Downpour!

N&W No. 475 leads an excursion through the bucolic Amish countryside in Lancaster County, Pa, in the midst of a heavy downpour. Alas - this is the Strasburg Rail Road; ... (more)

After a heavy summer shower, NS 11Z departs the main track at Buena Vista as a double rainbow appears over top the mountain ridges

A thunderstorm has moved east over Canyon Ferry Lake and the Big Belt Mountains on the afternoon of July 7, 2021, as a BNSF coal train climbs the westbound grade of Winston Hill between Townsend a... (more)

UP 9051 West glides over Cienega Creek trying to escape storms

Cruising south at Hanging Rocks. With the relatively humidity essentially at 100%, clouds are forming along the ridgelines as the Potomac Eagle Scenic Railroad's excursion train makes its w... (more)

Rainbow on Mullan A Westbound Intermodal curves around the upper horseshoe of the Austin Loops and under a bright rainbow from a exiting storm. The MRL has been moving a increasing numbe... (more)

Under threatening skies late in the day, UP 4014 leads a short test train at Fort Lupton, CO, on the UP Greeley Sub, July 8, 2021.

Storm Light on 4014
Storms were firing all along 4014’s southern trip to Denver July 8th. Between Fort Luptin the opportunity to strike some of my favorite shots developed fo... (more)

Test Run 2021
Ed Dickens and crew roll into the warm light of a hot July evening south of Cheyenne on their way to Denver performing a test run.

Still sporting the iconic red and silver warbonnet paint scheme, BNSF 787 pulls a Los Angeles Harbor, CA to Logistic Park Chicago, IL stack train towards Crozier Canyon shortly after a brief rain ... (more)

A double rainbow adds color above a rear distributed power unit on a loaded ore train at Allouez yard in Superior.

CSX toured the entire state of Florida over three days with their repainted office car special, returning to Waycross after it was complete. Just before a downpour, the train is minutes away from... (more)

Beaming

Snow is glistening and filling the atmosphere on this late April 15th, 2021 near Leyden, Colorado. BNSF 6550 is leading a manifest into Arvada,

Storming Through the Meadows

Track speed on the high mountain meadows east of Rocky, Colorado Amtrak 6 is ducking below a rapidly developing severe thunderstorm cell abou... (more)

The arrival of the evening's #6 California Zephyr in the Colorado Rocky Mountains coincided with the beginning of a strong winter snow storm. Here Amtrak engine 23 (P42DC) runs through heavy snow... (more)