Milwaukee Road SD40-2 no. 24 leads a freight west across the Yakima River near Cabin creek, west of Easton, WA as it starts its rather easy climb up the east side of Snoqualmie Pass en route to Ta... (more)

A Milwaukee freight led by GP9 285 heads west (south) past a string of loaded log cars east of Maytown, WA on April Fool's Day 1979. The train is en route to Portland, OR and will get on BN tracka... (more)

The Canadian takes the siding while a westbound freight slides by on the main on Kicking Horse Pass near Summit Lake on the BC/Alberta border west of Lake Louise. The CP head brakeman or fireman g... (more)

A fresh coat of paint does not appear to be enough to keep CNW 1685 going. The unit is stored dead and appears to be in the process of being parted out at Huron, SD in October 1980. Sister unit 1... (more)

CNW made a lot of improvements in the 1970s and 80s, but were pretty frugal when it came to yard trackage. Here at Altoona this view shows a transition track to a scale, which obviously has seen b... (more)

The CN Super Continental rolls south down the Thompson Rvier valley north of North Kamloops in August 1975. The train features an A-B-B set of FP9s, and a former Milwaukee Road Superdome, but did ... (more)

A Cascade & Columbia River freight heads north along the Columbia River behind former California Northern 106 and a Rail America GP9. At this location the main highway has climbed up and tunneled ... (more)

Washington & Idaho SD9 602 and SD40-2 3000 take their time moving a train load of propane cars (with buffer) northwest from Oaksdale toward the BNSF interchange at Marshall, WA. The line was forme... (more)

Cloquet Terminal Railroad SW1000 no. 35 and an SW1 are parked at the paper mill. Another switcher is in the background near the mill buildings. With the galvanized garbage cans protecting the top ... (more)

CP 9353 has a westbound Canpotex potash train in tow on CN trackage west of Spences Bridge, BC at the famous Skoonka tunnels along the Thompson River.

CN 5731 has a work train of Difco dump cars getting under way at Spences Bridge after emptying slide debris in town. The train regularly works a slide area near Skihist Provincial Park, unloading ... (more)

BNSF 7340 heads a westbound stack/vehicle train across the causeway that creates Horse Thief Lake along the Columbia River west of Wishram, WA near the crossing into The Dalles, OR. The train is h... (more)

An Albany & Eastern log train returns from a log re-load center at Crabtree, OR north of Lebanon after swapping empties for loads. The bridge is a former SP bridge over the South Santiam River on ... (more)

Next to the Trinidad siding and elevator, BNSF maintenance crews have stacked an interesting pile of stick rail which gave off a nice orange reflection in the day's last light.

The Spud Local passes a Herzog maintenance train parked at the Trinidad elevator for the night. The local is returning to Wenatchee's Appleyard after working Quincy and possibly Ephrata during the... (more)