Downtown Downpour | Running light, Arkansas & Missouri engines 68 and 44 roll through downtown Rogers, AR in a heavy rainfall around 3 o'clock in the morning on Saturday, November 9, 2024. ... (more)

Storm light layer cake. Out in Wyoming, they not only have big land but big skies too. Mind-blowingly big to this eastern boy. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I am sure glad I squeezed the s... (more)

A rapidly moving winter storm is moving eastward across the Mojave Desert. Dramatic clouds were forming just as quickly as the sun would start to set behind them. The potential of dramatic lightin... (more)

Clawing under storm’s edge
We were on Peru Hill west of Green River, Wyoming, on the afternoon of June 22, 2023, when the nice weather began to change as thunderstorms moved in from t... (more)

Early spring weather rolls eastward from the Medicine Bow Mountain Range and streams over Wyoming’s Sherman Hill with gray clouds on March 25, 2008. A momentary and serendipitous break in the cl... (more)

On the afternoon of July 6, 2023, Montana Rail Link’s Helena local hauls eleven cars downgrade out of Winston for the lime plant at Townsend, Montana. It’s raining, but I still shot the local ... (more)

Staying ahead of the storm
An eastbound Union Pacific manifest freight train drops downgrade at milepost 823 on Peru Hill, Wyoming, momentarily staying ahead of a storm approaching from... (more)

A pair of dash 9s take a grain empty west on the Wayzata Sub in Dassel, a storm looms overhead.

An EMD and GE motor pull a Laurel, MT to Denver, CO manifest off of the shelf between Crest and Roggen as summer thunderstorms rolls through in the background.

UP Grain train, Westbound just before sunset, a lightning show was going on in the storm moving East in the background

A grain train rolls east down the BNSF Clovis Subdivision as a thunderstorm moves across the distant sky in Bodega, New Mexico.

After the passing of a brief rainstorm, a northbound BNSF coal empty cruises over the top of Logan Hill under a nice-looking rainbow in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin on June 24, 2022.

At the end of a perfect day, a rainbow encircles a Montana Rail Link helper set trundling eastward at Austin, Montana, after helping a BNSF grain train over Mullan Pass on July 5, 2021.

Distant clouds glow in the final light of the evening as a Northbound BNSF mixed freight approaches the small town of Fordland.

Storm clouds from a monsoon form over Antares, AZ as an eastbound stack train (Q LACLPC6) grinds up the grade out of Kingman under a double rainbow. This was a sight to see as 2020 have been a dry... (more)