On this cool August morning TSBY Snow Plow #4502 sits in the yard at Cadillac waiting for another upcoming winter to get back to work.

A northbound rail train

BNSF B&B employees inspect this new bridge as the first train to use it crosses over. This is how the previous culvert looked after being washed out in June 2012 as viewed from the other side: htt... (more)

A crew from Hulcher has just competed setting the rear truck of this unit back on the rails after a minor derailment. The only visible damage was a slightly bent pilot.

Rotary 101. Here's a rear-quarter view of Nevada Northern's 1907-vintage Rotary Snow Plow B. It's a slightly different look at this classic piece of MOW equipment than you typically see, a... (more)

After getting the loaded coal car closer to the rail the crews went to a shorter cable and then moved the dozers to the tail end and dragged it right up to the rail still using PanAm MEC 613 to ... (more)

A last minute heads up and a warm and sunny Saturday made for a great chase over Vermont Rail System's Green Mountain Sub. VTR 202, lettered for subsidiary Washington County Railroad, shoves the V... (more)

This is the sight two days after the derailment of at least 6 loaded coal cars bound for Bow, NH. There are two cars off the rails (rails all ripped apart and up) and two more on the bridge wit... (more)

Rail maintainers work on a crossover while being surrounded by trains that are being built in the busy and dangerous Willard Terminal

Interstate's steam-powered derrick W50 is in the process of rerailing a Lehigh Valley hopper near Pine Branch, VA in the mid-'50s. In these more innocent times, there is only one hard hat to be se... (more)

After significant wet snow accumulations piled up in the Green Mountains this week, Vermont Rail System dispatched a Thursday plow extra out of Bellows Falls, Vermont with the LLPX GP38-2 2334 pus... (more)

Snow blowing action in the highest station of the Rhaetian Railway on 2253 meter a.s.l. In a large cloud of whirled up powder, "The beast" (in local italian called "La Bestia") X rot mt # 95404 is... (more)

There is a lot of activity this day in the BNSF engine shop yard, including an outgoing Amtrak from Denver Union Station passing a rusting SD40-2 , a GREX self propelled slot getting ready to head... (more)

In the "blue hour" at 6.48 AM the snow fighting crew from Poschiavo is reaching Alp Grüm on 2091 meter a.s.l. Snowblower X rot mt 95404 is shoved by dual power (diesel and electric 1000 V DC) loc... (more)

It sure would be nice for this rotary to see some action before winter is through. Our last major snowfall a week and a half ago brought it out of Northtown to Willmar in anticipation of plowing ... (more)