A mid-summer severe thunderstorm associated with a major cold front terrioizes the small town of Nitro as it tears through the Kanawha Valley with heavy rains, thunder, and an impressive lightning... (more)

Southbound FEC train 107 has just cleared the south end of the Palm Bay siding as a severe thunderstorm approaches. Five different lightning strikes from this very intense storm are shown in this ... (more)

With dark clouds and storms surrounding Lombard, Montana, on the afternoon of June 17, 2014, a BNSF coal train snakes along the Missouri River in scenic Lombard Canyon on Montana Rail Link’s Sec... (more)

Last night while out storm chasing I happened upon a coal train sitting in the Stowe yard overnight. NS1019 was in perfect line from the storms moving in from the west. After dozens of shots I was... (more)

Thunderstorm rolled to the North while I was out shooting trains last night. Captured this shot of lightning from the Norfolk Southern Reading Yard last night. Photo by Shawn A Leightcap

The rain clouds have rolled in as a post BNSF merger lash up leads this Tacoma, WA bound stack train north into Fort Collins, Colorado.

Under threatening skies, BNSF 6430 leads coal loads upgrade on the Joint Line toward the summit at Palmer Lake.

Stormy skies broke for an instant to witness the passage of empty GrainCorp train #3333N with a quartet of Goodwin/Alco DL531's.

Steam under dark skies. With dark clouds looming overhead from a nearby thunderstorm, Grand Canyon Railway 4960 drifts downgrade through the crossing at Coconino, Milepost 59.

A northbound empty coal train gets a little bit of sunshine as they get out of a thunderstorm that is dumping rain and hail to the south in near the Denver area.

Mammatus clouds boil overhead as a partial rainbow appears in the sun break behind a thunderstorm as SW 2601 and their interchange train to the BNSF at Boise City, OK sits tied down for the day ea... (more)

At the 1990 NRHS Convention in St. Louis, TRAINS Magazine had a special and private photo staged in the afternoon where all four participating steam locomotives would be lined up for its staffers.... (more)

Wearing CN's 15th anniversary scheme, C40-8s 2112 and 2107 hustle an empty crude ore train back to Largo for another load from the Thunderbird Mine. While the storm lighting provided a cool shot, ... (more)

Storm lighting, Becks Hot Springs, a rainbow, and 'Golden Hour' lighting create plenty of drama for the arrival of UP's Ogden to Salt Lake City intermodal on Sept. 12, 2013.

A double rainbow welcomes UP's Wendover Local to Salt Lake City on Sept. 12, 2013.