Northbound on the running track at Sparta, IC 6253 pushes snow as the northbound trek from Two Harbors to U.S. Steel Minntac at Mountain Iron continues while heavy snow persists.

In Wyoming’s rugged Wind River Canyon, BNSF’s Denver to Laurel freight approaches the siding of Minnesela located south of Thermopolis on June 24, 2018.

Three brand-new Missouri Pacific EMD SD50 locomotives power a coal train at Dupo, Illinois, in December 1984. Dupo is located south of St. Louis on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River.

CSX O806 has stopped so that the conductor can throw the switch before entering the Welcome Yard Secondary Track.

Two elephant style ACes lug a loaded coal drag up grade into the small town of Sedalia on the Colorado Joint Line.

A trio of veteran second generation EMDs shove Taconite loads onto CN's Dock 6 for dumping in evening light in Duluth, MN.

2009 was a snowy winter. Due to fresh snow and poor road conditions, chasing this NBEC train was sketchy at best. Roughly 15 miles out of Gordon Yard in Moncton, train 403 heads West.

Central Maine & Quebec 9014 West breaks the morning silence as it is approaching Brookport. Note the snow making guns in action at Ski Bromont in the background.

A pair of CN SD40-2Ws wait out the snow storm in the Fraser Canyon near the Hope depot. At this moment, nature is winning, but within the next day things will start to get back to normal.

A westbound Southern Pacific freight follows the Arkansas River just west of Cotopaxi, Colorado, on Rio Grande’s original mainline route through the Royal Gorge and over Tennessee Pass on Septem... (more)

On May 22, 2014, two strings of Union Pacific EMD SD9043MACs are stored in the yard at Missouri Valley, Iowa, waiting out an uncertain fate.

Workers on the fuel track go about their business, even though the snow is really coming down on April 15, 2013, at Union Pacific’s North yard in Denver, Colorado.

A westbound Union Pacific passenger train passes through colorful Red Canyon just after crossing the Colorado River between Dell and Range, Colorado, on August 3, 2014. This location is on the Dot... (more)

A sign of change has a CP 40 type leading a short manifest north on the former DME/ICE Owatonna Sub in Northern Iowa.

Patriotic Pair

When I landed at O’Hare today to spend a few days on a work assignment in Chicago, I checked my phone and saw that UP 4141 was on display at Proviso. I arrived to ... (more)