Union Pacific's flanger set has just finished a run over Donner pass and has returned to the Snowfighters home base in Truckee.

Nevada Northern 109 has just been fired up for some switching, and the 244-D prime mover is trying to warm up in the 20 degree air.

Coors Brewery's #998 (EMD SW1001) shoves a load of hops back to the brewery in the specially designed hopper cars.

CNW 6847 sits on display all decked out for Christmas.

After dropping off empties at Camp A Reload, the crew from Beaver Cove are seen running lite to Siding 4 to pick up loads that were left by the Woss crew earlier in the morning.

BUGX (Bruggere & Monson) #1568 trails on a short Galesburg, IL to Barstow, CA manifest as it exist Crozier Canyon, Oct. 29, 2020. The SW1500 switcher was built in July of 1972 for the Southern Pac... (more)

2426 & 2408 stabled at Benson

Seven retired Amtrak AEM-7s sit on track 10 in New York Penn Station during a crew change during their trip from Hudson Yard in Harrison, NJ, to Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven, CT. This gave railroa... (more)

MPEX 6201, the sole MP2000C in existence, sits coupled to a few other rarities on the long-term storage track outside Motive Power in Boise, as a major storm rolls into the area. MPI recently anno... (more)

UPY 139 sitting at the North End of Settegast Yard waiting to be scrapped

Apparently the Ex-Conrail GP8 at the grain elevator in Tamora, Nebraska needed a little help building air. The folks at the Co-Op strapped an air compressor up on the front pilot.

2010 and 2011 were disappointing winters for me in terms of my typical Donner trips. In 2012 I was stationed at Langley AFB and I was blessed with the birth of my two sons in that time. All of the... (more)

Small power for a big road. Santa Fe GE 44-ton switcher 467 didn’t have drawbars but rather steel plates for shoving 2-axle buggies of green cross ties into pressurized creosote cylinders at t... (more)

An Erie Mining Company RS-11 with a not-so-pretty chopped nose is awaiting it's turn to bring a load of iron ore to the processing plant.