Drifting downgrade along the west bank of the Palouse River, a loaded grain train emerges from tunnel 14 and is about to enter tunnel 13 in the Palouse River Canyon.

Soaring nearly 200 feet above the Snake River, a Boardman coal load stretches across nearly the entire 3,920-foot length of UP's Joso Bridge, its tail end still strung out through CPE273 on the fa... (more)

Union Pacific's six-days-a-week manifest from Hinkle, Oregon, to Spokane, Washington, heads north at dawn through the deep cut at Palouse Falls State Park.

An overpowered edition of UP's "Produce Express," with an AC44CCTE and a handful of ES44ACs on the head end, twists along the Columbia River shortly after departing the RailEx facility at Wallula,... (more)

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)

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 verdant patch of cultivated crops conspicuously contrasts with the natural brown color of the the eastern Washington "desert." Lying between the irrigated Columbia Basin Project lands and the f... (more)

One of CP's Christmas Train units departs Wells siding in the scablands of eastern Washington on UP's Ayer Sub late on a summer afternoon. The 4-3/4" superelevation of the outside rail in the 2-d... (more)

There's not a great deal of traffic on UP's Ayer sub, but I saw this train going through Cheney and sprinted the 95 miles to this location well in advance, even stopping briefly to admire the scen... (more)

One of the elusive Boardman coal trains rolls under the "Twin Sisters" before negotiating Thrasher's Curve on UP's Ayer Sub.

One of my favorites from last years DINA trip. Looking something like a robotic caterpillar, UP 8260, along with 3 other SD90-43macs, pulls this Q-ETT4 Potash train up the grade from the Columb... (more)

Northbound empty Canpotex, Inc. (Potash) train on UP's Ayer Sub.

A manifest bound is reaching the top of Marshall canyon. The BNSF flyover is in the background.