A cold, snow night on the Palouse.
Moving around storage cars on the south end of the W&I
Sub-freezing conditions and some wild weather in the afternoon give away to blue skies and sun in the evening. The '04 has been drifting lately, if you couldn't already tell.
Draped in snow and ice, this Southern Pacific in costume only unit is quite used to winter, having spent years battling Canadian snows having been built for CN. Once it pulled passenger trains fo... (more)
Combining two trains, one from Potlatch, the other from Moscow, in the city of Palouse.
Jeramey commands the F and the 20 "sprint" towards Pullman; 30mph.
Vapor rises from Washington State Universities West Steam Plant into the frigid night. Now operating on natural gas boilers, there are many more heating nights ahead for the old, once-coal fired s... (more)
The most powerful moon of all: the Harvest Moon. Representing a successful and plentiful harvest in Norse mythology, it rises brightly over the harvested wheat fields of the Palouse region of Wash... (more)
Easing off Sunshine Hill and into the 10mph yard limits, the Southern Pacific unit F leads the way into Pullman.
Stan unlocks and throws one of the most important switches on the W&I. This switch can make a train go north to Marshall to the BNSF or west to UP via Ayer. Sadly, a bridge-out prevents the UP int... (more)
Its an uncommon day in Pullman. The Washington & Idaho unlocks the UP Junction switch to head west for the first time in a year. BNSF has called back 10,000' of well cars. The first 5,000' will be... (more)
The W&I rolls along the Palouse River in Potlatch, Idaho.
A big, black Cadillac rolls down the middle of the newly-repaved and re-railed Whitman Street.
The sky turns crimson over the Washington and Idaho Railroad's yard as their sleek Southern Pacific unit silently waits to be called into action.
Washingtion & Idaho train drifts over a trestle heading north after cresting the hill before Palza.