Midnight charge: a dry storm hit me during the Depot-shoot.

For a winter or two, the norm was for the spreader to load the #1 track with snow and let the flangers have some fun. On this February day the spreader has done its job and the 604 is nose plowi... (more)

In Feb of 2011 Mother Nature was dumping on Truckee. As the snow falls UP 602 is doing its part on the Hill keeping the rails clear.

Looking like a Star Wars scene In February of 2006 the weather was no different from a typical Sierra Nevada Winter. In this scene the UP 604 pauses in Truckee, CA while the storm continu... (more)

A downpour gives some CSX GEs a bath, while they're hard at work pulling a manifest train south from ( Birmingham, AL to Waycross, GA).

It may be springtime in Denver and other parts of the country, but up here at East Portal, Colorado, at over 9,000 feet in elevation, winter still reigns supreme. A westbound Rio Grande freight fi... (more)

Metra F40PH No. 176 is running in push mode as it powers an eastbound commuter train.

Thunderstorms build in the background as Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief races through the intermediate Semaphore Signals by Colmor siding.

2M62U diesel locomotive with a snowplow near Zubtsov station

Delayed by a series of flash flood speed restrictions, Amtrak's Pennsylvanian crawls into the Greensburg station in the pouring rain.

A storm is brewing over the BNSF at Sterling as a coal train arrives on the mainline. BNSF 7329 catches a bit of brighter light, but it won't last for long as the thunder storm rolls through the c... (more)

Winter Storm Hercules dumped between 6 and 11 inches of snow on the greater New York City Area. As a result, New Jersey Transit downgraded service to an "enhanced weekend schedule" for the day. Th... (more)

Easing Through an Empty MC Yard

As a result of the midweek holiday the NYS&W only operated two road trains during the week as apposed to the usual three road trains. This resul... (more)

Delayed Road Freight in a Downpour

As a result of the road crew outlawing a few miles West of the iconic Newfoundland Station the SU-100 operated through the area in daylight a... (more)

It's a rainy fall day in the Pittsburgh area. The ditch lights on an eastbound light helper set highlight the damp roadbed as it passes the helpers on westbound 25Z in the tangent between Ardara a... (more)