From a precarious perch above Tunnel 15 deep in the Oregon Cascades, a friend and I beheld the sights and especially the sounds of railroading on the ex-SP Cascades Crossing. We listened to three ... (more)

First afternoon on the Coast Line! After seven days of railfanning the Oregon Trunk, the Shasta Line, Donner, Tehachapi, and Soledad Canyon, I was ready to relax a bit. It was quite the relief to ... (more)

On a warm summer morning, a colorful eastbound stack train cruises along the Meadow Valley Wash approaching the upper end of Rainbow Canyon between Etna and Caliente on UP's remote Caliente Subdiv... (more)

Not your everyday helper setup! After a long struggle up the grade from Hilgard, stalling out once below Motanic, getting going again at a 10 MPH grind, the crew of the westbound stack trai... (more)

From a lonely vantage point on top of a pile of rocks, seven classic EMD's are seen guiding Trona Railway's daily outbound train of hoppers winding up the grade through the desert approaching The ... (more)

An empty unit coal train on its return journey to the Powder River Basin rockets blasts through the autumn foliage east of Kootenai, Idaho, having just begun its trek across Montana Rail Link a fe... (more)

After meeting a northbound M-HKETB at Joso siding, an 18,000 ton potash train rumbles slowly across the massive Joso Bridge in southeast Washington, soaring nearly 200 feet above the Snake River.

A rare sight: MRL SD70ACe's in Idaho! Despite Montana Rail Link's mainline extending nearly 40 miles into Idaho and then crews running another 50+ miles over BNSF trackage to Washington, it... (more)

Another spectacular clear morning sky greets the northbound Coast Starlight as it banks into a curve approaching Cougar, California beneath a snowy Mount Shasta.

At last light, an intermodal train eases up to the east switch of Ramsey to wait for a westbound manifest to roll past on the last few miles until the crew change at Hauser.

MRL's Business Train races west around the sweeping curve near Cyr, Montana on a spectacular spring morning in the valley of the Clark Fork River.

During a brief break of sunlight on a mostly cloudy day, a nice and clean SD70ACe is seen bringing up the rear of a heavy lumber freight as it drops out of the Blue Mountains along the Grande Rond... (more)

The shadows are growing long on the final day of 2014 as a westbound manifest races along the frigid waters of the Clark Fork River between Noxon and Heron, Montana.

A unit potash train headed for Little Mountain, UT is seen on the cliffs high above the Kootenai River as it descends the 1% grade to Bonners Ferry. BNSF's busy Kootenai River Subdivision is visib... (more)

Southbound Cascades #517 crosses Chuckanut Bay just a few miles south of Bellingham at the end of a beautiful spring day on Washington's northern coast.