After a month of no snow and unseasonably warm temps, winter finally arrived, and folks along Utah's Wasatch Front woke up to a White Christmas. DYRX 644 is seen here spotted at where Amtrak's Des... (more)

A FrontRunner train on non-UTA tracks with wood ties passes through Harrisville, Utah this evening, north of Ogden. UTA has its own ~80 mile line with concrete ties between Ogden and Provo, but fo... (more)

A Wahsatch hanging out at Ogden Union Station in the early morning hour prior to its date with the public.

UP Big Boy taking a breather at Ogden Union Station before it traverses the Wasatch Mountain Range once again.

UP Big Boy taking a breather at Ogden Union Station before it traverses the Wasatch Mountain Range once again.

An eastbound freight makes its way between Lava Hot Springs and Bancroft on the Oregon Short Line route.

A San Joaquin train idles quietly at Sacramento's brand new station platforms as the sun rises.

An express train with an CalTrain Operation Lifesaver unit rolls past Bayshore Station.

The 507 out of Portland headed to Eugene gets the highball through Brooklyn Yard, which was strangely empty on this day.

The Portland Streetcar #010 awaits its next assignment as it sits outside the entrance to the shops, located under I-405 in northwest Portland. The Portland Streetcar is not really a railroad of i... (more)

The southbound Coast Starlight, which ran over Tehachapi Pass the next day, passes a northbound Union Pacific freight sitting in the Lookout Siding in the area of Pengra Pass.

A westbound MAX train making its station stop at Beaverton Central Station.

231 popped inside the Roundhouse so we could utilize an overhead crane to take apart its turbocharger. It was such a tease to have the 231 in between a Daylight-painted car and a Daylight locomoti... (more)

Fresh out of the shops, one of the two latest NPCU's to be converted from powered F40s to depowered cab-control F40s. 278 does have an air compressor in the carbody to help with main reservoir iss... (more)

The 644 stands by the 16-lead, ready to head down to Albany for its next assignment on the Portland & Western Railroad. I'd forgotten how clean of a locomotive it was!