Yes, its almost time to head into the mountains for a little winter railfanning.  This photo is from Robert’s and my December 2008 trip to the Blue Mountains where witnessed 18″ of snowfall in 24 hours.  This trip provided some of our best winter...

Reader Paige asked in the comments to my Making the Most of a Cloudy Day post about how to photograph trains on a cloudy day.  Her question prompted me to put together my thoughts on the topic… The first thing to understand is what the clouds do. ...

A few weeks ago I gave a presentation at Ignite Corvallis offering a fun introduction to railroad photography mixed with innuendo.  Thanks to Charles Bonville for recording my talk… here’s my 5 minute talk:

I’m stealing the title of this post from Moose Peterson.  I’m doing it for a reason though as I want dogcaught readers to think about the most important ingredient before they click over and read Moose’s thoughts on the topic.   My feeling is Moose...

As we know the Northwest’s drizzle doesn’t stop the trains. It doesn’t seem to North-westerners either.  This morning I found a father and child along with another couple observing the passage of a northbound UP manifest at Vancouver’s Amtrak...