A BNSF Z-train rolls east along the Wenatchee River in fall color, supported by a colorful consist. In about 15 minutes the train will be stopped in Wenatchee for a quick crew change before headin... (more)

Amtrak's Pacific International is about 30 minutes out of King St. station, Seattle, WA as it glides along Puget Sound en route to Everett. Passengers headed to Vancouver, BC will get more water l... (more)

The westbound Super Continental slows for a station stop and crew change at Boston Bar, BC in August 1975. At this time, this train was arguably the most beautiful "painted" passenger tr... (more)

CP 5797's train kicks up the snow at Ruskin, BC after a President's Day (US) weekend blizzard piled up snow in Vancouver, the Fraser Valley and the Fraser River Canyon. Although train traffic was ... (more)

CNW 5094 leads two more GP50s elephant style around a curve near Carroll, IA with a Falcon service intermodal train headed from Chicago to a connection with the Union Pacific at Fremont, NE. The &... (more)

The North Coast Hiawatha with a rainbow of color makes its station stop at North La Crosse, WI en route to Chicago. Three GN heritage cars are followed by a former Burlington dome observation off ... (more)

MRL 4406 returns the morning gas train toward Missoula, MT via Montana Rail Link's 10th Sub. The train has just crossed the Flathead River and will continue east along it before heading toward Eva... (more)

MRL 4408 slows the morning gas train for its stop at the gas facility at the east end of Thompson Falls, MT as morning fog burns off the Clark Fork.

BNSF 9309 rolls through Cashmere, WA with an empty coal train. Area fires are causing haze in the atmosphere near the end of yet another smoky summer in Washington state.

BNSF 8759 drops down Winston Hill just northwest of Townsend, MT with an empty coal train on Montana Rail Link. The train is eastbound headed for Laurel, MT to interchange with BNSF.

BNSF 8871 leads an eastbound coal train through Wendover Canyon along the North Platte River in eastern Wyoming. This train could be headed for Denver and Texas, or east across Nebraska at this po... (more)

Heading east to go west, the California Zephyr leaves Rocky and heads toward Big 10 curve on the beginning of its Front Range climb out of Denver. The cut in the hill above is Clay siding.

CNW 4162 wearing its final CNW color scheme has found a new life switching the elevator at Silver Creek, NE, adjacent to Union Pacific's mainline west from Omaha. Ten years after the UP-CNW merger... (more)

GN SD9 no. 581 idles at the wash rack in Superior, WI adjacent to a couple of F units. The three units display both of GN's orange and green schemes as well as Big Sky Blue. This is becoming a lit... (more)

Canadian National's Super Continental cruises west along the Fraser River near Hells Gate. The train has left Boston Bar, BC and is making the last lap of its transcontinental voyage from Montreal... (more)