On a brisk October morning in the upper reaches of Echo Canyon, an eastbound intermodal train bound for Chicago rolls under the old US Route 30 overpass at Emory, about to take the upper track whe... (more)

A westbound local returns back towards Vancouver, WA after the passage of the eastbound Empire Builder. The leader, a former BN GP38-2, has received the PTC "unibrow" treatment.

A westbound intermodal headed for Tacoma rolls through Cashmere, WA, meeting its eastbound counterpart which is sitting in the siding out of view. See 463245 for how this patchwork paint job came ... (more)

MPEX 6201, the sole MP2000C in existence, sits coupled to a few other rarities on the long-term storage track outside Motive Power in Boise, as a major storm rolls into the area. MPI recently anno... (more)

The old and new faces of EMD. A pair of SD40-2s working a yard job, relegated to these duties, pull past a comparatively new SD70ACe, a 2016 graduate of the storied locomotive builder, now working... (more)

Whose railroad is it anyway? KCS 4607 leads two CP units and a CEFX unit on a westbound UP manifest rolling through Notus, ID. Note the friendly conductor.

On a somewhat decent 4th of July morning, an eastbound intermodal pulls out of Quartz siding after meeting the westbound ZG1BR, also known by some as the morning UPS train. In the background are t... (more)

Shining in the morning light, AMTK 184, the Phase IV heritage unit, leads AMTK 27, the Portland section of the Empire Builder, westbound just outside Lyle, WA.

An eastbound loaded coal train out of Wyoming begins its assault on Crawford Hill in far northwestern Nebraska. Note the white sand already visible on the trucks of the lead locomotives - this tra... (more)

UP's Pocatello to Eastport manifest departs Nampa, ahead of an incoming storm, the third to hit the area in the past three days. A pair of CP GEs bracket a CN unit, showing that the two Canadian r... (more)

Shortly after a maintenance window in the area lifted, a westbound loaded ethanol train drifts downgrade through Echo, past its iconic rock outcrop. As this train approached the crossing - which i... (more)

Running approximately half an hour late, UP 4014 and 844's legendary doubleheader excursion - the first EVER pulled by a Big Boy - rolls away from Devils Slide and into Henefer, Utah.

A westbound intermodal rounds the curve into Kuna, the lead unit sporting mismatched numberboards.

An ET44AC leads a somewhat rare (for 2019) shield logo AC44 and a newer SD70ACe, elephant style, into La Grande. The brick platform of the station is well maintained.

An eastbound manifest rolls through North Powder on the last Saturday of January 2019, with one of two ex-SP GP40P-2s left on the UP roster trailing 5th dead in tow.