The work the
iron demands.
Spokane is a railroad city in the truest sense — multiple Class I carriers, a geography that forces interesting operational decisions, and a concentration of traffic that keeps the lines moving at all hours. The Latah Bridge crossing is one of the signature railroad structures of the Pacific Northwest: a steel trestle over the Latah Creek canyon that places trains against a dramatic geological backdrop within a few miles of the city center.
The BNSF Spokane Subdivision carries everything — coal empties running north to the mines, loaded grain heading west to the Columbia Basin elevators, stacks bound for the coast. We work the Latah Bridge approach, the Sunset Junction signals, and the Spokane Street corridor through the industrial district — a zone where locomotive geometry and urban infrastructure overlap in ways that reward a photographer who knows what to look for.