Mother Nature is reminding us that there are many sides to her moods. Bound for NYC, Amtrak Adirondack is kicking up quite a bit of snow as it rolls south toward the border.

An eastbound Keystone tries to outrun its own wake as it flies through Princeton Junction.

The railroad keeps moving even in the worst of weather. A large blizzard has just finally passed the area after dumping over a foot of snow the night before. Two Soo Line GP38-2s bring the local b... (more)

Just after sun-down, with rain falling an UP mixed freight is working westbound deep in the Blues. The headlights of this GE C44ACTE are lighting up the forest. making for an unique low light i... (more)

Let it Snow! An early December snowfall blankets Helmstetters Curve.

A museum piece. Red signals barely visible against the red Eastern Washington sky. For the engineer of BNSF 7531, reds, blues, and blacks are broken from the light of an oncoming manifest w... (more)

The light at the end of the tunnel is, in fact, an approaching train: In less than a second, a westbound will emerge from the darkness of Cascade Tunnel into the gloom of a twilit evening. The h... (more)

Western Maryland Carl Franz photo Freight at it crosses over the Potomac River in some really serious pea soup thick fog. Photo taken from high atop Wills Mountain

The dense, cold fog still hangs on through most of the morning in Pittsburgh, including here in West Park. Oddly enough, at just a mile or so south there was nothing but blue skies and full sun. ... (more)

A pair of SD70M-2s speed east at track speed, just east of Swan Landing with M304's train.

While I have shot Two Medicine Bridge before, who hasn't right, it was hard to resist after a fresh snow fall and an almost matched quartet.

The darkness temporarily succumbs to light, as a locomotive's headlight paints the right-of-way and adjacent hills, while the ETD brings up the rear with its signature flashing red light. The sce... (more)

Aberdeen & Rockfish #400 sits in the railroad's Aberdeen engine house

Westbound BNSF mixed freight train framed by the wooden overpass at Home Valley, Washington. The overpass connects state highway 14 with a campground along the Columbia River. Originally built as ... (more)

The very last rays of the sun just illuminate the river valleys where the Wisconsin River flows into the Mississippi River. The exhaust from the 4 lead units fills the air as they pull their stack... (more)