A Pend Oreille Valley freight heads east over Trickle Creek near Wrencoe, Idaho on its way from Newport, WA to Sandpoint, ID where it will interchange traffic with BNSF. The line is Great Northern... (more)

UP looks its best on its original home turf. Here UP 5846 makes good time heading a manifest freight west from North Platte running straight as an arrow along rows of corn and power poles at signa... (more)

BNSF DPU no. 6104 has it pretty easy as it cruises eastbound on the rear of an empty coal train on Montana Rail Link near Trout Creek, MT. The train is along a pond just west of town.

Although still operating as the DM&IR, the railroad is 13 months into its acquisition by Canadian National. SD38-2 no. 212 could use some touch up paint. The unit was built in March 1975 and was t... (more)

A favorite train watching location in the Puget Sound Region is along Sunset Blvd. in Edmonds, just north of the ferry slip. BNSF's mainline hugs the shoreline, and numerous Amtrak, Sounder and BN... (more)

Sporting one of the nicer color schemes ever designed, a quartet of BAP Geeps and a short train pause for a lunch break for the crew at Fairmont Hot Springs, MT. The track was walking distance fro... (more)

This photo was taken at the end of a couple eras. These two cabooses bringing up the end of an eastbound SP freight entering Roseville represent a couple generations of bay window caboose design. ... (more)

November is arguably the wettest month of the year in much of the Pacific Northwest, and Portland was not exempt the day this trio of Cadillacs was captured at Brooklyn Yard framed by SP's steam e... (more)

In the summer of 1983 train 406 was now known as DWPRA (DWP-Proviso manifest), and pretty much originated in Symington Yard at Winnipeg, MB on CN. Soon CN through GTW would make a go for the bankr... (more)

UP 8215 and two EMDs have the front end of a westbound sand train parked at Ajax siding, waiting clearance to head to St. Paul. The heavy train rated two additional units as DPUs on the rear. It w... (more)

UP 1967 leads the weekday local turn from Altoona to Menomonie, WI east under Jeffers Road bridge at the west end of Eau Claire after a day's work handling chores on the Twin Cities mainline. Heav... (more)

CN 3107 and a second Tier 4 GE roll into Auburndale siding to get out of the way of a westbound freight that is already approaching Auburndale from the east. If the siding were a bit longer there... (more)

CN 2693 is stopped at a siding at Rocky Run just west of Stevens Point, WI where its train has just received a new crew to take the train east to Fond Du Lac. They will have to wait a bit though a... (more)

CP 8009 leads a mixed vehicle/stack train west at Mauston, WI as it passes under US 12 on the east end of town.

MRL SD40 no. 251 and mate work a freight east having just left Big Timber, MT. The train is occupying Northern Pacific's former mainline along the Yellowstone River with the Crazy Mountains provid... (more)