ayer Turn cruises west down the Snake River on a hot summer afternoon between Lewiston and Wawawai.

One of the North Pend Oreille Valley Lions Club's chartered excursion trains for the annual "Down River Days" festival in Ione, WA heads south over a small wooden trestle on the return t... (more)

UP's Plummer Turn skirts the northern edge of the Palouse farmlands near Freeman on its journey back to Spokane. The train is composed of 23 loads from the St. Maries River Railroad and 2 loads fr... (more)

The two ex-Milwaukee GP9's powering today's STMA "Switcher" are spewing out a cloud of exhaust as they pull a healthy train of 23 loads of lumber westward down the St. Joe River valley, ... (more)

On it's way to the Clarkia Reload with a long train of empty log flats, the southbound Branch Train, powered by a pair of GP9's, crosses the wooden trestle over Highway 3 in the little town of San... (more)

A late-running Seattle-bound Empire Builder blasts up the grade towards Lyons during a spectacular summer sunrise in Eastern Washington.

Three matched blue MRL SD45's lead a westbound M-LAUSPO down the Clark Fork River along the narrow rock shelf approaching Plateau Tunnel (the portal of which can be seen on the right).