A rare morning thunderstorm, currently over the City of Boulder, creates some amazing contrast in the sky as partly cloudy skies dominate to the east over the plains. Under the unusual skies, we f... (more)

A grain train rolls east down the BNSF Clovis Subdivision as a thunderstorm moves across the distant sky in Bodega, New Mexico.

Fresh Paint Westbound 5 climbs the tunnel district at Crescent, CO with 164’s first run with new Heritage Paint.

The conductor minds the first of two cattle gates that the Harrison local negotiates as it approaches it's namesake destination. A wintry mix approaches from the mountains.

California has been inundated with rain from with Atmospheric Rivers coming across the Pacific Ocean this Winter. A large storm cell dumps rain on Ventura and along the Coastal Mountains as the ea... (more)

As a light snow falls in Carlin Canyon the daylight inspired red and orange of Southern Pacific heritage locomotive #1996 adds some color to the wintery scene.

Pikes Peak Subdivision Northbound headed through Greenland under the Palmer Divide with his majesty Pikes Peak in full snow and sun.

Frosted Delight Thickest Hoar Frost in years layer’s everything under the foot hills at Coal Creek Canyon.

M583 eases down the Southern slope of Cumberland Mountain with a veteran widecab GE leading the charge.

A quartet of ex-Chicago Northwestern C40-8's shove to Missabe Junction with limestone loads for US Steel's Minntac Mine. Interlake Steamship Co's "James R. Barker" sits backed onto Dock ... (more)

For nearly 20 years I have had a fascination for the bridges on Donner Pass and snow removal. I havent been to Donner much over the past 10 years, and only once in the summer since I have had a dr... (more)

On a late July afternoon the sun peaks through the breaking monsoon clouds as an Eastbound stack train climbs out of Seligman, AZ.

The "Black Friday" edition of CCH's Mahrt Turn rolls down 9th Street, departing Columbus, GA, for the WestRock paper mill in Cottonton, AL, with 4 locos and 67 cars. This is usually a nocturnal op... (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)

After the passing of a brief rainstorm, a northbound BNSF coal empty cruises over the top of Logan Hill under a nice-looking rainbow in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin on June 24, 2022.