Well it looks like the Jordan Spreader will only make 2 trips for the CN in Iowa this winter? Within 4 weeks all this snow would be gone with 50-60 degree weather that came in the 1st part of Marc... (more)

I asked 338's crew what the drifts look like east of Waterloo after the last winter storm. They said around Beth there were some small ones. With bitterly cold weather, drifted in roads, and near... (more)

A spring snowstorm blankets the Denver, Colorado, area as Union Pacific locomotives rest into the night of April 15, 2013, at UP’s former Rio Grande North Yard locomotive facility.

On January 30, 1996, after a major snowstorm, Wisconsin Central GP35 No. 4007 and a former Chicago & North Western GP7 are clearing the one-time C&NW/Fox River Valley Railroad line south of Campbe... (more)

Wisconsin Central plow flanger No. 302, pushed by WC EMD SDL39 No. 586, leaves Tesch, Michigan, in a stir of snow on December 28, 1996. The sign on the right is to warn plows that there is an impe... (more)

Wisconsin Central plow flanger No. 302 flanges the main line west of Hermansville, Michigan, on December 28, 1996. The snow isn’t deep enough to utilize the large wedge plow up front, but it is ... (more)

Crew of steam snow blower R # 12 and cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 4/4 # 704 of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (DFB) after the blower testrun above the Wiler bridge on the line to the Furka pass ne... (more)

Perhaps the last snow storm of spring frosts the ACe's waiting for service in the BNSF engine facility in Denver, Colorado.

For the first time in several decades, the R 12 steam snow blower was faced this day with solid snow compacted throughout the winter. This was a very hard task, may be a to big challenge. The Xrot... (more)

For the first time in several decades, the R 12 steam snow blower is faced with solid snow compacted throughout the winter. The Xrot d # 9212 or "R.12" had been built in 1913 for the main network ... (more)

Nearly every north facing surface is covered in snow, thanks to a spring snowstorm with high winds blowing wet, freezing snow through the BNSF engine servicing facility in Denver, Colorado.

A spring snow storm is blowing snow from the north, frosting the noses of BNSF 1652 (SD40-2) and 4158 (Dash9) at the engine servicing facility in Denver, Colorado.

Snow fighting in the gorge of the Furkareuss above the Wiler bridge on a grade of 11.0 % on the line of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke. The former Rhaetian Railway snow blower R 12 (Xrot d # 9212... (more)

Snow blowing test with the "Rotary" R 12 (Xrot d # 9212 former Rhaetian Railway, built in 1913) and cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 4/4 # 704 from 1923 above the Wiler bridge between Realp a... (more)

Hard snow fighting with rotary steam snow blower R 12, shoved by cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 4/4 # 704, above the Wiler bridge.