A fresh blanket of snow covers the scene that fell overnight as more snow continues to fall. Seen here, three of four UP SD70ACe and AH's take coal empties west up the 2-percent grade at Pineclif... (more)

Snow is coming down hard as Halifax-Montreal VIA Rail Ocean is crossing the Richelieu River with a full Budd stainless steel consist.

Dropping down Donner Pass at the famed Yuba Gap, passengers aboard the Westbound California Zephyr must be enjoying the views of freshly fallen snow...

Christmas cheer lights up a dreary evening on Stevens Pass as a BNSF stack train rolls through Skykomish, WA toward Seattle. Inclement weather closed neighboring Snoqualmie Pass for part of the da... (more)

Winter is definitely making its presence known as UP 1972 sits under the blanketing snow on this cold November night.

In extreme blizzard conditions, an eastbound BNSF stack train leaves the mountains of Glacier National Park behind as it fights a crosswind coming through Grizzly, Montana, on December 22, 2007.

3 MACs and GP40 lead a northbound train of sand along Turnagain Arm at MP 95 on a blustery winters day.

I arrived at Harriman just as the train arrived and this was a real grab shot. But it has a dramatic quality that perhaps offsets the considerable technical faults. I had taken a previous shot ar... (more)

Almost as it was in the summer time, a strong downpour comes out of nowhere as FEC 101 is starting its southbound run to Miami. Those are some big drops in the beams of the headlights and the stea... (more)

A clash of seasons
An early autumn snowfall in the higher elevations of Mullan Pass surrounds Austin Creek Trestle (a.k.a. Skyline Trestle) at Skyline, Montana, on October 11, 1997. Low... (more)

Storm clouds brew to the northwest as an eastbound Cimarron Valley freight train begins its day at Satanta, KS on Sept. 15, 2014. Power is sister railroad, Southwestern B39-8 No. 8501 and two Cim... (more)

With severe storms approaching from the west, a BNSF coal train negotiates the tight curve in Lombard Canyon west of Lombard, Montana, on June 20, 2014. Shortly after this photograph, we were chas... (more)

Climbing into Harrison
Horses try to keep a driving rain out of their faces as Montana Rail Link’s 844 local climbs the 2.2 percent mountain grade into Harrison, Montana, over this sc... (more)

A massive late spring storm covering several states temporarily gives a break to a few rays of sunshine as a westbound export coal train glides along the banks of Missouri River. This storm will b... (more)

I believe this is the train to Charlottetown, PEI via the ferry waiting to depart Moncton. I had arrived shortly before on the Budd car from Saint John, and was waiting to catch the Ocean to Mont... (more)