Wordless Wednesday #23

 

It is 5:41 AM on June 23. A westbound grainer comes off the bridge crossing Lake Pend Oreille just south of Sandpoint, ID. The train is pulled by BNSF 4781and 4651 (GE Dash 9-44CW) and pushed by an unknown unit and the BNSF 7871 (GE ES 44DC). Photo by Bob Wilcox.

Wordless Wednesday #22

POVA #102 crosses Kent Creek near Dalkena, WA. Photo by Ted Curphey

Wordless Wednesday #21

Model railroad-styling meets real life in Bellow Falls Vermont. 

Wordless Wednesday #20

Rock Island #886 is dressed for the holidays at the Wheels O' Time Museum in Dunlap, IL

Wordless Wednesday #19

TP&W Caboose #508 receiving a fresh paint job at the Wheels O' Time Museum in Dunlap IL, (I pass by this caboose every day on my way to work.)

Wordless Wednesday #18

Union Pacific #5449 crawls through Sandpoint Idaho in the early morning hours on it's way to Spokane Washington

Wordless Wednesday #17

An old Great Northern boxcar sits in the former GN yard at Sandpoint, ID in 2017.

Wordless Wednesday #16

A POVA freight  finishes switching Riley Creek Lumber as storm clouds begin to roll in.

Wordless Wednesday #15

Working a paper mill on a cold winter's day.

Wordless Wednesday #14

A train, dwarfed by the snow-covered trees surrounding it, rumbles along the Montana Rail Link's 4th sub.

Wordless Wednesday #13

A BNSF train crawls along the banks of Loon Lake in icy Washington.

Wordless Wednesday #12

"On a crisp, early autumn day, a trio of Montana Rail Link SD45s power a BNSF freight westbound into Algoma, Idaho, only moments after crossing the bridge over Lake Pend Oreille from Sandpoint, on October 3, 2014." Photo by Mike Dannerman

Wordless Wednesday #11

The crew waits for over two hours for permission to enter the Union Pacific mainline at Dover Idaho.

Wordless Wednesday #10

A 2-6-6-2 rolls north up the beautiful Pend Oreille River Valley on the Metaline Falls Branch

Wordless Wednesday #9

A train on the main line of BNSF’s Kootenai River Subdivision crosses the Pend Oreille River in the evening hours heading out from Sandpoint ID.

Wordless Wednesday #8

Fog over Noxon Bridge, Montana

Wordless Wednesday #7

Canadian Pacific train near Dover, ID

Wordless Wednesday #6

A Union Pacific train crosses the Pend Oreille River Bridge just west of Dover, Idaho

Wordless Wednesday #5

Working the pulpwood loading tracks on a warm February day.

Wordless Wednesday #4

Blizzard conditions near Peshastin, Washington. Photo by Bill Edgar.