Standing guard at the E.E. Coal River Siding, the soon to be replaced C&O mast signal displays two red signals, just minutes before blacking out as a result of a power outage. The winds and lightn... (more)

Lightning over Coal River.. The westbound absolute at E.E. Coal River Siding displays a clear signal for an approaching loaded train, as a cold front to the north helps generate some severe thunde... (more)

Thunder over Palmer Lake
A Santa Fe GP20 on a weedsprayer train waits out a storm over Palmer Lake, Colorado. I don’t remember the exact exposure of this photo, but I set the lens to ... (more)

The results of warm air colliding with a cold front.. A mild 55 degree night has produced the right amount of energy for the development of severe thunderstorms across Kentucky and West Virginia. ... (more)

My one and only 'Leap Year' catch for the next 4 years... As thunderstorms approach from the west, the crew of NS J1A has just boarded their switcher, NS 7119 and will soon depart to the south for... (more)

Thunderstorms at a place long abandoned.. Handley served as a large terminal in the Chesapeake & Ohio steam era, connecting coal operations in the Kanawha Valley to operations in the New River Val... (more)

DME train 487 waits in the hole at Cobden, MN, for opposition not yet out of Tracy while lighting and thunderstorms rage over southern Minnesota

It's the first night of Train Festival 2011 in the Quad Cities as a pair of Amtrak heritage locomotives idle on a private varnish train from Chicago. Thunderstorms developed quickly this evening a... (more)

A thunderstorm in the C&O coalfields.. Displaying a stop signal at Indian, a bolt of lighting from an approaching storm cell lights up the night time sky.

With a thunderstorm building to the south, a pair of high hoods idle nose to nose on the head end of an NS rock train.

A thunderstorm that has blown in the from the east is sending reddish-colored lightning down to the ground right on top of the Sunset Route at the far eastern edge of Tucson. If memory serves me c... (more)

At the old station of Thessaloniki the storm its coming in a few minutes. The thunder was very gorgious

ANY 9624 and 9529 are yarded after the switch crew has built the ANY 610 Log and revenue train south bound for Boyle Alberta in the morning. The green haze in the background are the northern light... (more)