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)

A Global 4 to City of Industries, CA, hot Z-train crosses over at Ethel around couple slow pokes as they work west on the Marceline Sub. A crazy April snow storm has coated everything, I cant even... (more)

Under a threatening sky, a Montana Rail Link ballast train approaches the loader at Spire Rock, Montana, on October 3, 2022. A pair of MRL’s EMD SD70ACes power the train that is running on a por... (more)

The westbound Willow Springs to San Bernardino Z-train has some room to roam now. The dispatcher has them and the UP G4 Z-train over to main # 2 here at Ethel to round up 2 slower trains before Ma... (more)

Pair of old dash 9's are working hard to get back up to speed and pull the grade thru West Ethel. The sand train ahead of them had to slow up for a train in emergency. The snow is falling pretty h... (more)

Under some intense storm lighting, BNSF 6652 West is seen passing the Santa Fe Depot in downtown Kingman with an intermodal train on an October afternoon.

As the approaching weather was about to make our decision for us when to wrap up our day in Kingman Canyon, we had one more Eastbound train approaching on the higher elevation track. A correct-fac... (more)

As the clouds seemed to be following West, we decided to stay with this intermodal train we shot at Pica. We lensed him again at Peach Springs, Crozier, Hackberry, and just East of Kingman. Since ... (more)

A BNSF intermodal train is seen at West Winslow as monsoons in New Mexico and Eastern Arizona create beautiful storm lighting. The next day storms would cause a washout just West of Gallup closing... (more)

A Westbound domestic intermodal train is seen snaking West through the Painted Desert moving into Holbrook, Arizona. After a long hike in, we watched the clouds go in and out many times. We knew w... (more)

The Great Lakes Central's OSTN arrives in Howell, Michigan on a rainy October evening, pounding the diamond with CSX's Plymouth Sub and rolling past a set of searchlight signals after dropping the... (more)

Milwaukee Road 261 brings the train into Glencoe. Despite the rain, many folks were out to view the locomotive in action. On another note, the Milwaukee Road depot here still stands, which serves ... (more)

The day 1 2022 Gourmet Express had a pretty wet day but a tiny bit of sun provided this backdrop.