On a stormy spring afternoon, a pair of oversized MACs easily hustle a short manifest southward through the post-volcanic, post-floods scablands of eastern Washington as they bang across the south... (more)

At the moment I photographed this eastbound manifest approaching Lind shortly after sunset, little did I have any clue that I had captured something unique. I later learned that these three locom... (more)

After making the long climb from the Columbia River up through Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: GE C44-9W (Dash 9-44CW)
Location: Winchester, Washington, USA
Locomotive #: BNSF 4453
Train ID: S-SEACHI3-29A
Photo Date: March 31, 2007

A pair of GEs struggle to drag what seems to be a mile-long box of Crayola crayons through Trinidad Loop, an unheralded engineering marvel laid out by the Great Northern that allowed the railroad ... (more)

Seeming to glow in perfect late-evening light, this trio of massive SD9043MACs effortlessly roll a long train of Canadian grain through the Wallula Gap. The gap is a geologic feature that began f... (more)

A change of seasons: The daily morning eastbound Z from South Seattle charges upgrade towards Cascade Tunnel on a wet and dreary Day in North America 2007. The bright colors of autumn's s... (more)

Where once there were two, now there are none: Last light on an autumn evening washes across the abandoned SP&S bridge in Washtucna, Washington and the small patch of crops planted below i... (more)

Even something so massive as a quartet of SD70ACes can be dwarfed by the sheer size of Montana's mountains and forests. A microcosm of that visual dominance was depicted on a rainy spring afterno... (more)

Final Flight: The last train of Boeing 737 fuselages to run south from Snohomish to Renton on BNSF's Woodinville Subdivision crosses Batt Slough on a typical murky Northwest winter morning.... (more)

A gorgeous spring morning found an empty grain train working eastbound through Kicking Horse Canyon, moving against the flow of the like-named river's remarkably clear waters. The incredible New ... (more)

High green under a high moon: Thin clouds have rolled in to obscure the brilliant moonlight, heralding anoth... (more)

The snow has finally stopped falling and the clouds above have broken apart, allowing a brilliant three-quarter moon to shine down on this winter wonderland in the Cascade Mountains. An hour or t... (more)

As the day's first light caressed the peaks of Temple and Crosby Mountains, Q-STPTAC1-25K was running for its life as it eagerly approached a Clear indication at West Skykomish. Just minutes ago,... (more)

In the pre-dawn gloom of a chilly winter morning, Seattle Streetcar's purple tram crosses Valley Steet as it approaches the South Lake Union station. Not too far away, the Space Needle was still ... (more)

The only word I can find to describe this scene is "surreal." Indeed, a bright three-quarter moon lighting up the Cascade Range forest during a blizzard could only be something imagined in one's ... (more)