With the sunlight fading fast at the end of a long summer day, a westbound oil train navigates the Kootenai River Gorge between Katka and Crossport at the northernmost location on BNSF's entire No... (more)

Due to spring flooding in North Dakota that washed out portions of BNSF's mainline, several high priority intermodal trains were temporarily rerouted over MRL. On an early July morning, a detourin... (more)

A trio of H3 ES44's race eastbound with a colorful stack train across the massive fill at Granite on a crystal clear May morning.

With the Clark Fork River at an unusually low level following a long winter, three H3's lead an empty unit coal train slowly across the river approaching the west switch of Colby in the final minu... (more)

Deep in the Kootenai River Gorge of western Montana, an eastbound manifest twists its way through the seemingly endless curves and tunnels that characterize this long and slow stretch of BNSF's No... (more)

As layers of fog shift around the valley, a lonely ES44AC works in heavy dynamic braking on the rear end of a westbound manifest descending the Meacham Creek Canyon at the east switch of Camp. Rea... (more)

On a cold February afternoon, a manifest with an unusual cut of domestic intermodal on the point heads west over the Idaho state line (marked by the blue roadway sign to the left), while on Main 2... (more)

On a beautiful early spring day, a westbound intermodal train passes beneath the rock cliffs of the Cabinet Gorge, having just entered Idaho several minutes ago. In the distance, traces of a long ... (more)

Several minutes after the sun had set, the sky was still alive with color above Lake Pend Oreille as a westbound manifest rolled across the famous bridge over the lake.

With fall colors just barely beginning to show in the bushes, a single H3 Dash 9 leads a westbound manifest off of MRL upgrade into the big sand cut at Granite on BNSF's Funnel, the mainline betwe... (more)

As a brief hole in the clouds opens to allow sunlight to shine down on the meadows east of Bonners Ferry, an eastbound empty grain train nears the crossovers at CP1366 among early autumn color. Th... (more)

Perfect timing: A rolling meet at Hauser Junction, Idaho as an eastbound stack train coming over the crest of the hill meets a westbound manifest on its way towards Spokane.

Viewed from my lonely rock outcropping, a single DPU trails a heavy K-Line stack train up the remote Meacham Creek Canyon, located on the west slope of the Blue Mountains between Camp and Huron. T... (more)

A quartet of SD9043MAC's lead a northbound empty unit grain train up the 1% climb out of the Kootenai River Valley between Bonners Ferry and Moyie Springs, seen here emerging from Tunnel 2. On the... (more)

On Christmas Eve 2009, two SD9043MAC's lead an 18,000 ton potash train around the curve at the north end of the Rathdrum Prairie as the Coeur d' Alene Mountains to the east are getting a fresh dum... (more)