A weather-worn former GTW GP9, which has worked at this rural elevator for over twenty years without a single alteration to its paint, still carries its long-hood bell, showing that the locomotive... (more)

An eastbound UP manifest rolls past the grain elevator in Mountain Home, ID; the Amalgamated Sugar spur is seen in the foreground.

An eastbound empty coal train rolls through Skykomish, WA, location of one of two "Virtual Railfan" cameras (out of at least 20 the site has) in Washington state, having evidently passed... (more)

A westbound BNSF Z-train with an SD70ACe on point crosses the Columbia River bridge from Pasco into Kennewick, WA as a WDFW police boat crosses under it. Above, the Ed Hendler cable-stayed bridge ... (more)

A westbound manifest crests the Wasatch Range at, appropriately, Wahsatch, Utah. It's all downhill from here into Ogden. Note the center siding still utilizing jointed track and hand-thrown switch... (more)

The same eastbound intermodal seen in 714989 rolls under the WY-89 overpass in Evanston, WY. Photo taken from the parking lot of Evanston's Walmart, which is actually a rather decent location to c... (more)

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)