Southbound at Shick. AVE. on a snowy day.

Soo Line EMD SD40 No. 744 leads train No. 498 through Brookfield, Wisconsin, on a snowy January 25, 1990.

WB grainer roars into the snow.

The temperature is only a few degrees above zero as a southbound manifest departs Klamath Falls. Over two years after SP has been acquired by UP, little change has come to the Shasta Route.

CN 2928 & CN 3004 lead grain train CN 874 around a curve as it slows down for a crew change at Turcot West.

An westbound BNSF train is stopped at East Portal waiting for their turn to go thru the Moffat Tunnel. The tunnel has to vented after each train to clear out the exhausted since the tunnel is so l... (more)

Snow is coming down pretty heavy in the higher elevations as this Denver to Salt Lake freight train fights the weather and the grade towards Moffat Tunnel. The train is seen here just down from Cl... (more)

The silence is broken by the sound of T08's horn as a trio of GP20C-ECO's and a GP38-2 head through Claremount with a hefty train in tow.

Hit the Bricks

Geometry train 906, with NS 34 'The Brick' tucked in 3 of 4, putters thru Summerhill in a thick snow shower.

The eastbound Havelock job ducks under the CN York Subdivision with 55 cars on the drawbar.

It’s nearing the end of the blue hour on December 3, 1990, when an eastbound Soo Line freight thunders through Brookfield, Wisconsin, in the middle of a snowstorm. Soon, greater darkness will en... (more)

BNSF 8036 kicks up snow as it heads Northbound on Main #2 through light snow showers. In the foreground is a Southbound loaded coal train that is waiting in the 'sag'.

Espee's first rebuilt SD45T-2 arrives at Black Butte in June 1986. The train will take a left turn at the crossovers ahead and proceed up the Siskiyou Line to Medford.

A Roger Puta Photograph

Snowplow SM7 clean tracks at the Yekaterinburg station.