Union Pacific rotary snowplow No. 900082 is eastbound approaching a snowbound Sharon Springs, Kansas, on New Year’s day in 2007. Trains have been stranded there for several days, and this plow o... (more)

It is still snowing and dusk is approaching as Soo Line train No. 421 blasts west through Brookfield, Wisconsin, on February 25, 1994. Soo EMD SD60 No. 6014 on the point does the honors with snow ... (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)

Following Winter Storm "Nemo", operations on the New England Central Railroad were shut down through Saturday afternoon, when a 'Driftbuster' light engine move was dispatched out of St. Albans, Ve... (more)

Following Winter Storm "Nemo", operations on the New England Central Railroad were shut down through Saturday afternoon, when a 'Driftbuster' light engine move was dispatched out of St. Albans, Ve... (more)

Amtrak 280 plows through some crossing banks at Ferry Road, Stuyvesant, NY.

Providence & Worcester train MFS-9, a Department of Defense extra bound for the Electric Boat shipyard in Groton, CT, blasts through a snow pile at a grade crossing in Oxford, MA. The train is ca... (more)

Winter’s blue hour
Just after sunset, Union Pacific rotary snowplow No. 900082 heads east approaching Wallace, Kansas, on New Year’s Day 2007, during that magical time on a snowy wi... (more)

Union Pacific rotary snowplow No. 900082 is eastbound approaching a snowbound Sharon Springs, Kansas, on New Year’s day in 2007. Trains have been stranded there for several days, and this plow o... (more)

This is where a telephoto lens is a must. Although the flanger sign indicates the front blade of this snow dozer will lift to clear a crossing the hard packed snow chunks will still rain down far ... (more)

In an attempt to open its line from winter snows, Cumbres & Toltec Scenic operated a triple-header rotary snow plow train on May 3, 1997. Three mikados are shoving Rotary OY as they near the deep... (more)

An eastbound Conrail TV train (TV8M) cruises through the curve just west of Otis, Indiana, at 9:32 a.m. on January 15, 1994, creating a snowstorm of its own on this cold winter day.

Union Pacific rotary snowplow No. 900082 is eastbound out of Westkan, Kansas, and digs into drifts that cover the tracks on the way to a crew change at Sharon Springs on New Year’s day in 2007.

Union Pacific rotary snowplow No. 900082 is westbound out of Westkan, Kansas, and approaches a snow-clogged Sharon Springs on New Year’s day in 2007.

High plains drifter
After a very early blizzard in October 1997, the eastern plains of Colorado were heavily drifted with snow. Union Pacific found that it needed to call the Cheyenne-b... (more)