Under a typical Pacific Northwest sky, the Albany and Eastern local makes its way west toward Albany and the Portland and Western interchange. On this day, Oct. 15, 2012, Southern Pacific S... (more)

Southern Pacific Heritage: Daylight 4-8-4 No. 4449 wasn't the only piece of SP heritage running in Oregon last week. On Monday, Oct. 22, SP SD9 No. 5399 was hauling revenue freight on the A... (more)

Dusk at Denton: On a quiet September night, Central Montana GP9 1814 waits in the small yard at Denton, Mont. for the following day's assignment. Less than 12 hours later, the locomotive wo... (more)

Hoosac Tunnel?: Hoosac, Mont. is long way away from the Boston and Maine and the real Hoosac Tunnel, but at 2,014 foot long, the Central Montana's Sage Creek Tunnel is just as impressive. O... (more)

High Plains and Lonely Trains: Central Montana Rail Extra 1814 East looks insignificant on the 1,698 foot long Sage Creek Trestle, just west of Danvers, Mont. Operating on the former Milwau... (more)

Essex, Montana: There are railroad towns and then there is Essex. Located on the former Great Northern Railway's Marias Pass line, the small community was and still is a critical helper sta... (more)

The Royal Canadian Pacific: As someone who grew up flipping through the pages of "Nicholas Morant's Canadian Pacific," the idea of shooting an A-B-A set of CP F-units leading a passenger tr... (more)

Is an SD40-2 rare? Well maybe not a few years ago when I made my first trip to the storied Marias Pass line in northwest Montana, but after a year of living in the area, the sight of an SD4... (more)

On a bright Thursday morning Amtrak No. 8, the Empire Builder, crosses the Middle Fork of the Flathead River at Coram, Mont. The second unit is Amtrak Phase I heritage unit No. 156.

Dreamers: In 2012, a steam locomotive restoration takes a lot of time, money and talent to get done. Far too often restoration efforts flounder due to a lack of one of these things. But the... (more)

After a day of rain and clouds,: seeing the sun bust through at Caithness, British Columbia was a welcomed sight while railfanning on Canadian Pacific's Cranbrook Subdivision. Seen here in ... (more)

A Mission Mountain Railroad: local works its way north on the afternoon of June 22, 2012. After living in the Flathead Valley for more than a year, I've chased the Mission Mountain a good n... (more)

Dashing through the... snow?: A westbound BNSF stack train rolls along the Flathead River, on the southern boundary of Glacier National Park. Although it's raining along the Flathead, furth... (more)

For the first time in nearly a year, Montana Rail Link dispatched a local down the former Northern Pacific Darby Branch, south of Missoula. The line had been shut down in June 2011 after fl... (more)

A Mission Mountain Railroad local storms through Evergreen, Montana on the afternoon of May 15, 2012. Traffic appears to have been growing on this former Great Northern branchline between C... (more)