A close lightning strike flashes above the Union Pacific depot in Altoona, Wisconsin as yard power hunkers down in the yard waiting out the thunderstorm's heavy rains and wind bursts.

Canadian Pacific 9704 leads empty well cars up the River Sub through a snow storm just north of Minnesota City.

An inbound Metra passenger train flies towards Chicago Union Station as a low cloud base hangs just above the downtown skyline including Trump Tower. The train is just in the outskirts of downtown... (more)

Two lone switchers sit engulfed by the steel structures around the Twin Ports. The structure on the right is used for loading grain into ships with the Blatnik Bridge in the background.

A BNSF train glides over the Prescott lift bridge over an empty boat dock on an almost eerily calm St. Croix River with a mirror like surface.

A coal train can be seen lighting a path through the heart of Kansas City.

A very thick early morning fog engulfs everything in sight in a blanket of white. The red flashing and ringing crossing lights were the only indication that this Triple Crown Roadrailer train was ... (more)

The lights of the Altoona yard eerily light a set of locomotives from the very dark night that covers the rest of the yard. The EOT can be seen at the other end of the yard from a departing train.

An Amtrak passenger train streaks towards the Chicago skyline and Union Station.

How many modes of transportation do you see? Vehicles including cabs and a bus, bike, rail, and feet. One of the approaches to O'Hare actually comes over the area as well but no planes in this pho... (more)

The BNSF LaCrosse local flies up the St. Croix Sub as a strong winter storm has the county and local snow plows out in force trying to keep up with this storm.

A Union Pacific MOW worker cuts a piece of stick rail just outside the Altoona yard so that the new welded rail can be spliced in for the night before work resumes again the next day.

Wheel sets are stacked in the Proctor yard along with many ore cars, some which are in for repairs and many more I am sure will be scrap.

Four Union Pacific locomotives pull their train across the Robert Street lift bridge as the setting sun paints the sky in gorgeous shades of color on a bitterly cold below zero day.

The view from inside a Wisconsin Northern GP15 with Engineer John bring his train north through New Auburn, Wisconsin.