A trio of Dash 8's running north on the CN Iron Range Sub coming back from Two Harbors, MN to load more taconite pellets.

A heavy spring snowstorm doesn’t impede the westward progress of a Union Pacific stack train leaving Cheyenne at Borie, Wyoming on April 29, 2019.

The heavy wet snow has tapered off a bit as CN 2010 makes the return trip back to Two Harbors, MN.

The last blizzard of 2019 brought strong winds to the Colorado Front Range, making the wind chill dip below zero in many places. While the snow impacted auto travel, rail traffic remained steady ... (more)

Under less than ideal conditions weather-wise, CN 2006 is pulling empties back from Two Harbors, MN for U.S. Steel to load fresh made taconite pellets.

The Colorado Front Range was socked with a strong blizzard, with sub-freezing temperatures and strong winds creating nearly whiteout conditions. BNSF 9094 (SD70ACe) runs head-first into the howlin... (more)

A nice pair of CN SD60s shove wedge plow WC 300 (ex-Soo Line/WC) along the Stinson Subdivision (former Soo) in Superior.

BNSF uses one of their ex-GN snow dozers to clear Mikes Yard in West Duluth after a heavy snow. BNSF 2051 is former Milwaukee Road GP40 2011.

A Union Pacific Grand Junction - Denver,CO manifest emerges from tunnel 5 on its descent through the heart of the famed D&RGW Tunnel District in the midst of a heavy snow storm on April 10th, 2019... (more)

Union Pacific’s Big Boy 4014 is in the middle of a pre-Thanksgiving blizzard and a foot of snow in the Denver area as it treads eastward on the former Rio Grande Belt Line at Washington Street o... (more)

Snaking through a rock cut and past snow-covered evergreens, a westbound Union Pacific coal train led by three EMD SD9043MACs approaches Crescent on a very wet April 23, 1999. Merry Christmas ever... (more)

CP 2260 dashes through the snow as it leads CP D45 through Ballston Spa past the old station (behind the photograph)

Snow blower XTm # 102 of the SBB is clearing track 2 in Airolo on a beautiful winter morning. The SBB had 9 of this small 200 Hp snow blowers, built in 1968, with 45 km/h max velocity, about 5 are... (more)

Snow blower XTm # 102 of the SBB is clearing track 2 in Airolo on a beautiful winter morning. The SBB had 9 of this small 200 Hp snow blowers, built in 1968, with 45 km/h max velocity.

I don't know whether there was a special group on board or the crew was just feeling festive, but this edition of the Boston section of Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited saluted the Christmas season as ... (more)