A westbound Utah Railway coal train storms over the top of the grade at Soldier Summit, Utah, on February 1, 2007. The train is led by a quartet of unique EMD/MK50-3 locomotives.

The dance between seasons as snow falls while the colors of fall hang on.

Heavy snow continuous to hammer the northern slope of the Palmer Divide as a heavy 124 car coal load battles the steep grade, and wet rails, at Greenland, CO.

Coal from the Rawhide Mine in Wyoming's Powder River Basin battles the steep grade of Palmer Lake as this 17,000 ton train approaches "the sag" at Spruce, CO.

BNSF 9002 pulls 124 car Rawhide Mine, WY to Donnie (Headwaters Power Plant), TX coal train over the 7200' high Palmer Divide at Palmer Lake, CO during a late October snow storm.

The conductor of a southbound local freight checks for defects on a northbound hot shot on a cold Winter night.

Two SD70ACe's power a loaded coal train across the Powder River Basin as a severe thunderstorm rumbles to the west.

Thunder claps in the distance from a storm that just slammed Noxon with heavy rain while an eastbound “super train” rolls towards Missoula.

MRL 263 and company fly west with the short LAUBOZ on the drawbars while a severe storm in Eastern Montana builds in the distance.

A summer thunderstorm produces a rainbow that frames BNSF 7609 (ES44DC) as it meets the westbound Z Train on the Brush Sub in Roggen, Colorado.

During the afternoon’s downpours in the Chicagoland area, L CHI1051 25A winds it’s way through the Des Planes River valley while there are still fall colors on the trees. Bluebonnet SD40-2 175... (more)

Under a threatening sky,66079 catches the early morning sun approaching Keenes Crossing with a Margam to Round Oak working.

PTC enforcements are never good (from a crews perspective) but a glitch overspeed enforcement just around the corner bought us enough time for the sun to come out, revealing a rainbow above the DM... (more)

Punching the Core on the High Plains Chicago to Denver Z punched through the core of slow moving severe thunderstorms near Roggen from severe storms leaving heavy rain and hail over Cr... (more)

Light power to pull Lakehead pulls down the Hole Track while DMIR 408 and two sisters spot empties high above on Dock 6. The sun was out for a cumulative of 15 seconds in the few minutes I was on ... (more)