On A Cold Day At The Cassandra Railfan Overlook, NS Coal Drag 594 Thunders Up Hill With Two Big EMD SD80MAC's On The Point, This Was Also My First Time Seeing SD80MACs In All My Years Of Raillfann... (more)

A lone SD40E leads 72 cars of coal 15 miles down the winding Captina Secondary passing 1 of 3 Large "cuts" on the way to be off loaded into Barges on the Ohio River.

Nevada Northern 93 pulls the wrecking train out of the machine shop

As the temperatures continued to drop and snow began to accumulate atop the rail and surrounding ground, nearly uniform in length icicles have formed off the head of rail during this very cold day... (more)

As the Ice melts outside Norfolk Southern's Big Four No. 1 Tunnel, J55 exits the west portal on its way to Farm to push another train back east and over the Elkhorn Grade.

On the back roads of Pike County Kentucky, a loaded export coal train destined for Bluefield and points east along the N&W mainline glides downgrade on the Buchanan Branch in full dynamics. Approa... (more)

"Through the Grips of Old Man Winter:" A gray engine on a gray day...time to get creative! The eastbound Capitol Limited, lead by Engineer Garth Nasser, rolls through Brunswick, MD i... (more)

With the power in the house for the night, it's time to head home, get some warm socks on, and have a cold beer.

As a young lady looks on from the observation deck, trackage right CP train 38T delicately crosses the Portageville Trestle on the NS Southern Tier Line on a rather cold morning. This massive Erie... (more)

50 years ago D&RGW's eastbound freight led by Mikado 493 took water at Gato, Colo. between Durango and Chama on Dec. 19, 1963. It was the last winter D&RGW operated its narrow gauge lines, and th... (more)

Indiana & Ohio's CSX Interchange led by IORY 4084 is the first train to depart south from McCullough yard since an overnight storm dropped 3” of fresh powder. Temperatures have been frigid the p... (more)

The coal chute at Orbisonia waits for a tender to fill.

Brunswick, MD 11/30/2013 - The bitter cold of a 25 degree night has claimed the water draining from purposeful holes in the bottom of a loaded coal hopper waiting for its call to a power plant on ... (more)

As cold as ice ...