Yep Houston, we have a problem! L572 is stuck at MP 408 on the Omaha Sub, couple miles east of Yetter, IA. Big drifts and bad power cause this train to become stuck. Took contractors about 12 hour... (more)

Conductor Cook- Far away from punching tickets on Penn Central to Metro North commuter trains into Grand Central, Conductor Cook has been there and done that. 2 years before retirement, he braves ... (more)

Deep in the trenches, the battle rages. On Day 2 of their 4-day mission to clear the line, the White Pass Snow Team attacks the worst of the snow pack, in a deep cut called Canadian Shed, a... (more)

An October snow storm has hammered Colorado over night bringing over 8 - 12 inches of snow in most areas. Here, we see the daily Denver, CO to Laurel, MT Manifest train that is departing Longmont ... (more)

Danger Close! On the second day of the 2011 White Pass Rotary run, I stand with half a dozen other photographers atop a rocky bluff, overlooking a deep cut called Canadian Shed. Once the ... (more)

TRAINS Magazine 2011 Grand Prize Photo Contest Winner. The view of a falling snowflake. A heavy January snow fall blankets the area in snow while Union Pacific MSSPR makes a set out in Altoona,... (more)

The Union Pacific local job headed up the Chippewa Falls Sub a couple days after a blizzard dropped 21 inches of snow on the area. LLPX 2205 moves along as it busts through snow banks Chippewa Fal... (more)

Soo Line 4410 leads the local through a blizzard of snow as it heads down the yard track to the Wabasha, Minnesota yard office. Local residents try to keep up with the snowfall as the snowblow dur... (more)

A late evening train 912 powered by a pair of SD40's, 749 and 744 sift through fresh powder and a snow squall as they hurry east.

Snow Fleet - 1940s style! - In fact were it not for the "modern" #73 steam locomotive pushing this could be titled "1920s style." White Pass and Yukon Railway narrow gauge rotary plow #3 (... (more)

The lead spreder wide winging through the s curve between the Norden shed and the Soda Springs grade crossing.

GP38-2's working hard while the crew battles low visibility.

Clearing the switch for the balloon at Fulda. Not much fun!

Extreme snow fighting is BACK on The Hill! After a 13 year hiatus (not counting the March 2007 "training" run), Union Pacific was finally forced to bring out the SP Rotaries the last week of March... (more)

About an hour into its second trip over Donner finds the SPMW 209 cleaning up the leftovers of an Eastbound Spreader set up Main #1. This single Rotary set included the SPMW 8208 "snail" for elect... (more)