Winter’s blue hour
Just after sunset, Union Pacific rotary snowplow No. 900082 heads east approaching Wallace, Kansas, on New Year’s Day 2007, during that magical time on a snowy winter... (more)

A closeup of Union Pacific rotary snowplow No. 900082 clearing out a cut as it approaches a snow-clogged Sharon Springs on New Year’s day in 2007. The circular windows are special snow-fighting wi... (more)

Union Pacific rotary snowplow No. 900082 is eastbound approaching a snowbound Sharon Springs, Kansas, on New Year’s day in 2007. Closely following the rotary is another snow train with more locomo... (more)

Union Pacific rotary snowplow No. 900082 is eastbound approaching a snowbound Sharon Springs, Kansas, on New Year’s day in 2007. Trains have been stranded there for several days, and this plow ope... (more)

Union Pacific rotary snowplow No. 900082 is eastbound approaching a snowbound Sharon Springs, Kansas, on New Year’s day in 2007. Trains have been stranded there for several days, and this plow ope... (more)

Snow and ice
During a crew change at Sharon Springs, Kansas, Union Pacific’s rotary snowplow No. 900082 gets serviced and cleaned off of accumulated snow and ice. Trains have been stran... (more)

Union Pacific rotary snowplow No. 900082 and support train clears the Kansas Pacific Line in eastern Colorado. The snow thrown from the rotary reached the edge of Highway 40 where we were standing... (more)

Into the night
Work clearing snow continues after the sun sets as rotary plow No. 900082 heads east out of Wallace, Kansas, on the eve of January 1, 2007. The rotary chews into some fre... (more)

In October 1997, Union Pacific called out rotary snowplow No. 900082 and support train to clear the Kansas Pacific Line in eastern Colorado. The commotion caught the attention of the Cheyenne Coun... (more)

Winter’s battles
During a crew change at Sharon Springs, Kansas, Union Pacific’s rotary snowplow No. 900082 gets serviced and cleaned off of accumulated snow and ice. Trains have been s... (more)

Union Pacific rotary snowplow No. 900082 is eastbound out of Westkan, Kansas, and digs into drifts that cover the tracks on the way to a crew change at Sharon Springs on New Year’s day in 2007.

Union Pacific rotary snowplow No. 900082 is westbound out of Westkan, Kansas, and approaches a snow-clogged Sharon Springs on New Year’s day in 2007.

At the end of a clear but cold day in October 1997, Union Pacific rotary snowplow No. 900082 and support train clears the Kansas Pacific Line in eastern Colorado.

High plains drifter
After a very early blizzard in October 1997, the eastern plains of Colorado were heavily drifted with snow. Union Pacific found that it needed to call the Cheyenne-b... (more)

Can you say buried in snow.