You know I love trains, all kinds, including monorails. So naturally, when I got to Seattle, I had to ride the monorail that stops right next to the Space Needle. This is a view of the interior after everyone else got off at the end of the line. (I stayed on for the return trip.) [...]
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Ready to Go
A BNSF freight train waits beside grain silos in the rail yard at Havre, Montana. (Pronounced “Hav-er.”) I shot the original photo from my train window while we were stopped in Havre. At first I thought that my wide angle lens caused the tracks to curve like that, but peeking at the train yard on [...]
BNSF 2733
Now you know I love trains, all of them, freight and passenger. So my niece and I were in downtown Bismarck one day, right by the old Northern Pacific depot (now a Mexican restaurant), when a freight train came through pulled by BNSF 2733. I tried to get the engineer to wave at me, and [...]
Empire Builder in the Rockies
It was spring when we left Portland, Oregon, on Amtrak’s Empire Builder. But when we awoke the next morning, the light outside the window was completely white. We were high in the Rockies in western Montana, everything was still snow covered and the sky was completely overcast. More snow was falling. It felt a bit [...]
