With only about three BNSF trackage rights trains running each way a week, between Provo, Utah and Stockton California. When I learned this guy was heading west at a good time of day, I really wan... (more)

Storming Through the Meadows

Track speed on the high mountain meadows east of Rocky, Colorado Amtrak 6 is ducking below a rapidly developing severe thunderstorm cell abou... (more)

During a Montana snowstorm, BNSF GE ET44C4 No. 3943 leads an eastbound unit oil train across the Clark Fork on Bridge 57 west of Trout Creek. Interesting that the buffer car, along with the one ag... (more)

Amtrak engine 23 (P42DC) leads the California Zephyr #6 out of Tunnel 29 during an intense snow storm and continues its decent down the Colorado Rocky Mountains while heading to Denver.

The arrival of the evening's #6 California Zephyr in the Colorado Rocky Mountains coincided with the beginning of a strong winter snow storm. Here Amtrak engine 23 (P42DC) runs through heavy snow... (more)

Under a stormy sky, Montana Rail Link’s Bozeman turn curves along the Yellowstone River leaving Columbus, Montana. MRL EMD SD45 No. 355 and SD40-2XR No. 252 power the westbound local on the afte... (more)

346 in Snow

The heavy snow has just begun to fall as the Colorado Railroad Museum finishes the day’s operations with the venerable Denver & Rio Grande Western 346. A fe... (more)

Steam, Snow, and Steel

The heavy snow has just begun to fall as the Colorado Railroad Museum finishes the day’s operations with the venerable Denver & Rio Grande Wester... (more)

UP 5269 slowly makes its way east past the old water tank at Orchard. They are running at a restricted speed due to high winds generated from this summer thunderstorm.

It's a rainy Sunday morning in Huntingdon, PA as yet another manifest comes highballing through town with 144 cars, Conway-bound.

This was the moment that the California Zephyr led by Amtrak engine 19 (P42DC) blasted through a four foot snow drift during the massive March 14th Snowmageddon snowstorm. The explosion of snow c... (more)

The March blizzard included sustained winds of 30-40 mph, blowing the wet snow in a horizontal direction and coating anything metal with a layer of ice and snow.

The massive winter storm is coated the Denver Leadville & Gunnison 191 (2-8-0) locomotive with a blanket of white snow, accentuating the curves of the boiler and the Congdon stack.

"Traverso" train RABe 526 # 107/#207 of the Südostbahn (SOB), running as Interregio 2316 of the line IR 26 from Bellinzona over the Gotthard mountain line to Lucerne-Olten-Basel, is ent... (more)

The lone DP motor shoves the rear of a Barstow, CA to Tulsa, OK manifest train through Park Moabi as a thunder storm hits the Mohave Valley area.