Plenty of St. Patrick's Day green covers the Cascades' east slopes in May 1984 as BN 6432 grinds its heavy westbound train up the 1 percent grade out of the Wenatchee River Valley at Peshastin, WA... (more)

Welcome to Paradise!. For a moment it's all Montana Rail Link as the local power watches the afternoon gas train roll west toward Thompson Falls. These were the only regular MRL equipped assignmen... (more)

A southbound Wisconsin Central coal train passes by the Don Bechler and Sons dairy farm just south of Van Dyne, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of April 14, 1997.

On April 5, 1996, scrappers working near the locomotive facility at Wisconsin Central’s Shops Yard at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, are reducing older surplus locomotives to pieces of scrap and ... (more)

Fred Tolan and his Washington-Oregon Shippers Assn. were very influential in the Pacific Northwest in controlling which railroad got traffic. One movement they controlled was inbound shipments of ... (more)

The day's last light reflects off Samish Bay as BN 6459 glides across the Colony Creek trestle at Blanchard, WA, south of Bellingham along Chuckanut Drive. The train is headed from Vancouver, BC t... (more)

UP 3607, an SD45 rumble across the swing bridge just west of the UP Tacoma yard. Once across it will immediately swing north onto the BN mainline which it shares for the run to Portland, OR. The t... (more)

A nice mix of EMD power led by BN SD45 no. 6512 climbs the one percent grade of the Chumstick cutoff west of Leavenworth, heading from Wenatchee to Seattle via the Cascade Tunnel under Stevens Pas... (more)

On a gorgeous Seattle November day, SD45 3618 and mate sandwich BN SD40-2 6910 at Argo Yard. In addition to UP's own wide range of power, their practice of encouraging run through trains with nea... (more)

A CN-IC Decatur-bound grain train has a nice surprise on the point--a WC SD45!

A Burlington Northern Santa Fe Q train trundles by as it climbs Bozeman Pass, and with only two locomotive pulling it, MRL’s LM (Laurel to Missoula freight) has caught up to it on red signals an... (more)

WC 6534 works the south end of CNW's Butler, WI yard in September of 1993.

A lash up you would think could only happen on a model railroad. D&RGW SD45's 5328, and 5336, sandwich a big Union Pacific DD35 83. They are going under the over pass at 4th South, running down 4... (more)

Sitting in Canadian Pacific’s Bensenville Yard are two I&M Rail Link (IMRL) SD45s. The I&M Rail Link, owned by the Washington Companies, operated 1,385 miles of trackage in the states of Illino... (more)