Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 201 rests on the pass-through track from the turntable as a shop employee walks between the two roundhouse buildings at the locomotive facility of Wisconsin Centra... (more)

West of Flagg, Illinois, on a cold February 13, 1994, is a westbound Chicago & North Western piggyback train led by C&NW EMD SD40-2 No. 6901, Soo Line EMD SD60 No. 6053 and C&NW EMD GP50 No. 5078.

On a snowy March 3, 1988, a trio of Burlington Northern EMD SD40-2s pull a westbound intermodal train downgrade on the west slope of Marias Pass east of Java, Montana.

Raising is own rooster tail of blowing snow is an eastbound Burlington Northern freight at Grizzly, Montana, beneath the towering peaks of Glacier National Park on March 3, 1989. The train is led ... (more)

As a 2-car passenger train heads toward Chicago, a Rock Island NW2 brings a cut of cars out of the south end of Burr Oak Yard. Tom Golden photo.

Icicles, Blue Hour, and Snow

Snow flakes glisten in the headlight beam of #491 while taking water at the tank. Nearly a foot of snow fell on this day, just right for some shots... (more)

Union Pacific 2-8-0 No. 618 pulls a short freight train toward Heber, Utah, on the crisp morning of February 7, 2006. This winter photo freight was operated by the Heber Valley Railroad.

After crossing Utah’s Soldier Summit, an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest freight, powered by a quartet of GE C44-9Ws, passes a discarded old Ford Truck as it approaches Helper Ya... (more)

46115 Scots Guardsman crawls onto Ribblehead viaduct with the return Dalesman from Carlisle

Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr winds its way through snow-covered evergreen trees at Crescent, Colorado, on the snowy morning of March 27, 2009.

CSX Q62022 heads south.

During the MBTA's short-lived service extension to Gardner, MA, GP9 1925 (ex-BN/NP) leads a train of depowered RDCs making the turn back to Boston. Note that the first two Budds are ex-CP cars al... (more)

Roseville bound tonnage emerges from the Norden shed, led by a 'Sierra 5200', with a classic SP signal bridge framing the snowy scene. At the time the searchlight installations at Norden were (and... (more)

Every surface is covered with frost and ice as Wisconsin Central train 39, powered by lone EMD SD45 No. 6521, switches cars at Hermansville, Michigan, on December 28, 1996.