Winter is a blast! With 6 - 8" of fresh snow since the last train passed by yesterday, today's 451 has his work cut out for him but was maintaining track speed as it blasted up to Martins. ... (more)

"Washing the pebbles" as the conductor put it. This ballast train is rinsing its load before being sent out for duty in order to cut down on dust clouds when dumped along the right of way.

Agent Orange anyone, I'm sure it wasn't that bad by this date. This Milwaukee defoliant special was stopped on the westbound main near New Lisbon being powered by 647. As I got into position for t... (more)

Pushing snow at Otterdale, stopping to PK CN Q107 with GTW 5949, CN 2108, CN 2448! This is the machine I operate for the winter months on CN, keeping the trains a moving!

A couple of CN M.O.W. employees work to clear snow across the Ramshaw diamond on the last day of 2013. The Hi-Rail Blower, appropriately named Air Forced 1, is pretty loud and fairly effective i... (more)

The Loram track grinds another location on the Pumpkin Vine.

It's always fun to watch and listen to some of the impressive machinery railroad use to keep the freight moving in a safe and timely manner. Loram has made a successful business by building, oper... (more)

This beast of a machine has been at work along the Mohawk Subdivision and is currently tied down in the Fonda Yard. The ballast cleaner is used to break up pockets of mud that can cause poor drain... (more)

Rio Grande Spreader 052 awaits the need to remove snow between switches in the old D&RGW yard at Alamosa, Colorado. It was rebuilt at Burnham from a wood frame flanger in 1941.

A crane builds the railroad back up after a nasty derailment wiped out a good deal of the track.

Preheating the Rail - BNSF MOW (Maintenance of Way) workers use an Oxy-Acetylene torch to preheat the ends to two adjoining sections of 136lb. rail in preparation to welding them together... (more)

Cutoff - A BNSF MOW (Maintenance of Way) worker uses a hydraulic cutoff saw to cut a one inch gap between the ends of two 136 lb. rail sections at the Fullerton Train Station. The rai... (more)

Shearing the Excess - A BNSF MOW (Maintenance of Way) worker uses a hydraulic shear to remove excess iron from a molten weld produced from a Thermite reaction.

A wreck on the River Line shut the entire line down on January 27, 1979. What looks like a snow covered path in front of the auto carrier is actually the ROW. The tracks have been removed as part ... (more)

A UP Section Gang performs a rope burn on a section of rail on a siding in the yard at La Salle, CO. One of the worker swings a sledge hammer on the rail to place it back into position.